An API-first engineering strategy aims to enhance developer experience and productivity by providing an API marketplace with improved discoverability, enabling developers to quickly find the resources they need.
RapidAPI Adds Tool to Make Building APIs Simpler
RapidAPI today added a free RapidAPI Studio offering to its portfolio that makes it easier for developers to build, consume, manage and monetize application programming interfaces (APIs). Wade Wegner, senior vice president and head of product at RapidAPI, said RapidAPI Studio, available in beta, makes it simpler for developers to move between design and development, […]
Kong Previews Application Connectivity Service
Kong Inc., at its online Kong Summit 2020 conference, unfurled Kong Konnect, a cloud service through which developers can leverage application programming interfaces (APIs) and microservices to integrate distributed applications. Available as a private beta, Kong Konnect promises to make it easier for developers to create complex workflows spanning API gateways, Kubernetes Ingress controllers and […]
How API Testing Can Save You Thousands
API testing before launch can mean the difference between a $25 cloud database bill and a $30k bill Usage-based billing is a popular payment model in cloud-based SaaS platforms. The idea is that you only pay for the amount of data your project uses, which is great for companies that have finite metrics on their […]
Camunda Extends Reach of BPM Platform
Camunda, a provider of a business process management (BPM) platform written in Java, this week added support for an open application programming interface (API) to make it easier to integrate its namesake software with applications written in Javascript/Node.js, Python and C#. Company CTO Daniel Mayer said at a time when many organizations are investing in […]
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 […]
GitHub Actions Advances Automation Strategy
GitHub Actions, a set of application programming interfaces (APIs) through which DevOps tools can automate workflows, is now available in beta. Previewed last year at the GitHub Universe event, GitHub Actions is intended to provide not only a way to automate responses to events occurring within a GitHub Repository but also share those workflows across […]
How to Automate an API Security Program Without Adding Staff
In today’s information economy, data is a primary raw material and a source of value to both providers and consumers. For many companies, entire business models are built on the exchange of information. Consider a ride-sharing business that owns no vehicles of its own. What the company does possess, however, is a database of private […]
Kong Applies AI to API Management
Kong today announced today two offerings that rely on artificial intelligence (AI) to automate the management of application programming interfaces (APIs). The first offering, dubbed Kong Brain, collects data from any existing platform to auto generate documentation, which can then be used to automate the configuration of the Kong Enterprise API management platform. The second […]
Axway Extends API Management Reach
With application programming interfaces playing a larger role in the DevOps environment, Axway has added to its API toolkit for developers. The company expanded its AMPLIFY API management platform to include a visual tool for composing and integrating APIs and enhanced its API Manager tool so that it now can be invoked to scale resources […]