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What can data fabric do for your organization and how does it differ from other data management approaches? This primer will get you up to speed on data fabric essentials and help you explain the basics of this top tech trend. What is a data fabric? A data fabric connects data sets across disparate software systems, whether they’re on-premises or in the cloud, and creates a complete view. It’s both a tool set and an unified architecture layer (also called a virtualized data layer).

APIs, or Application Programming Interfaces, have become an essential component of modern software development. They serve as the communication medium that enables different software components to interact with each other and allows for business data integration. In particular, APIs have become increasingly important for interacting with databases, like Microsoft’s SQL Server, by providing a structured way to read and manipulate data.

In the first article of this series, we introduced Fastify and compared it to Express, highlighting the benefits of switching to Fastify for high-performance web applications. We also explored Fastify's plugin system in detail, showing you how to extend and customize your web applications with reusable modules. In this part, we'll dive deeper into some of Fastify's more advanced concepts.

When I was working at AWS, one of the things that inspired me the most was the company’s founding principles. As articulated by Andy Jassy, then CEO of AWS: AWS laid the foundation of a cloud infrastructure that works like Lego blocks and can be provisioned immediately. As customers’ businesses grew, they could scale effortlessly, paying only for what they needed rather than making large upfront investments.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is the revolutionary technology that powers assistants like Siri and Alexa, self-driving cars, and personalized recommendations on shopping websites. And it’s safe to say that the AI revolution is continuing to gain momentum across industries and the public sector. AI can be particularly transformative in government procurement, streamlining the acquisition process to save time and money.

Ecto can be considered the standard database wrapper and query generator for Elixir, enabling developers to interact with databases efficiently. However, inefficient queries or misconfigurations still can (and will) happen. Addressing these issues is crucial for a smooth user experience.

Application Security (AppSec) is essential to efficient and effective security measures that help address rising security threats to software applications. Here we discuss the principles of Application Security (AppSec), the best practices to enforce it, and the AppSec tools you should use.

Any market-focused firm needs user research to understand user behavior. When building a product, for you to harness the design process, you have to know which techniques and metrics to use. All these can be achieved by conducting user research. It involves understanding how the target audience uses products and discovering design gaps to fulfill their needs. User research is vital for customer-centric product development.

Node.js is a runtime environment that is reliant on the V8 JavaScript engine of Chrome that helps implement the JavaScript code on the server side. Node.js is not a framework or library. Because of its exceptional support of JavaScript and unique features, developers or business owners love Node.js a lot. Node.js helps in giving two-way constant communication between the client-side and server-side. And hence, Node.js breaks down the work pressure between the service provider and the client.

Mobile apps are spreading their roots around the globe, and taking businesses on this digital platform has become an utmost task to compete in the growing digital market. To keep businesses at pace, one of the most appealing and exceptional frameworks is Flutter. Flutter app development tools enable businesses to choose from various tools for developing an application. Each of these tools is promising for making coding agile and simpler for developers.