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In 2025, APIs continue to evolve, with gRPC and REST being two dominant architectures. Understanding their differences is crucial for modern software development. If you’re at all familiar with APIs, you know that REST APIs are the main API used, particularly when it comes to microservices and their applications. gRPC is a high-performance, binary, and strongly-typed protocol using HTTP/2, while REST is a simpler, text-based, and stateless protocol using HTTP with JSON/XML.

The latest version of Kong Mesh brings an improved provisioning experience and streamlined management of policies — plus user interface enhancements to elevate your experience deploying and managing Kong Mesh. Built on top of Kuma, Kong Mesh is a service mesh designed to provide security, observability, and traffic control across modern, distributed applications.

Info-Tech has released its 2025 Data Quadrant Report, which recognizes the best in technology solutions. Every year, Info-Tech evaluates top-performing software solutions based on authentic user reviews. Evaluating feedback from 3,433 users, this year’s report turned its focus toward business intelligence (BI) and analytics solutions that drive better decision-making for customers.

There can be a number of reasons why you want to do website redesign; maybe attract new users, get higher conversions, improve user experience, or boost revenue. Whatever your reasons are, redesigning your website is always a good way to keep up with the latest design trends and technological advancements. In fact, 75% of users correlate your company's website with your web design.

Basic Authentication is a simple way to secure REST APIs using a username and password. Here's what you need to know.

For our first Release in 2025, we have cooked up more precise performance insights for you and can now, with Automatic Bottleneck Detection, serve you bottlenecks on a silver platter including recipes on how to fix them. Work on several improvements, like Native Worker Support in the PHP Extension, has kept us busy over the winter. A series of instrumentation improvements has chased away the winter blues and is now making way for a spring full of user-friendliness.

Learn how financial institutions can build software that is secure, compliant, and meets the needs of digital-first customers.

Banking applications are the backbone of the modern financial system. They manage billions of transactions daily, secure sensitive user data, and ensure seamless financial operations across the globe. Just as a high-performance car requires rigorous testing before hitting the road to avoid accidents and breakdowns, banking applications must undergo extensive testing to prevent financial losses, security breaches, and operational failures.