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API mocking is a potent concept that has become a crucial part of the software development and testing cycle. It lets you test a range of probable situations and generates required use cases, and thus, contributes significantly to future-proof your software or app. Here, we will know some of the best tools to create REST mock API. But first, let’s learn more about REST API and how API helps developers during the development and testing phase....

The digital situation at the time wasn’t ready for this fast transformation, having many unresolved issues such as low code quality or unqualified cybersecurity culture among employees. And with most businesses moving to operate on a remote basis, they simply gave the go-ahead for hackers to become more active. Statistics show that in 2021 ransomware attacks increased by 100%, causing $20 billion in losses, and the most significant impact was on the healthcare sector....

Do you know what is scary about the stolen laptop of West Virginia-based Coplin Health Systems containing data of 43,000 patients? Or what’s bad in a contractor in Japan losing a USB drive having the personal information of 460,000 residents? The data wasn’t encrypted. So, a bad actor could easily access and sell personal data on the dark web. They learned the lesson the hard way. But that shouldn’t be the case knowing how easy it is to encrypt the data....

When you start working on multiple projects in your local development environment, you’ll often run into dependency issues. Creating virtual environments for each of your projects can help you manage dependencies and project requirements better. To leverage the advantage of virtual environments in Python, let’s learn to create and activate virtual environments. 👩🏽‍💻 What Are Virtual Environments? But why should you use virtual environments? Well, virtual environments allow you to install and use different versions of the same libraries for various projects....

For a Linux-based OS, it usually involves creating user accounts, modifying existing accounts like changing their home directory, default shell, locking/unlocking one or more accounts, and removing user accounts. Before we investigate the commands and processes to carry out these tasks, let’s delve briefly into how user accounts can be classified in Linux. Also, note that unless explicitly specified, given commands will work in most of the common Linux distributions....

Python is a versatile programming language that you can use across applications in automation, web development, data analysis, and more. You can use Python to automate real-world tasks such as monitoring websites, sending emails, and generating passwords. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create a secure and random password generator in Python. Let’s get started… 3 Reasons Why You Should Code a Password Generator in Python Have you ever felt tired of generating secure passwords and keeping track of them?...

EC2 METADATA Information about your instance that can be customized or managed in a running instance is known as instance metadata. Instance metadata categories include hostname, events, and security groups. Additionally, you can access the user data you specified when launching your instance using instance metadata. You may include a short script or specify parameters while configuring your instance. Using user data, you can create generic AMIs and alter the launch-time configuration files....

You can play all by yourself, join public servers, or create a server. Creating a Minecraft server can be tricky, considering you need to configure several settings to get the best experience you want. But, what if you can create a Minecraft server with a single click? You can still customize the server and install mods, but you get the barebones set up in just a few minutes. This article will help you host a Minecraft server using Vultr, one of the best Minecraft server hosting options, in no more than three minutes....

As great as it is for writing, publishing that same content using the WordPress editor becomes challenging. Copying content from Google Docs and adding it to the WordPress editor becomes very frustrating due to some of the properties of the classic editor. You can always use the Gutenberg editor to eliminate some of the issues, but you’ll have to compromise the adaptiveness of the classic editor. Is it all getting a little complicated?...

Redis (Remote Dictionary Service) popularity and usage have gone up in the last few years. Not just for enterprise applications but small to medium too. Even, you can use Redis on WordPress for caching and performance is much better. If interested in learning Redis from scratch, then check out this online course. As a developer or sysadmin for an enterprise application, you should be aware of performing benchmark to know your application performance and capacity....

If your home or office’s ISP has slow nameservers or your server is performing lots of lookups, then you need a local caching DNS server. How will a caching DNS server help me? A caching DNS server works by performing all the DNS queries that your system makes and then saving, or caching, the results in memory. Once that the results are cached in memory any time that you make a duplicate request for a domain, the result will get served almost instantaneously from memory....

Webcam prices are rising due to the higher demand, so it may not be feasible for you to open your wallet for a new webcam. Furthermore, if you need only to use a webcam occasionally, buying a dedicated webcam could be a waste of money. Whatever your reasoning, if you are not ready to shell out cash for a webcam, you can always use your Android phone as a webcam for your PC....

It will help you keep the system properly maintained so that you can utilize it to the fullest and not face frequent crashes, slowdowns, and security risks. But how to ensure your PC is performing optimally? Although you can manually delete unwanted files and apps you don’t use to increase your computer’s performance; it would be a long shot, not to mention a tedious one. Don’t worry; solutions are available to easily clean up and optimize your Windows computer, so it performs at its best....

That said, the world around us is evolving, and so do your customers. As a result, the marketing industry is growing multi-folds, and now we have different marketing forms and strategies, including offline and online. This means you must always be ready with solutions as per user demands and the latest trends to thrive in your business. But, it takes a lot of effort and time if you try to do everything by yourself or manually....

Your device’s performance isn’t as slow as you think because you ignore slowing systems. We want to help you avoid the troubling sensation of a spinning beach ball. Whether you want to clean up your Mac or enhance speed doesn’t matter. You can also optimize memory, manage data, clear malware infestations, remove trash files, or uninstall programs entirely. CleanMyMac software is the right answer for all of these needs. You won’t have to deal with the irritating “Your Disk Is Almost Full” warning notice if you use CleanMyMac....

Those days are long gone when users searched online or retail stores for a game they loved to play on PC or PlayStation. In the past, there were fewer options to choose from. Nowadays, there are thousands of game apps. The practice is also true for any other mobile apps like eCommerce, online teaching, messaging, social media, etc. Today apps reach out to all the places where the target audience is, and the best media is ads....

Creators allow these crème de la crème players to mint tokens at a bargain, or sometimes free of charge, but most importantly, earlier than the rest of the regular community members. According to the 2021 NFT Market Report by Chainalysis, statistics from the OpenSea marketplace showed that users who were privileged enough to join whitelists made over 75.5% profits after selling the NFTs they minted before everyone else. Per the report, while 20% of the user addresses accounted for 80% of sales in the secondary NFT market, 5% of all user addresses accounted for 80% of profits made on secondary NFT sales....

For a very long time, we all have been using Adobe Acrobat PDF for converting important documents into a standard file format for transferring them to companies and businesses. As we move forward and get more technologically advanced, many companies are heading to the needs of people about the shortcomings of Adobe PDF. Movavi PDF Editor is a product of a similar requirement and has given a tough fight to Adobe PDF....

Social listening gives you insight into how your customers think about you and your competition. In this guide, you’ll learn how to leverage social listening to monitor mentions of your brand, product, and competitors on social media channels. Importance of Social Media Social media lets people talk and express their feelings, including their sentiments about the brands they like or hate. There are millions of consumers on social media. Brands that engage with their customers make them feel heard and appreciated....

Hiking is a great way to reduce stress and boost energy. Moreover, spending time with nature can be therapeutic and relax your mind and body. Hence, there is no other way to explore nature than hiking and camping. But at that time, we couldn’t ignore the abruptly changing weather. Furthermore, are you a beginner at camping, backpacking, or hiking? Are you getting lost and overwhelmed by the variety of hiking apps available?...