Leading companies use automation both in business and IT to free up employees so they can focus on what they do best.
April 2, 2024

The winning combination for real-time insights: Messaging and event-driven architecture

4 min read - In today’s fast-paced digital economy, businesses are fighting to stay ahead and devise new ways to streamline operations, enhance responsiveness and work with real-time insights. We are now in an era defined by being proactive, rather than reactive. In order to stay ahead, businesses need to enable proactive decision making—and this stems from building an IT infrastructure that provides the foundation for the availability of real-time data. A core part of the solution needed comes from messaging infrastructure and many…

April 1, 2024

How Backstage streamlines software development and increases efficiency

4 min read - Even the best organizations face challenges about the scale and scope of governance and efficient streamlining of their resources across the enterprise. These challenges can lead to a frustrating, fragmented and disjointed developer experience. Meanwhile, different groups of developers within the organization inevitably bring different views about what one centralized code-base and tooling set should look like. It is crucial to align these different, well-meaning standards, while enabling our developers to cross silos and organizational boundaries to gain efficiencies. A…

March 29, 2024

OpenTelemetry vs. Prometheus: You can’t fix what you can’t see

7 min read - Monitoring and optimizing application performance is important for software developers and enterprises at large. The more applications that an enterprise deploys, the more data that exists for collecting and analyzing. Yet, this data isn’t worth much without the right tools for monitoring, optimizing, storing and—crucially—putting the data into context. Organizations can make the most of application data by deploying monitoring and observability solutions that help improve application health by identifying issues before they arise, flagging bottlenecks, distributing network traffic and…

March 29, 2024

GraphQL vs. REST API: What’s the difference?

6 min read - As the conduits through which software components interact and data flows across the internet, APIs are the lifeblood of contemporary web services. API technologies like SOAP (a web services messaging protocol), REST (an architectural style) and GraphQL (a programming language and tool) simplify software development by enabling third-party data and services integration. APIs also enable companies to offer secure service functions and data exchange to employees, business partners, and users. Despite the many types of APIs, debates about two major…

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