Software security used to be a feature checklist: encryption, auth, input validation, a few pen-test screenshots. That still matters, but regulated buyers now judge something broader: operational resilience, or in other words, proof your system keeps working through change (patches, dependencies, outages, and multi-year upgrade cycles).
A useful way to frame it: security isn’t a language…
A couple of years ago we released a major update to the RAD Server Technical Guide, bringing you refreshed content, downloadable source code examples for both Delphi and C++Builder, and a comprehensive video series. Since then, we’ve been hard at work incorporating…
Choosing the right database solution can significantly impact the efficiency, security, and scalability of your applications. In his recent “30 For 30” webinar series marking Delphi’s 30th anniversary, Embarcadero Developer Advocate Ian Barker dedicated several…
We’ve just pushed some exciting updates to the official WebStencils demo repository on GitHub. If you’ve been using WebStencils or are curious about integrating HTML templating into your Delphi or C++Builder applications, now’s a great time to take a…
RAD Studio 12.3 brings several improvements to RAD Server that address common pain points and add new functionality. Let’s take a look at what’s new.
Consistent Date/Time Formats Across Requests
One issue that’s now resolved is the inconsistency in…
We continued our webinar with a look at how ridiculously fast and easy it is to create cross-platform apps with RAD Studio and connect to a variety of databases. One of the great strengths of RAD Studio, and particularly Delphi and C++ Builder is how it can use components…
With the launch of RAD Studio 12, RAD Server not only fully integrates the encoding Sqids library, but you can also use it in any other project through the new TSqidsEncoding class available in the System.NetEncoding.Sqids namespace.
Sqids is a small open-source library…
Back in 2019, David I wrote a fantastic guide to RAD Server that has been very popular in helping developers develop new, and migrate older systems towards a RESTful architecture. There have been a number of updates to RAD Server since the guide was originally launched…
If you have watched any of Embarcadero’s online content, attended a RAD Studio webinar, or been to one of the in-person events you will most likely know the wonderful Jim McKeeth. Jim has been the Chief Developer Advocate and Engineer for Embarcadero since July 13th…
If you want to deploy RAD Server on a Linux environment (on-premise or cloud-based) it is mandatory to deploy an instance of InterBase as well because it is the database used by RAD Server to store all its internal data.
This is quite straightforward in most cases, and you…
