The best practices of web development always move. As soon as a best practice seems solid for one team or one role, the conditions and pressures that led to the best practice’s rise will change again. And then the best Continue reading Decoupled Architectures: Cutting-Edge Contradictions in the 2020s
Databases have become essential backend storage tools for nearly every application imaginable. If your application contains data that needs to be accessed, you’ll need a database to store and retrieve it quickly. A database management system (DBMS) is software designed Continue reading Understanding Database Technology: SQLite vs MySQL
With its growing market share, WordPress has been — and continues to be — the most popular CMS to create, manage, and develop websites. Still, WordPress represents just a fraction of development done on the web. What about all the Continue reading A New Era Has Begun: Kinsta Is the Cloud Platform for the Modern Developer
React UI component libraries are useful tools to help you create stunning interfaces for your React-based software applications and websites. Although you can write your own code for each feature or functionality you want to include in your design, using Continue reading React UI Components Libraries: Our Top Picks for 2022
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Many websites and applications commonly store their data in a database. Reading and writing data from a database can significantly affect an application’s latency. It’s important to reduce latency as much as possible, as users expect fast and responsive applications, Continue reading Should You Use an In-Memory Database?
Table-stakes security often means a checklist to get the security team off the back of the web team. This approach is weak from every perspective: a frustrating web and security collaboration process, vulnerability to excessive spending with security vendors and Continue reading Threat Modeling is Table Stakes for Security
Cyber Weekend is just around the corner, and it’s expected to be another busy one, with holiday eCommerce sales projected to reach $235 billion—an increase of more than 15% from 2021! This anticipated surge in online shopping represents a massive Continue reading Want Better Holiday Sales? Prep for Cyber Weekend Now
At WP Engine, our Product & Engineering organization applies a continuous improvement process to maintain an elite level of software development and delivery performance. This includes a laser focus on agility, represented by DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) metrics for Continue reading Empowering Engineers Through Product-first Platforms
Small agencies, freelance designers, and lean creative teams often share a similar, bumpy trajectory that can swing from “we have way too much work to meet our deadlines,” to “we don’t have enough projects to pay the bills.” Adding fuel Continue reading How to Use Flywheel Growth Suite to the Fullest
MariaDB is a free database server that provides data access using a structured query language (SQL). It offers security features like passwords, role-based access control, and much more to safeguard your data. To deploy MariaDB and grant data access to Continue reading Contain Your Data: Run MariaDB with Docker
MySQL is one of today’s most widely used relational database management systems (RDBMS). It’s a robust database platform that allows for creating and managing scalable databases, mainly using a structured query language (SQL). The MySQL server is the environment in Continue reading How To List MySQL Databases (Step-by-Step Code Tutorial)
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The WordPress.com team is always working on new design ideas to bring your website to life. Below you’ll find the four newest themes that we’ve added to our library, with beautiful options for food-based businesses, podcasts, and bloggers. To install Continue reading Hot Off the Press: New WordPress.com Themes for October 2022
WordPress has become the most used content management system (CMS) due in no small part to its application programming interface (API). The WordPress REST API enables WordPress to “talk” with other applications written in various languages — including Python. Python is Continue reading Polish Your Python Chops by Connecting Your App with WordPress
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Just a few years ago, designers could create a single rigid website version and call it a day. That’s no longer the case. Now, they need to take into account innumerable smartphones, wearables, tablets, and other smart devices — and Continue reading Responsive vs Adaptive: How To Choose the Right Design Approach
The amount of customer data at marketers’ disposal can range from basic email addresses to extensive files that include names, birthdays, credit card numbers, interests, preferences and more. But regardless of the data volume marketers have, nobody values it more Continue reading Marketers’ Fast Track to Thinking Like a Security Expert
You’re mistaken if you believe that your website or online business can succeed without proper website traffic assessments and brand competition analysis. But how can you do that? Enter website traffic analysis tools. Want to see how your site is Continue reading Top 15 Tools for Effective Website Traffic Analysis
As any developer can attest, code is never ready for production after the first draft. One key part of the development process is debugging — removing or changing all parts of your code that don’t work. The Xdebug extension for Continue reading How Xdebug Can Help You Become a Better WordPress Developer