The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into effect in mid-2018. It provides guidelines for the processing of data by organizations. Generally, cloud-based companies face unique challenges relating to data security since GDPR compliance is quite complex in the cloud. If your company uses cloud services such as Dropbox and Salesforce, it’s crucial to ensure that […]
“Great API products don’t get built by mistake,” says Rahul Dighe, the API and Platform Product Leader at PayPal. Even if you take into account all the trending principles of API ownership — design-first, API-as-a-Product, governance, KPIs, and more — you still might end up with an API that’s difficult to use. So, what advice would […]
There are many reasons for integrating API lifecycle management into your workflow. For one, waterfall development is on the brink of deprecation. It’s becoming increasingly rare for a project to be developed, released, and left forgotten. It’s also becoming less common for a single team or sole person to work on a production project. Lifecycle API […]
Editor – This post was updated in May 2020 to make the Docker commands comply with current standards and to provide an updated NGINX Plus Dockerfile for Debian and Alpine Linux distributions. Docker is an open platform for building, shipping, and running distributed applications as containers (lightweight, standalone, executable packages of software that include everything needed to run an application). Containers can […]
A product backlog is one of the essential parts of the product development chain, a prioritized list of product features that leads from the company’s and product’s vision through execution to a full release. It is a powerful tool, as it converts a high-level vision into the working details of creating a product. A product […]
No work in the pipeline? It’s a dreadful reality freelancers face, even more so as the world endures the COVID-19 pandemic. Freelancing contracts aren’t guaranteed. Often, they come in waves. Feast or famine is an apt description, even if it is a bit discouraging. Still, it’s not as if freelancers are without options. When paying jobs dry […]
Asthe world’s most popular livestreaming site—and a multibillion dollar Amazon property — Twitch is hardly new. But in recent years the web giant, which rocketed to success showing gamers at play, has started to branch out. As livestreaming setups have become cheaper and watching the web has continued to displace television time, many more types of streamers have joined the […]
Zoom has gained a lot of traction since the COVID19 pandemic. It is famously known for being one of the simplest and most reliable video conference applications. Therefore, I will assess Zoom Product Design (on 6 June 2020 version) in this article according to five key design principles: 1. Usefulness — Good usefulness means the […]
In the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic, we were desperate to have a test — any test — to help sort out which patients with symptoms were infected with the coronavirus. Three months later, we face an entirely different problem: there is a bevy of tests — some for the virus, others for antibodies […]
One of the biggest trends in AI recently has been the creation of machine learning models that can generate the written word with unprecedented fluidity. These programs are game-changers, potentially supercharging computers’ ability to parse and produce language. But something that’s gone largely unnoticed is a secondary trend – a shadow to the first – […]