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As we all know the Cloud-based systems are becoming the most popular architecture in the software engineering world, and the most famous and beloved Cloud platform among developers is Spring Cloud.
Spring Cloud has some important features which are given in the following parts and the feature part does a specific job:
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are becoming a dominating part of the tech industry by helping businesses achieve goals, drive critical decisions, and create innovative products and services.
In 2022, companies are predicted to have an average of 35 artificial intelligence projects in their organizations.
Modernizing software testing for digital initiatives will elevate testing from a line item on your P&L to something that’s strategically critical going forward.
Software testing has recently become a CIO-level topic of interest. Why? Testing is routinely cited as the #1 bottleneck to modern application delivery.
"What's worse than data silos? Data silos that invent their own query language." - Erik Bernhardsson
In his infamous and widely discussed blog post named ' I don't want to learn your garbage query language,' Erik Bernhardsson expressed what so many other Data Engineers and Analysts related with so strongly. Namely, that he "really [doesn't] like software that invents its own query language" and that he "just [wants his] SQL back."
The fairly short-yet-passionate rant summarized the almost universal experience that technologies that require their own language often produce a whole new different set of complexities.
CloudTalk’s remote cloud-based phone solution is built for call centers, sales, and support centers that need a streamlined call processing system that saves them time and keeps them productive.
CloudTalk offers a slew of call-center-friendly features that make it a must-have call center solution.
However, it’s worth diving deeper into CloudTalk’s offerings to see if it really is the best cloud-based phone solution for your business.
Below we talk about CloudTalk’s pros and cons, the specifics of its best features, and what you can expect to pay for access to its calling tools.
Here’s a deeper dive into some of CloudTalk’s most standout features.
Though CloudTalk offers your standard voicemail tools, call queuing, and call recording abilities, it also throws in a few more advanced features that are nice to have. For instance, you’re able to send your customers automated text and SMS message reminders so that your call workflow goes smoother. This can be a huge long-term time saver.
CloudTalk doesn’t only provide you with customer-facing voice features. Your team is also able to easily engage in conference calls with its conference call scheduler. Do you have people calling your business after hours? CloudTalk lets you create personalized greetings and even music if you need to put customers on hold.
All of CloudTalk’s advanced voice features are great, though if you’re a smaller business you might not have the need for them. In that case, you’d be able to get away with going with a starter plan with more limited access to features.
In the end, the more you pay, the more robust features you have access to. Whether you need specific features or not is definitely something to keep in mind as you consider each of CloudTalk’s calling plans.
If you work at a call center, you know that one of the best ways to save time and send calls where they need to go is through intelligent call routing. With it, you can make sure each of your calls is routed to the right person once it meets a list of pre-set criteria you get to choose. Once you log onto your CloudTalk dashboard, you can easily do this with its Call Flow Designer tool.
To complement its intelligent call routing features, CloudTalk also equips you with an Interactive Voice Response, or IVR, menu. It helps guide each caller through different call routes according to what they need.
Not only that, but you can also program your call flow to choose the best agents for calls depending on their set of skills. It’s easy to see how this would come in handy if you’re working with a varied team with all kinds of strengths and weaknesses.
Sometimes, when you’re making outbound calls, local clients might not be so keen to answer international numbers. CloudTalk allows you to set your call’s ID to a local number. Along with this, CloudTalk lets you set a preferred agent for specific calls from specific customers, and if they aren’t in the office, CloudTalk’s call forwarding feature can send that call to a different mobile or landline number.
Keep in mind that some of the more advanced features can only be accessed through CloudTalk’s higher-tiered plans. If you’re going with its basic plan, for instance, you won’t be able to do things like creating personalized greetings, caller-based routing, or automated call redirection.
Call centers and businesses deal with both inbound and outbound calls. As far as outbound calls go, CloudTalk has made sure to integrate outbound features that make calling easier. These include things like call tagging, automated callbacks, and call notes.
With call notes, your team can jot down notes about each customer they talk to. They’re then saved in the system for future reference. Need to know what type of calls you’re dealing with? Call tagging helps your team clearly categorize each call as they receive them.
As your team makes and ends calls, they can take advantage of CloudTalk’s predictive dialer. It automatically dials the next call in line once a team member is ready to take the next call. Tools like these are ultimately designed to help your team stay productive, whether you’re managing a call center or work in sales.
One of CloudTalk’s most powerful time-saving features, especially for call centers and sales teams, is its power dialer tool. Your call agents might have lots of numbers to get through for the day. Whether it’s because of fatigue, attempting to multitask, or because of pure distractions, they might not always make outbound calls at a sustainable rate.
