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Seamless SSO: How to Integrate Okta (SAML 2.0) with DreamFactory

In today’s environment of distributed applications and microservices, unified identity and access management are essential. If you’re working with DreamFactory as your API-platform and want to leverage Okta for Single-Sign-On (SSO) via SAML 2.0, you’re in the right place. This post walks you through setting up Okta as your Identity Provider (IdP) and DreamFactory as your Service Provider (SP) for SAML 2.0-based login.

A Guide to P4 for Visual Studio Plugin | Microsoft Visual Studio Version Control

A Guide to P4 for Visual Studio Plugin (P4VS) | Microsoft Visual Studio Version Control Join Jackie Garcia, Principal Solution Engineer at Perforce Software, for an in-depth guide on using P4 for Visual Studio (P4VS) 2025.2. If you’ve used P4VS in the past, this new update delivers significant performance improvements: large projects load up to 15x faster, unloading is instantaneous, and freeze issues are resolved.

A comprehensive guide to error handling In Node.js

If you've been writing anything more than "Hello world" programs, you are probably familiar with the concept of errors in programming. They are mistakes in your code, often referred to as "bugs", that cause a program to fail or behave unexpectedly. Unlike some languages, such as Go and Rust, where you are forced to interact with potential errors every step of the way, it's possible to get by without a coherent error handling strategy in JavaScript and Node.js.

PHP Benchmarks: 8.5 vs 8.4, 8.3 and 7.4

Each year, right on schedule, a new version of PHP is released at the end of November. So, how much faster is this new release across popular frameworks and applications? Our tests show that, in general, the performance between 8.2, 8.3, 8.4 and 8.5 does not move much for a Laravel, Symfony and WordPress demo application. Moving to the newest PHP version isn’t a magic shortcut to better performance. Not everything is bleak, though.

RBAC for API Tutorial: How to secure your API with RBAC and support Multi-tenant Considerations

In this Tutorial, you’ll learn how to build a secure REST API using Role Based Access Control Here’s what you’ll discover in this step-by-step guide: How to configure database API access (full access, schema access, table access, stored procedures, and functions) How to apply enterprise-grade security with API keys and role-based access control (RBAC) How to support multi-tenant scenarios with RBAC that supports record or row level security.