Month: September 2024

Building a Secure Payment App Ecosystem for Smart Payment Terminals

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Key Takeaways The new generation of intelligent payment terminals is increasingly becoming an intrinsic part of the business processes that create value-added applications in different commerce uses from traditional payment processing. Besides, merchants favor such devices owing to their multifunctional ability to operate and manage various functions such as catalog management, order processing, tracking sales, … Read more

State of Webhooks Report 2024

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In 2023, we looked at the top 100 API companies along with internal Svix data to examine how often webhook best practices are implemented across the industry and what type of impact these practices have on the reliability and scalability of webhook systems. This year we looked at the same 100 companies to see if … Read more

SoftBank-backed Delhivery contests metrics in rival Ecom Express’ IPO filing

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Indian logistics firm Delhivery has publicly contested the accuracy of metrics presented by competitor Ecom Express in its draft initial public offering prospectus, a rare confrontation in the lead-up to the latter’s market debut.  Delhivery, which is backed by SoftBank and already publicly listed, claims that Ecom Express has inaccurately represented Delhivery’s business metrics when … Read more

Architecting a Modern Data Lake in a Post-Hadoop World

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The Modern Datalake is one-half data warehouse and one-half data lake and uses object storage for everything. The use of object storage to build a data warehouse is made possible by Open Table Formats (OTFs) like Apache Iceberg, Apache Hudi, and Delta Lake, which are specifications that, once implemented, make it seamless for object storage to be … Read more

Web Scraping: Is C# or JavaScript the Superior Choice?

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A brief understanding of the difference between C# and JavaScript web scraping As a compiled language, C# provides a wealth of libraries and frameworks, such as HtmlAgilityPack, HttpClient, etc., which facilitate the implementation of complex web crawling logic, and the code is concise and efficient, with strong debugging and error handling capabilities. At the same … Read more