This is where the power dialer can come in handy. It helps you increase your caller efficiency by automatically dialing the next number on the list without the lag that inevitably comes if you try to do it all manually.
Within the power dialer, once you have a handful of contacts to work through, you can easily create caller campaigns.
These campaigns allow you to set the list of numbers you want the power dialer to auto-dial once you hang up. You can also assign a calling script to each campaign so that your call agents know exactly what to say for each number they call.
Not only that, but you can also create customized surveys within CloudTalk’s dashboard and assign them to specific campaigns. As your call agents work through the power dialer, their dashboard shows them the number of calls made, The number of sales closed (if any), their conversion rate, and the number of contacts left to call.
Once done, your team members can easily export any information they’ve stored as well as call recordings and questionnaire responses. As far as staying organized and efficient goes for call centers, these tools are total must-haves to ensure productivity, keep customers happy, and keep operations flowing smoothly.
One of the best ways to keep track of how your team is performing and handling calls is through statistics and call monitoring. Thankfully, CloudTalk doesn’t fall short in this area.
With CouldTalk, you get access to call stats and also stored stats on individual team members. Agent reporting helps you rank team members in terms of performance to see how well each team member is performing.
However, the information you can gather on both team members and incoming calls isn’t something you have to wait for. With CloudTalk’s real-time dashboard, you can be up to speed on the state of your operations at every step.
A newer perk CloudTalk has managed to include in their set of tools is the Emotion Analytics feature. With it, your call agents can gauge how callers felt after finalizing their phone call. Were they very satisfied? Satisfied? Neutral? Or even very unsatisfied?
These are all one-click determinations your team members can make after each call. Though each agent’s determination of how the call went can be pretty subjective, the tool can still be useful in giving you insight on how best to conduct calls, what scripts to use, or which team members to assign to which tasks.
As an active business, chances are you’re dealing with a few pieces of software. If you’re integrating a calling solution into your workflow, you definitely want to make sure it integrates seamlessly.
CloudTalk readily integrates with big names like Hubspot, Pipedrive, Salesforce, and Zendesk that you might already be using. CloudTalk also integrates easily with any of your ecommerce, help desk, or CRM systems so that you’re able to see and manage data in a centralized manner.
Being able to integrate CloudTalk with the rest of your tech stack also means you won’t have to deal with scattered contacts or scattered pieces of customer information. Your customer contact history along with any notes, chats, or orders are kept in one place.
CloudTalk lets you try out any plan for free for 14 days without having to commit to anything. I highly recommend, especially if you’re seriously considering using CloudTalk, to take advantage of its trial first.
It’s one of the best ways to tell if CloudTalk really meets your expectations and fits into your workflow. Here’s a quick look at its mix of call plans:
CloudTalk’s most basic plan, at $20 per user per month, gives you access to the bare essentials. For $20 per user, you’ll only be able to store call recordings for one month, you won’t be able to set personalized greetings for after-hours calls, and you won’t have access to automated customer text messaging. Your intelligent call routing and productivity features are also pretty limited.
It isn’t until you get to the Essential $25 per user per month tool where you start to get access to more advanced features for intelligent call routing, productivity, and greater integration capabilities.
While CloudTalk isn’t as established as some of its competitors, users are still saying solid things about its product offerings. They love how easy the onboarding process is and how user-friendly the phone system becomes once it’s set up and ready to go.
However, users can sometimes have trouble using its most basic plan, as it comes with limited support features, and sometimes the self-setup process can leave you with some troubleshooting issues. Plus, as many useful features as CloudTalk comes with, in the customer support area it doesn’t quite shine as bright.
Keep this in mind when you’re making your final decision on what cloud-based phone solution to rely on. If you feel like CloudTalk isn’t quite up your alley or doesn’t have the specific calling features you’re after, I’ve listed a few alternatives that might be worth considering at the end of this guide.
Overall CloudTalk is definitely a cloud-based phone system worth considering if you want a solution that won’t cost you too much. Though it does come with its own pros and cons, there are plenty of useful business calling features it offers users once they’re onboarded on an appropriate plan that works for them.
However, if you’re still on the fence about which provider to go with or you want to consider other options, here are a few additional suggestions worth considering:
You could say RingCentral is a leader in the phone solution industry, though Nextiva doesn’t fall far behind. Whether you’re looking for message, video, phone, or contact center systems RingCentral has the tools to set it up. It works great for service providers and small businesses. And even goes as far as providing the tools to allow developers to create their own integrations. Prices can start as low as $19.99 per user per month.
Grasshopper is great for smaller businesses that want straightforward cloud calling solutions like call forwarding, VoIP and WiFi calling, custom greetings, call transfers, and simultaneous call handling. Prices start at $26 a month billed annually.
