Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

APIs, or application programming interfaces, have become vital components for businesses looking to compete in the digital economy. What draws business operations toward API implementation is the fact that APIs afford businesses the opportunity to get more out of their valuable data. Considering that the worldwide API management market size is projected to reach over $13 billion by 2027, it’s clear that APIs have created a prominent place for themselves in the digital economy.

Memoization is a caching technique to make your Ruby application run more efficiently and faster. In this post, we'll look at the benefits of memoization and when to use it in your Ruby application. We'll also look at some memoization mistakes to avoid. Let's first start by looking at code optimization — what it is and some of the different optimization techniques available.

The mobile testing pyramid is a set of guiding principles that help establish a strategy for unit testing, integration testing, and end-to-end testing for mobile apps. Laurent Sigal shared tips to master the mobile testing pyramid at this year’s Mobile DevOps Summit.

Modern smart technologies are at the heart of the fourth industrial revolution, also known as Industry 4.0, and it holds the promise to completely change the supply chain and manufacturing sectors as we know them. Even if you’re not familiar with the term Industry 4.0 yet, you’re probably aware of the components that form the basis of this new methodology. The Internet of Things (IoT), embedded software, and microservice architecture are making all of this possible.

Errors are unavoidable, but you can always have less of them! In this article, Adebayo Adams walks through how to use type hinting in PHP.

If you look at the backend of a big website coded in CSS, you will encounter many repeating codes. They might be coding for particular text color or text size or even fitting the images to the right size for your screen. The problem comes in when you want to change these codes. Since they are so recurring, they demand global search. Custom properties of CSS variables allow all such values to be stored in one place and can be referenced throughout the document without having to retype it every time.

The Java programming language is a high-level, object-oriented language that enables developers to create robust, reusable code. Java is known for its portability and platform independence, which means that Java code can run on any system that supports the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). Java was originally developed by James Gosling at Sun Microsystems in 1995. Since then, the language has undergone several changes and has become one of the most widely used programming languages in the world.

You use realtime communication every day. It is the simultaneous exchange of information between a sender and a receiver with almost zero latency. Internet, landlines, mobile/cell phones, instant messaging (IM), internet relay chat, videoconferencing, teleconferencing, and robotic telepresence are all examples of realtime communication systems. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a web based realtime chat app using Laravel, Ably and Vue.js.

In this tutorial, learn how to use Python to interact with the Discord API—and build a bot using Flask.