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GraphQL is a solid alternative to a traditional REST API, and offering one to your users may be easier than you think. Follow along as Kevin Cunningham builds a GraphQL endpoint with Node.js and MongoDB!

Picture this scenario: you are a Rails developer and have spent the last couple of days developing that awesome feature that everyone is waiting for. It's big and complex, but it went through rigorous testing, so you are confident everything works as it should. There are deadlines to meet, so you deploy. Immediately, all hell breaks loose. Your feature straight up breaks the entire app for some of your users. It's hard to say why. No bugs showed up during testing.

In our final year as undergraduates, we researched how to use human affect and behaviors to anticipate threats posed by other humans. We built a simple website that demonstrated the capabilities of the model we designed.

Like most modern programming languages, Java includes the concept of exceptions to handle both errors and "exceptional events." When an exception occurs in your code, it disrupts the normal instruction logic and abnormally terminates the process. However, with a little foresight and code, you can often handle these exceptions gracefully, allowing your code to continue running and providing insight for tracking down the root cause of the unexpected result.

Case management can mean a lot of different things, depending on the industry you’re working in. A case could be seeing a patient for a doctor, a legal proceeding for a lawyer, a customer request for a customer service team, an investigation for a corporate management team—we could go on and on.

WordPress is a Content Management System (CMS), which is a tool that optimizes the process of producing, storing, and displaying web material. But you already know that, right? Well, how about this then – did you know that WordPress began as an improvement tool to improve the routine typography of day-to-day writing, but it was later adopted as a blogging tool? When it was first released, WordPress was nothing more than a typographic improvement.

Many API developers and companies struggle to find ways to easily set up systems to monetize their APIs. Some are simple but not customizable, some are complex and require massive engineering effort to actually get it all running. To make things easier, Moesif created a feature a few months ago called Billing Meters which gives massive customizability but with a minimal amount of code and engineering effort.

We recently visited New York City for the Transform Finance FinCrime Festival to hear from financial leaders on the state of the anti-money laundering (AML) and Know Your Customer (KYC) landscape. Appian’s very own Guy Mettrick, Financial Services Industry Manager, also had the opportunity to share his thoughts on ensuring compliance while keeping in mind the importance of a customer journey.