Nextiva offers a slew of cloud-based phone calling solutions at pretty decent price points. It brings together your phone systems, AI, and automation to help you run your business operations smoothly without dropped calls or troublesome customer support. It was voted the best business phone system by U.S. News two years in a row. Plans start as low as $18.95 per user per month.
Kafka Rebalance happens when a new consumer is either added (joined) into the consumer group or removed (left). It becomes dramatic during application service deployment rollout, as multiple instances restarted at the same time, and rebalance latency significantly increasing. During rebalance, consumers stop processing messages for some period of time, and, as a result, processing of events from a topic happens with some delay. Some business cases could tolerate rebalancing, meanwhile, others require real-time event processing and it's painful to have delays in more than a few seconds. Here we will try to figure out how to decrease rebalance for Kafka-Streams clients (even though some tips will be useful for other Kafka consumer clients as well).
Let's look at one existing use case. We have a micro-service with 45 application instances, that is deployed into Docker Kubernetes with configured up-scaling and down-scaling (based on CPU load). This service consumes a single topic using Kafka-Streams (actually there are more consuming topics, but let's concentrate on a single one), a topic with 180 partitions and traffic is 20000 messages per second. We use Kafka Streams configuration property, num.stream.threads = 4so a single app instance processes 4 partitions in 4 threads (45 instances with 4 threads per each, so actually it means each partition out of 180 is processed by its own thread). As a result, a consumer should handle around 110 messages per second from a single partition. In our case, processing of a single message takes around 5 milliseconds and the stream is stateless (processing - both CPU and IO intensive, some invocations into databases and REST calls to other micro-services).
As businesses envision new business mobile applications and new mobile applications for the consumer market, the hybrid mobile application development environment is front and center. For the best device coverage and user accessibility, businesses must create hybrid mobile applications that will be suitable for iOS and Android devices. This article will focus on four (4) great hybrid mobile application development tools that will help your mobile application development project succeed.
‘In this article, we focus on four great hybrid mobile application development tools including, React Native, jQuery Mobile, Mobile Angular UI and Framework 7.’
Adobe has announced two new Document Cloud APIs that will join existing offerings as part of the company’s Document Services portfolio. The new offering is comprised of a PDF Extract API and Document Generation API both of which are intended to streamline operations on the platform.
If you’re looking for an in-depth Mailshake review to decide if it’s the right tool for your business, this article is for you.
Mailshake is a popular sales management platform for modern sales teams with over 47,000 customers worldwide. It allows you to run impactful outreach campaigns, send timely follow-up emails, and track your conversations with a single dashboard view.
Mailshake is also among the most widely used email outreach tools for PR and link building. It gives marketers and SEOs plenty of features to generate leads and run mass outreach campaigns with persuasive messaging.
But is it the right tool for your business?
To help you answer this question, we’ll evaluate all the key Mailshake features in this article and see if it is indeed the solution you’re looking for.
Mailshake comes packed with email outreach and lead generation features tailored for SEO for content marketers, PR companies, and sales professionals.
It significantly improves your response and conversion rates by ensuring that your campaigns are different from the usual spammy outreach emails these days.
Let’s take a close look at some of Mailshake’s core features to see how it can help you start more conversations and close more deals.
Email deliverability is one of the biggest challenges in running successful mass outreach campaigns.
Most bulk email campaigns either land in the recipients’ spam folder or don’t get delivered at all because of bulk email restrictions.
This is where Mailshake is different from other tools.
It uses an intelligent email scheduling system that sends thousands of emails while ensuring deliverability. Every email is sent after a fixed gap, ensuring that your emails are not marked as spam and delivered right to the recipient’s inbox folder as one-to-one emails.
Depending on your plan, Mailshake allows you to send up to 10,000 emails per outreach campaign. You can spread your campaigns over several days or weeks to ensure that emails are sent in a natural pattern.
Similarly, you can also schedule your email campaigns to send them when your recipients are the most likely to respond.
Creating a mail merge in Mailshake helps you save time while ensuring that your participants receive personalized one-on-one emails.
Mail merge is an email campaign type in which you send the message to an extensive email list but personalize it so that every recipient receives it individually.
You can set up a mail merge in Mailshake by adding the recipients manually one by one or by uploading a CSV file of your contact database with the necessary customer details arranged in separate columns.
If your CSV file has incomplete information for some of your recipients, you can manually add it once you upload it to Mailshake.
With the right customer information, you can completely personalize your email campaigns and make them look as if they were designed separately for every customer.
