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Live streaming events have become more of the norm these last years. They give a sense of urgency to your content, boost online interaction between you and your users, and help reach a wider audience. This tutorial will walk through handling video player events by building a live event simulator…

A headless architecture is one that decouples the front-end user interface from the back end so that enterprises can leverage best-of-breed solutions as API-connected microservices. Here’s an analogy: You can buy a cake made with ingredients of the baker’s choice or buy the ingredients that you desire and bake the…

Optimizing media for the web is a must-do to save visitor bandwidth and accelerate page loads as much as feasible. Incorporating the optimization process into an existing development workflow could be cumbersome, however. Cloudinary’s Netlify Build Plugin ensures that all the images slated for delivery on your site are automatically…

The fact that the right tools are a must for success of any undertaking holds especially true for e-commerce. Among them is a Product Information Management (PIM) system for tracking the merchandise that are for sale. As an increasingly popular PIM player, Akeneo comprises many useful features, in particular…

Twenty-eight percent of the companies polled in a 2020 developer survey responded that they’d been leveraging microservices built through the interactions of application programming interfaces (APIs) for three or more years; 61%, for more than a year. Part 1 of this series explains the increasingly popular MACH architecture,…

Building low-code flows with APIs is steadily gaining popularity, and related application platforms abound. Developers would find it a plus to gain the expertise of using low code to implement webhooks, that is, APIs that effectively “hook” features together in different systems. This article shows you how to build…

You’re likely reading this post on a laptop or phone since desktops are no longer the most popular computing device. Nowadays, most IT work occurs beyond physical offices among remote workforces. With cloud-based systems continuing to be ubiquitous, other technologies have emerged, including microservices and headless architecture.  At the forefront…

Since 2017, the global revenue for e-commerce has jumped by 103%, with brands clamoring to build, through immersive visuals, online shopper experiences that replicate in-store visits. To that end, brands must manage a large volume of ever-growing visual assets, as shown by these statistics: From 2019 to 2020, video…

The metaverse is growing rapidly as a leader of Web 3.0 with steady participation and support from consumers. Simultaneously, opportunities for selling digital goods abound, as evidenced by the remarkable sale of a digital-only Gucci bag for $4,115, starkly exceeding what its in-store counterpart priced at $3,400 could earn.