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Cybersecurity Risks of Direct Database Connectors

Direct database connectors or connections act as a middleperson between an app and a database, allowing the app to read, write, and alter data in the database without an API or other intermediary layer. While these connectors might be simpler to set up than creating and automating an API, making them valuable for database management, they pose several cybersecurity risks that could put your business at risk. Below, learn about these threats and how to mitigate them with an API management platform.

Can Your Test Management Tool Support an Agile Transition?

Many organizations are experiencing a digital transformation to keep pace with the rapidly changing technology landscape and the increasing demand for faster time-to-market. By embracing Agile principles, like collaboration, iterative development, and continuous feedback, you can respond more quickly to changing requirements and market conditions. But these transitions don’t happen overnight.

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Is legacy software putting your organisation in technical debt? The cloud can bail you out

'Legacy' is a kind word when combined with the word 'software.' While it conventionally invokes some sense of grandeur or wisdom, 'outdated' or 'obsolete' are often closer to the truth. With the current economic downturn placing serious pressures on many businesses, for some it has exposed small but long-standing cracks that are now starting to fissure.

[Webinar] Ensuring Quality Digital Experiences: Best Practices and Tools for Modern Software Design

In this video, you’re going to learn exactly how quality and software teams modernized their approach to testing and embedded the QA process into Agile and DevOps teams. Here’s what I’m going to cover in this video: Related playlists: Katalon is a modern and comprehensive software quality management platform. Designed to help software teams test and deliver quality digital products faster, the Katalon Platform comes with ready-to-use capabilities to plan, author, organize, execute and analyze automated tests.

Stop Wasting Your Engineers' Time and Start Improving Your System Stability with Kuma

At first glance, that does not make sense, right? The title suggests you should invest your DevOps/Platform team’s time in introducing a new product that most likely will: Through this article, we’ll show you that even though those initial concerns are justified, the overall benefits that can be realized by adopting a service mesh can outweigh any initial effort and investments.

Audit Logging in Ruby and Rails

An audit log is a documented record of events and activity within an information technology system. Audit logging is critical for application owners and administrators to track activity within their systems. In this post, we'll first dive into what auditing entails and what to consider when audit logging. We'll then explore some options for implementing audit logs, including PaperTrail, Audited, AuditLog, AppSignal, and a custom implementation. Let's get started!