Let’s say you have the following information of your leads arranged in separate columns in a CSV file.
You can use this information to personalize your messages using tags in Mailshake.
You can insert the relevant tags in your email messages from the Insert menu in your email editor. You can also manually add more personalization to each recipient’s email before you push your campaign live.
You can also set conditions to use replacement text if specific information is not available for a customer.
For example, you can use “there” if you don’t have a person’s name in your email database for it to say “Hi there,” or change it to just say “Hello.”
This makes your cold outreach emails much more credible and considerably increases your campaign response rates.
Whether you’re running an outreach campaign for link building, PR, or lead generation, follow-ups are critical to your success.
But following up in mass email campaigns is hard to manage because of the number of recipients. To make this task simpler, Mailshake helps you configure automated follow-ups based on various conditions.
Instead of manually tracking the users who haven’t responded to your initial email, you can set an automatic follow-up email after a specific duration.
For example, you could configure follow-up emails to be sent three days after the initial email if there’s no response from a lead.
You can also use additional qualifying conditions like excluding the leads from your follow-up sequence who’ve opened your email or clicked on a specific link.
Similarly, you could also use link-tracking for triggering follow-ups.
Again, you have complete control over when a follow-up email is sent.
Mailshake gives you a handful of proven and tested follow-up email scripts for various business goals to improve your response rate. Instead of writing a follow-up email from scratch, you can simply use one of the scripts and modify them before sending (if needed.)
You can also set up tasks within your sales sequences to connect with prospects over the phone and on social media. Once you or someone from your team follow-up on call, you can mark them as completed to continue the automated sequence.
Overall, Mailshake offers some pretty impressive and robust email follow-up capabilities that save your time and help you close more leads faster.
Lead catcher is a lead management feature in Mailshake that allows you to interact with your leads, assign them to your team members, and perform several other lead management tasks.
It is enabled by default in all your outreach campaigns. Once a recipient responds to your emails, Mailshake marks them as a lead.
This means all your follow-up sequences are immediately stopped for the lead, and you decide how to take the communication forward.
Lead catcher allows you to define the exact criteria to qualify a contact as a lead using multiple conditions.
You decide who on your team will communicate with the lead and the exact conditions contacts need to fulfill to qualify as a lead.
Lead Catcher organizes all your leads in a single dashboard view and gives you controls to decide what happens to each lead quickly.
From the same interface, you can mark leads as “won,” “lost,” or “ignored.” Or assign the lead to another team member for following up.
You get the complete history of your communication with a lead in a thread format that allows you to quickly move back and forth if you need any information.
You can also use the same interface to send new emails to a lead and mark them as “won” in your database.
Once you’re done managing a lead, Lead Catcher immediately moves you to the next lead with all the information we’ve just discussed.
For busy sales managers and marketers running large-scale link-building campaigns, Lead Catcher is a time-saver that provides them all the information they need when interacting with leads.
Mailshake is already a powerful tool that offers you all the necessary lead management and follow-up features. But it becomes even more useful when you integrate it with the various CRMs or marketing and data management applications.
Mailshake directly integrates with CRMs like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Pipedrive. This means you can run your complete outreach campaigns and update your lead status by integrating with your favorite CRMs.
Apart from these apps, Mailshake supports 1000+ integrations via Zapier, including Google Sheets, Slack, Outlook, Facebook, Drift, LinkedIn, Calendly, and many other applications.
New integrations are also available from time to time, making it easier for users to move data between different applications to streamline the lead generation process.
Mailshake offers two paid subscription plans for different types of users. Each plan comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.
However, there’s no free plan or free trial with Mailshake. You need to pay upfront to start using it.
Here’s what Mailshake’s plans cost:
The Email Outreach plan costs $59 per month per user with monthly billing. The Sales Engagement plan costs $99 per month per user with monthly billing.
But if you switch to annual billing, you can get the Email Outreach plan for $44/month per user and the Sales Engagement plan for $75/month per user, saving you a significant amount of money over twelve months.
Still, it’s an expensive option when compared with some of the other mainstream outreach products.
Let’s explore each of these plans in more detail and see what value they offer for your money.
The Email Outreach plan is designed for SEO companies and agencies that primarily use Mailshake for link building and PR campaigns.
It provides you all the necessary email outreach features like email personalization, follow-up automation, Lead Catcher, and custom email address integration. You also get up to 5000 emails per campaign and 5000 monthly list cleaning credits.
There are no phone calling or social selling features in this plan.
The Sales Engagement plan is designed for the more traditional sales teams that rely on both email and phone calls to connect and follow up with leads.
It offers everything in the Email Outreach plan and several calling features such as the DialShake US calling number and unlimited calls within the US and Canada.
