Android Apps Must Let Users Delete Data ¦ RISC-V in the Data Center
In this week’s #TheLongView: Google forces apps to make deleting users’ data easier, and the RISC-V drumbeat grows louder.
Postman Releases Tool for Building Apps Using APIs
Postman today made generally available a visual tool infused with artificial intelligence (AI) that makes it simpler to build software by invoking application programming interfaces (APIs) found on its network. Shamasis Bhattacharya, chief software architect for Postman API, said Postman Flows makes it possible to use a low-code tool to build software using tens of […]
Tips For Standardizing API Life Cycle Management
Software life cycle management is becoming more critical for today’s technology-fueled organizations—because you can’t just release software into the world and expect it to work perfectly for years to come. More often than not, development teams must constantly adapt their software, progressively add features and cater to new use cases as they arise. This is nothing […]
Running Serverless in Production: 7 Best Practices for DevOps
Serverless in production refers to the deployment and use of serverless architecture in a live, production environment. In this context, serverless refers to a cloud computing paradigm where the cloud provider manages the infrastructure and allocates resources as needed to run and scale applications and services. In a serverless production environment, applications and services are […]
Deploying a Service Mesh: Challenges and Solutions
A service mesh is a dedicated infrastructure layer that enables communication between microservices in a distributed application. It helps to abstract the underlying communication infrastructure, such as network protocols and load balancing and provides a consistent interface for microservices to communicate with each other. In a service mesh, each microservice in the application is represented […]
The API Economy: Increasing Potential to Monetize Public APIs
API-first strategies are becoming more commonplace throughout today’s digital strata. APIs connect microservices architectures, power new digital transformations and help development teams avoid reinventing the wheel for common functions. And although most are built to connect internal components, studies indicate a movement toward more externalization and monetization of public APIs. Over three-fourths of developers now […]
Predict 2023: Stand and Deliver
It’s that time of year again—the New Year’s ritual: Time to predict the big trends in your world for the new year. By now you have probably seen dozens of headlines, articles, videos and interviews telling you what big trends will shape the coming year. Here at Techstrong Group, our Predict virtual event is built […]
5 GraphQL Trends to Watch in 2023
The GraphQL query language had a big year in 2022. We witnessed its increase in production use cases, solving overfetching and underfetching concerns that plagued traditional API integrations. GraphQL can significantly improve usability, aggregate multiple services and optimize how data is ported from system to system. Yet, GraphQL is also prone to new security concerns. […]
Best of 2022: We Must Kill ‘Dinosaur’ JavaScript | Microsoft Open Sources 3D Emoji
In this week’s The Long View: JavaScript is a bloated barrier to progress, and Microsoft’s emoji are on GitHub.
Index Tracks Impressive Growth of API-First Startups
APIs are the building blocks of modern software, and their use continues to grow around the globe. A full 89% of investment into APIs will increase or stay the same over the next 12 months, Postman’s 2022 State of the API report found. And the evolving API-first approach is ushering in many innovations and startups […]
Introduction to MACH Architecture
In recent years, the need to construct end-to-end digital experiences has become increasingly important. But to deliver new features and services promptly, organizations must double down on agility and reusability. As part of this trend, applications have become increasingly modular, often constructed using pre-built microservices and integrating common SaaS to avoid reinventing the wheel. MACH […]
Dead Downtown: It’s YOUR Fault | Pentagon’s FOUR Cloud Vendors | Apple Adds MORE Price Flexibility
In this week’s The Long View: Home working is ripping the heart out of cities, the DoD’s bizarre cloud strategy, and Apple adds a $10,000 app price option.
DevOps, Drought and Climate | Meta❤️PTP
In this week’s The Long View: Data centers cause climate change, and Meta is rolling out Precision Time Protocol.
Open Banking Shouldn’t Be Open Season on Your APIs
Open banking has become the latest technological advancement for financial services applications that’s modernizing the industry. For instance, Mastercard recently began its Start Path Open Banking program, which provides select startups the opportunity to use Mastercard’s expertise while learning how to apply open banking to their own business. Open banking is creating new opportunities for […]
Rust Momentum Intensifies | Elon Says No WFH
In this week’s The Long View: People won’t shut up about Rustlang, and Musk mandates Twitter teams return to the office.
OpenSSL Fiasco: What can DevOps Learn? | Elon Fires ‘50%’ of Twitter
In this week’s The Long View: The OpenSSL project has egg on its face, and half of Twitter’s staff are for the chop tomorrow.
Meta Income Down by Half | Will Apple Make it Worse? | Linux Secure Boot Fix
In this week’s The Long View: Meta’s latest results are very bad, Apple wants its cut of Facebook ads, and Lennart Poettering proposes improving Secure Boot for Linux.
SaaS Data Backup and the API Bottleneck
The need to protect SaaS data has never been greater. A recent global survey from Odaseva found that 51% of ransomware attacks are targeting SaaS data, and they are more likely to succeed (52%) than were attacks on cloud, endpoint and on-premises data. But there are plenty of reasons beyond the threat of ransomware to […]
Choosing the Right API Solution
There are more choices than ever when it comes to APIs–and that’s a good thing. But it also means you’ll need a strategic plan for choosing the right API solution. Two questions I’ve found can help guide that decision: What problem are you trying to solve right now? What functionality will you need in the […]
Kill the Password: Google on Board | 4-Day Week Proves Worthy
In this week’s The Long View: Passkeys is getting another big-tech supporter, and the four-day workweek train picks up speed.
‘The OG App’ Devs’ Facebook Ban | WFH Vs. NYC Real Estate | Calif. Pay Law is GO
In this week’s The Long View: A third party Instagram app causes ructions, remote work causes office slump, and more on Cali’s salary transparency law
Wipro Fires 2-Job Staff | Python Bug from 2007 | Lite Layoffs
In this week’s The Long View: Wipro fires 300 for moonlighting at competitors, Python has a nasty 15-year-old bug, and companies are finding new ways to lay people off without calling it a “layoff.”
How’s Facebook Work? They Don’t Know! | Cali. Pay Law | NASA RISC-V Launch
In this week’s The Long View: Facebook engineers admit they’ve no idea what Meta stores (or where), California requires job ads quote salaries, and RISC-V will power future NASA spacecraft.