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Trends for 2022: How is data management evolving?

We all know the world is changing in profound ways. In the last few years, we’ve seen businesses, teams, and people all adapting — showing incredible resilience to keep moving forward despite the headwinds. To shed some light on what to expect in 2022 and beyond, let’s look at five major trends with regard to data. We’ve been watching these particular data trends since before the pandemic and seen them gain steam across sectors in the post-pandemic world.

Cut Your Error Resolution Time In Half With Mobile Crash And Error Reporting

Fixing mobile software errors is a collaborative effort. Errors and crashes will be identified throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) by QA, testers, customer support, or users themselves. Unfortunately, there is often a time lag and loss of information as these errors get routed to the programmers who can further triage and resolve.

Top Web Design Tools to Enhance User Experience in 2022

What’s the most crucial part of building a website? Of course, you need to create a stunning user interface (UI) that grabs and retains the attention of new visitors. Also, you need to publish a diverse array of high-quality content to establish your website’s authority and credibility. Then there’s the aspect of brainstorming new marketing strategies to drive organic traffic to your website.

Some websites are just too slow...

Have you ever entered a website and realized how slow things move, you just click a button and you have time to do something else until the requested action is finished. Sometimes I enter on this kind of websites with the idea to purchase their product or service, but when the things move so slow, I start to ask myself, do I really wanna purchase this or shall I find another competitor or website offering the same product.

API Gateway Cache With Kong's Proxy Cache Plugin

In applications built on a system of microservices, developers should always be on the lookout for opportunities to eliminate unnecessary use of resources, such as database queries, network hops or service requests. API gateway cache (or response caching) is an excellent place to start. For many microservices, identical requests sent within a window of time will yield identical responses. For example, consider a request to an Orders API for the list of orders submitted yesterday.

Kuma 1.5.0 and Kong Mesh 1.6.0 Released

We are happy to announce the first release for both Kong Mesh and Kuma in 2022, which is packed with features and improvements, including substantial performance improvements when running at scale. We strongly suggest to upgrade, in order to take advantage of the latest and greatest when it comes to service mesh.

Kong Ingress Controller 2.2 GA With Gateway API Support

Today, Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.2 is now generally available. KIC 2.2 marks a major milestone in the development of the Kong Ingress Controller, as it is the first release containing a marquee feature, Gateway API. This represents a major milestone for Kong as we continue to keep up to date with the upstream community and provide the best customer experience for KIC customers. Gateway API is an open source project managed by the Kubernetes SIG Network community.

Best Practices for Usage-based Billing to Monetize APIs

API monetization is a great way to recoup your investment into your API programs. Without direct monetization, you’re dependent on other sources of capital to grow the program, such as other profit centers or venture capital. If you’re not directly monetizing your APIs, you could be leaving money on the table. This can be especially true if you don’t have any limits in place and lean on the honor system.

How To Check If Your Test Is Ready To Be Run

When starting to work with a tool like Loadero, there can be many unknowns and things that need to be explored, before you can properly achieve your appointed goals for testing. If you are working on the first test, it’s a good idea to follow our step-by-step guide to configuring a test and check out Loadero’s documentation if something is unclear.