Ensuring the security of user data within your app is critical to building trust in your business and contributing to the online safety of customers. Here’s a list of the top 10 essential security mechanisms that Apple offers to up the security posture of your iOS applications. Adopting these technologies and APIs within your products […]
Defining the Database Requirements of Dynamic JAMstack Applications
Zero-configuration hosting solutions such as Zeit Now and Netlify are taking the frontend community by storm due to their ease of use. If we add static site generators such as Gatsby/Next.js/Nuxt.js/Hugo/Jekyll to the mix and deploy our statically generated pages to a content delivery network (CDN), we get something highly desired with minimal effort: distributed […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: Mainframe Fallout from BMC’s Compuware Buy
The acquisition of Compuware this week by rival BMC Software signals that the rate at which mainframe environments are being modernized might not be occurring fast enough to support a vibrant third-party tools provider ecosystem. Both BMC and Compuware were sold to private equity firms in 2018 and 2014, respectively. Thoma Bravo, which acquired Compuware, […]
Tenable Allies With Datadog to Drive DevSecOps
Datadog and Tenable have teamed up to enable organizations to adopt best DevSecOps processes. Tenable CTO Renaud Deraison said his company is making the cybersecurity data it gathers via its Nessus vulnerability scanning software available to the monitoring and analytics service provided by Datadog. The goal is to make it easier for DevOps teams to […]
Red Hat Extends Runtimes Middleware Portfolio
Red Hat has made available the latest instance of Red Hat Runtimes, a suite of lightweight open source components and frameworks that makes it easier to discover the middleware most appropriate for building a specific type of application. James Falkner, product marketing director for Runtimes at Red Hat, said as organizations embrace cloud-native application architectures […]
Survey Sees More Complex API Challenges Ahead
A survey of more than 10,000 developers of application programming interfaces (APIs) suggests there’s lots of room for improving the overall efficiency of API lifecycle management. The survey was conducted by Postman, a provider of a platform for building APIs. Respondents on average said they only spend a quarter of their time (26%) on the […]
Challenges of Designing API-Driven Experiences
As SaaS and mobile application development–and cross-software integration and communication–continue to become increasingly important for organizations across all industries to remain competitive today, APIs play a critical role. In fact, APIs dominate digital experiences today, with an average of 220 new APIs published every month, representing a 30% increase over the previous four years. As […]
WSO2 Advances Microservices Gateway
At the Open Source and Software Development Conference (OSCON), WSO2 this week announced it has updated an open source microservices gateway to make it possible to expose multiple microservices through a single application programming interface (API). Additionally, version 3.0 of the WSO2 API Microgateway now includes the ability to automatically discover microservices and transform legacy […]
Citizen Developers Drive Productivity and Innovation
It was once written that “software is eating the world,” “APIs are eating the world” and “APIs are eating software.” In 2019, a more accurate statement might be, “APIs (or application programming interfaces) fuel the software that’s still eating the world.” In today’s world, there is an ever-constant demand for software, enterprise applications and mobile […]
Adobe Aims to Build Developer Ecosystem
Adobe today outlined an approach to building a developer ecosystem that revolves around open source code, application programming interfaces (APIs) and DevOps processes. Matt Asay, head of developer ecosystem for Adobe, said in the last few years Adobe has increased its reliance on open source code to deliver offerings such as Adobe Experience Manager, a […]