You also get up to 10,000 email prospects per campaign with 10,000 list cleaning credits. The plan also includes social selling and custom tasks in your Mailshake account.
A detailed analysis of some of the most popular SaaS review sites, discussion forums, and social media platforms such as LinkedIn and Twitter shows that Mailshake has a strong reputation among sales professionals, experienced SEO managers, and PR strategists.
Most users are impressed by its intuitive interface and robust features that simplify creating and managing outreach campaigns.
However, some users have pointed out that Mailshake’s custom support lacks urgency and takes unnecessarily long to resolve issues.
Some customers also pointed out problems in third-party integrations.
But these mainly were isolated cases. The general perception about the product is quite favorable, with people strongly recommending it for all kinds of outreach campaigns.
As you’ve seen in this detailed review, there’s a lot to like about Mailshake. Its robust lead management, automation, and communication features make it an ideal product for sales professionals, SEO managers, and PR experts.
We strongly recommend it for companies looking to scale their lead generation campaigns and automating their workflows for faster and more efficient lead management.
However, for beginner SEOs or companies with budget limitations, Mailshake might not be the most suitable option for now.
Blogs are part of our lives, and we turn to them for information about academics, the best college essay writing service around, entertainment, religion, and spirituality. However, it wasn’t always so; blogs were once dicey...
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I am using Win 10 pro 19043.1110. For some reason earlier this year, the right click /Eject option has gone missing for all my portable usb flash thumb drives showing on My Computer / This PC. It doesn't matter which front or rear ports the usb is connected to (usb2 or usb3). I am talking about small usb flash drives not usb HD mass storage devices.
I have checked in Disk management and quick removal is selected. I have also reinstalled windows keeping files and programmes. Still the same problem. The safely remove usb option is available in the system tray and also under devices and printers but its missing by right clicking the usb in This PC.
Is there any way I can get the right click /Eject option back? Your advice would be appreciated.
Kind regards
Chris
Entrepreneurs, CEOs, CTOs, and IT leaders are generally tasked with choosing the ideal SaaS tech stack. Ultimately, this will be a deal-breaker in the success of your application. You can have a fantastic idea, marketing, and sales team. However, if your SaaS tech stack doesn’t scale, evolve, and continuously transform, you might be ending refactoring your entire SaaS web application every other year. This approach usually results in a waste of time, resources, and money.
A quick look at SaaS communities and questions usually arise about what would constitute the perfect SaaS technology stack. The right answer to this question would be one that includes the combination of language and tools that get the job done.
The first word that comes into our mind when you say software development is ‘Java’. It has had such an impact on the modern tech world that practically revolves around it. It is undeniable that cross-browser testing is used to strengthen the overall user experience of the application. For a Java developer, it is undoubtedly important to focus on Java testing frameworks to enhance their testing skills.
Knowledge of testing frameworks is significant for a full-stack or an expert Java developer. Java is the choice of most developers because of its platform independence and ease of developing advanced web and mobile applications.
Today, any beginner can make a website in a few hours. In this, one is often helped by unique systems for creating and managing websites. WordPress has been one of the most popular for many...
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In this post, we will set up OpenShift Environment Variables on a deployment configuration following a step-by-step approach.
Environment variables are a key component in any production-level application. Many times, we want to control the runtime behavior of an application using environment variables. Common environment variables can be database credentials, feature toggle flags, and so on.
To teach myself Kubernetes in general and controllers in particular, I previously developed one in Java. This week, I decided to do the same in Rust by following the same steps I did.
The guiding principle is creating a Kubernetes controller that watches pods' lifecycle and injects a sidecar into them. When Kubernetes schedules the pod, the controller schedules the sidecar; when it deletes the former, it deletes the latter as well.
In December 2020, a vulnerability in the Bouncy Castle cryptographic library was publicly revealed. This vulnerability was discovered in October and fixed in November 2020. However, the nature of supply chain vulnerabilities means that many organizations remain vulnerable months later.
The Bouncy Castle vulnerability was a flaw in the implementation of the OpenBSDBcrypt.doCheckPassword() function. The purpose of this function is to compare the hash of a password submitted during user authentication with a hash stored by the system. If these hashes match, then the user authenticates successfully.
From hyperautomation to the remote-work revolution, the post-COVID world is changing at blazing speed and organizations everywhere are struggling to keep up.
In the financial services industry, for example, the largest wealth and asset managers are struggling to keep a lid on rising operating costs amid fast-changing regulations and customer expectations. The volatility is like a pressure cooker that’s driving demand for business process automation in an industry traditionally slow to embrace digital.
