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Heavy Weights

Importance of Load Testing for Real-World Applications

In the past decade, the digital footprint of Indian citizens across the world wide web has increased manifold, with people adopting smartphones in huge numbers.  App-based solutions and services are now the hype. Want a ride, call Uber. Want some food delivered, just Swiggy it. Need some groceries, place an order on Bigbasket, and within 24 hours, ...
API Development Guide

API development:  Ultimate Guide to Developing Robust APIs

When developing applications, one of the critical things you ought to remember is that your application should have the capability of synergizing with other applications over a device to access their functionalities. This is what APIs are for. API or Application Programming Interface can be thought of as the connectors between different pieces of code. They essentially ...
serverless

Advantages and Pitfalls of Serverless Architecture

There are many definitions of what serverless is. NIST or the National Institute of Standards and Technology defines serverless as providing resource pooling, rapid elasticity, and measured service in an opaque manner to the end-user. On the other hand, Knative has its definition of the same. Their understanding of serverless is based upon the outcome. If ...