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How to test and monitor your APIs with Playwright

You probably know that Microsoft’s Playwright is a solid tool for end-to-end testing, enabling you to control headless browsers and check essential user flows. But did you know that you can also use Playwright for API testing? If you didn’t, then this guide is for you. In this post, we’ll explore how Playwright can be used to test a GraphQL API (but don’t worry if you’re using REST; Playwright can handle any HTTP-based API).

Latency vs. Jitter: Understanding Network Metrics

As you set out to optimize and understand your network, two essential metrics you'll need to master are latency and jitter. While they might seem similar at first glance, both latency and jitter represent distinct aspects of how data travels across a network, influencing everything from seamless VoIP calls and smooth video streaming to immersive online gaming and responsive cloud applications.

MSP Sales Models: Reselling and Selling FinOps services

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are definitely in a competitive market. If you’re checking out Anodot, there’s a good chance you’re an MSP looking for a partner who can provide the right mix of tools and services to help you stand out to potential prospects. However, landing the client is only the start of the sales cycle. So, how can MSPs keep increasing profits while maintaining the quality that initially won them that business?

Best Practices to Improve Project Management

Project management is difficult work that requires a careful balance of strategy, operation, and control. The market for project management software is expanding, but adoption rates reveal another story that it is on a critical path. Almost 75% of businesses still use outdated project management methodologies during product development, such as spreadsheets or manual procedures, which hampers their capacity to complete projects successfully. Relying on obsolete tools presents a range of problems.

Cyber resilience: What it is & why it's important

In today’s age of high-profile data breaches, supply chain attacks, and aging legacy software, smart organizations understand it’s no longer a matter of whether their systems will be compromised but when it will happen next. In fact, one recent study found that 68% of organizations experienced a cyberattack within the last 12 months (experiencing an attack doesn’t necessarily mean it was successful).

How to Build a Proactive Security Strategy Using Threat Intelligence

Proactive and reactive cybersecurity methods work hand in hand to shield your organization from various threat actors. Both protect your sensitive information from malicious parties. However, you must pay extra attention to your proactive security strategy. The devil you don't know is more dangerous than the devil you know. Concentrating on discovering unknown threats and stopping attacks before they happen can spare you from potentially eye-watering data breaches. To ensure your proactive cybersecurity strategy works like a charm, maximize threat intelligence.

Roommate Finders: The Future of Roommate Living

In an era where technology continues to reshape every aspect of our lives, the way we find and choose our roommates is no exception. Gone are the days when people had to rely on word-of-mouth, bulletin board ads, or awkward interviews with strangers who responded to a newspaper listing. Today, online roommate finders like SpareRoom have revolutionized the roommate living landscape, offering a streamlined, safe, and efficient way to connect with compatible living partners. Let's explore how these platforms are changing the game and what the future of roommate living might look like.

The Importance of Social Media Monitoring: Strategies, Benefits, and Best Practices

Customers often refer to your brand using variations of your name, specific products, and hashtags, rather than just your official handle. Tracking these mentions across numerous conversations on multiple social channels can be incredibly time-consuming. However, effectively leveraging social media requires managing these mentions. If you find yourself spending more time on complex manual searches for brand mentions than engaging with customers, you need a social media monitoring strategy.

Browser Automation: A Primer For Beginners

Browser automation refers to the process of automating the control of a web browser to perform tasks such as interacting with websites, filling out forms, and most importantly, extracting data. This article serves as a guide for those starting with browser automation, highlighting its components, the advantages of using cloud-based browsers, and the challenges that modern web security poses.