When building web applications, unit testing your individual components is certainly important. However, end-to-end testing provides assurance that the final user experience of your components chained together matches the expected behavior. Testing web application behavior locally in your browser can be helpful, but this approach isn’t efficient or reliable, especially as your application grows more complex.

Ideally, end-to-end tests in your browser are automated and integrated into your CI pipeline. Every time you commit a code change, your tests will run. Passing tests gives you the confidence that the application — as your end users experience it — behaves as expected.

Compliance Is Possible with the Right Provider

Because today’s companies operate in the cloud, they can reach a global audience with ease. At any given moment, you could have customers from Indiana, Indonesia, and Ireland using your services or purchasing your products. With such a widespread customer base, your business data will inevitably cross borders. What does this mean for data privacy, protection, and compliance?

If your company deals with customers on a global — or at the very least, multi-national — scale, then understanding the concept of data residency is essential. Data residency deals with the laws and regulations that dictate where data must be stored and managed....

Modern applications have an unceasing buzz of user activity and data flows. Users send a flurry of one-click reactions to social media posts. Wearable tech and other IoT sensors work nonstop to transmit event data from their environments. Meanwhile, customers on e-commerce sites perform shopping cart actions or product searches which can bring immediate impact to operations. Today’s software organizations need the ability to process and respond to this rich stream of real-time data.

That’s why they adopt an event-driven architecture (EDA) for their applications.

In today’s fast-paced digital world, companies are looking for ways to securely expose their APIs and microservices to the internet. MuleSoft Anypoint Flex Gateway is a powerful solution that solves this problem.

Let's walk through deploying the Anypoint Flex Gateway on Heroku in a few straightforward steps. You'll learn how to connect your private APIs and microservices on the Heroku platform through the Anypoint Flex Gateway and the Anypoint API Manager, without the hassle of managing infrastructure. Get ready to unlock the potential of this potent pairing and, in the future, integrate it with Salesforce.

Introduction

The Heroku CLI is an incredible tool. It’s simple, extendable, and allows you to interact with all the Heroku functionality you depend on day to day. For this reason, it’s incredibly important for us to keep it up to date. Today, we're excited to highlight a major upgrade with the release of Heroku CLI v9.0.0, designed to streamline contributions, building, and iteration processes through the powerful oclif platform.

What's New in Version 9.0.0?

Version 9.0.0 focuses on architectural improvements. Here's what you need to know:

• oclif Platform: All core CLI commands are built on the oclif platform. Previously, many commands were built using a pre-oclif legacy...