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Modern apps, dashboards, and integrations need SQL Server data over HTTP. The safest pattern in 2025 is: expose only what you intend via read-only views, front it with a managed API layer (authn/authz, rate limits, logging), and publish documented REST endpoints. This guide shows a practical, production-ready path with DreamFactory.

At ThoughtSpot, we've long understood that a robust semantic layer is the linchpin of a successful data strategy. Our Agentic Analytics Platform is built on a semantic foundation that makes it possible for anyone to get trusted, instant answers from data using simple natural language. However, the industry has struggled with a foundational challenge for years: a lack of a common semantic standard.

The climate crisis is the defining challenge of our time, and cities are on the frontlines. Home to more than half of the world’s population, cities are both major contributors to global emissions and critical drivers of climate solutions. Delivering cleaner air, healthier communities, and resilient infrastructure requires not just commitment, but the power of data to guide and accelerate action.

Full stack session recordings capture everything that matters without impacting your application performance or adding unnecessary overhead. Traditional continuous recording tools and APM platforms take the same brute-force approach: capture everything. Every session, every log, every metric, whether you need it or not. That flood of data creates its own problems: high storage costs, constant filtering and sampling, and hours wasted sifting for the signal inside the noise.

In the current ecosystem of web and mobile apps, APIs are the ‘glue’ that connects clients and servers. We find two key paradigms of APIs: REST vs GraphQL, which have emerged as the primary methods of communicating data between applications. Each has strengths and weaknesses, and that choice is significant, as each has dramatic implications for the performance, scalability, and flexibility of your applications.

When it comes to accessibility, there are a lot of vendors and each is unique and credible in its own way.

Long iOS build times are one of the biggest productivity drains for mobile teams. Developers lose hours waiting for builds to finish while CI pipelines burn resources recompiling code that hasn’t changed. With Xcode 26, Apple introduced Compilation Caching, a major leap forward that reuses compiled outputs instead of rebuilding them from scratch.

Testing software applications has grown in complexity as development teams begin adopting agile methodologies and regularly practicing continuous integration. The management of test cases, defect tracking, and comprehensive test coverage now requires extensive test management practices, along with the appropriate toolset. Open source test management tools provide substantial value without the cost of licensing provided by commercial products.

Integrations are everywhere, and data-sharing between systems is more vital than ever. Software applications use application programming interfaces (APIs) to ensure all moving parts work together. A REST API follows specific guidelines that dictate how applications or devices connect and communicate with one another to make integrations simple and scalable.

It’s annual planning season! Across the company, leaders are setting targets, scoping new initiatives, and shaping the roadmap for the year ahead. But if you’ve been through this before, you know how quickly plans lose relevance. Goals that looked clear on paper become harder to measure in practice, teams lose sight of the bigger picture, and the assumptions you made about resources and impact rarely hold up.