WHY IT MATTERS: Digital Transformation

The best protection against being hacked is well-informed developers. Make your development team into security experts today.

APM continues to be critical for modern, multicloud observability. Read the report where Gartner defines the market as "software that enables the observation of application behaviour and its infrastructure dependencies, users, and business key performance indicators (KPIs) throughout the application’s life cycle," and see why we’re positioned highest and furthest in both Completeness of Vision & Ability to Execute.

Josh Evans talks about the chaotic and vibrant world of microservices at Netflix. He starts with the basics- the anatomy of a microservice, the challenges around distributed systems, and the benefits. Then he builds on that foundation exploring the cultural, architectural, and operational methods that lead to microservice mastery.

“Self-hosting” is a practice that pretty much describes itself: running your own internet services, typically on hardware you own and have at home. This contrasts with relying on products from large tech companies, which the user has no direct involvement in. A self-hoster controls it all, from the hardware used to the configuration of the software.

Visual editors for HTML, CSS, and SVG: Customize, curate, and publish designs faster than ever.

Performance chapter of the 2021 Web Almanac covering Core Web Vitals (Largest Contentful Paint, Cumulative Layout Shift, First Input Delay) as well as First Contentful Paint and Time to First Byte

The goal of the Web Almanac’s Structured Data chapter is to explore how structured data is currently being used across the web. We hope that this will provide insight into the landscape, the challenges, and the opportunities at hand.

Choose more than one vendor solution, if necessary. Vendors in the enterprise search functionality segment have cognitive search solutions that apply to the widest number of use cases and include website search and digital commerce. However, the actual features offered by these vendors vary greatly and may not be the best choice for digital commerce. For example, some vendors in the digital commerce functionality segment have sophisticated tools for merchandising that many more general-purpose solutions lack. It is reasonable and not uncommon for enterprises to have more than one cognitive search solution depending on use cases, data sources, content types, and other factors.

Application leaders can not meet market needs or business objectives with monolithic digital experience platforms and must update tech stacks, decompose monoliths and deliver task-oriented capabilities. To future-proof the stack, a composable DXP must be used to deliver composable user experiences.

API usage, and the need to govern it, is increasing rapidly driven by remote working, platforms, ecosystems, innovations, digital transformations and regulations. Application leaders should use this Magic Quadrant to find the right API life cycle management vendor for their organization’s needs.

This talk describes experiences with building and deploying Piranha, an automated code refactoring tool to delete code corresponding to stale feature flags. The Piranha workflow has been used continuously at Uber since early 2018 to help delete more than 4K stale flags (> 200KLoC) across Java, ObjectiveC, and Swift code.

Our toolkit will introduce you to the market’s landscape of new eCommerce tools and highlight the opportunities for your store.

Find your path through the stages of digital transformation:

1. Getting started - Successful projects are used as proof of concept to convince team leaders to champion further change.
2. Evolving and unifying - Discussions about digital strategy become more formal as organizations begin to define their path to transformation.
3. Transformation into a digital-first organization - Digital transformation isn’t an endpoint — it’s the process that takes you from a slowly evolving traditional organization to an agile, tech-enabled business.

20 years ago Apple seized music, and turned it into a lever for its broader business. It failed to do the same to TV, and lost control of music, but won massively in games, where it now makes more money than the entire global digital music industry. Now, perhaps, it’s looking at advertising.

In this e-book, we'll answer all of the questions you have about customer data platforms and help you to understand the value that a CDP can bring to your business. You will also learn specifically how a CDP can increase customer lifetime value and other key metrics.

Explore the "30 Best SaaS Pitch Deck Collection" base on Airtable.

Key Takeaways: Forrester's research uncovered a market in which Adobe and Salesforce are Leaders; commercetools, Oracle, Intershop Communications, Insite, BigCommerce, SAP, and Sana Commerce are Strong Performers; and Apttus, Elastic Path Software, Unilog Content Solutions, and Episerver are Contenders.

Integration Capability And Business User Experience Are Key Differentiators: As monolithic technology becomes outdated and less effective, the providers that lead the pack demonstrate deep, prebuilt integrations and strong business user tooling. Vendors that deliver this value position themselves to successfully help their clients grow revenue, deepen customer loyalty, and expand into new markets.

Key Takeaways: Forrester's research uncovered a market in which Adobe, Salesforce, and commercetools are Leaders; SAP, BigCommerce, Kibo Commerce, and Oracle are Strong Performers; Episerver and Elastic Path Software are Contenders; and Sitecore is a Challenger.

Business User Experience Drives Key Differentiators

As monolithic technology becomes outdated and less appealing to merchants, the providers that lead the pack will demonstrate deep integrations with both owned and competitive solutions, as well as business user tooling that unifies controls across those solutions and streamlines workflows. Vendors that deliver this value position themselves to successfully help their clients grow revenue, deepen customer loyalty, and expand into new markets.

Check out this showcase of some of the best, open source headless CMSes. This is community-drive so be sure to submit your favorite CMS today!

Check out this showcase of some of the best, open source static site generators. This is community-drive so be sure to submit your favorite today!

Lighthouse now supports performance budgets. This feature, LightWallet, can be set up in under five minutes and provides feedvack on the size and quantity of page resources.

The C4 model was created as a way to help software development teams describe and communicate software architecture, both during up-front design sessions and when retrospectively documenting an existing codebase. It's a way to create maps of your code, at various levels of detail, in the same way you would use something like Google Maps to zoom in and out of an area you are interested in.

An in-depth guide to understanding and optimizing your recurring revenue pricing strategy.

Your website is your online store-front open 24/7. Learn how to come up with a winning website that attracts visitors and turns them into customers.

This eBook will bring you up to speed on all things “programmatic,” including: the key actors and various ad formats that continue to unfold; different types of technological platforms and associated privacy considerations; and, measurement and pricing strategies that can help you to get ahead of your competition.