By Milecia McG
You know that your website is hosted on a server, whether it’s in the cloud or in that cold closet on the other side of the office. Servers can only handle so much traffic before all of their resources are used up. Once those resources are at max capacity, users will have issues with the website and it will run extremely slow or crash. Before you get to that situation, consider doing some load testing.
By Vinod Chandru
The modern web application is no longer a self-contained hub for the distribution of its own data. Once repositories of their own unique resources, web apps have become a mesh of internal and external data and other information, all carefully intertwined and relying on one another to fulfill their purposes. Applications, both software and hardware, increasingly rely on external APIs to pipe data into their own APIs before being referenced, mutated, or checked against, ultimately providing the application's users with what they seek.
