Tag: API
Digital Business Transformation Driving More API Adoption
A global annual survey of 2,200 developers published today by RapidAPI, a provider of an application programming interface (API) hub, finds digital business transformation initiatives have led to an increase in reliance ...
API Sprawl a Looming Threat to Digital Economy
New estimates say the total number of public and private APIs in use is approaching a whopping 200 million. APIs are becoming increasingly crucial to the global digital economy. They are the ...
Akamai Brings Web Application and API Security Together
Akamai Technologies, Inc. this week launched a service that consolidates the process of securing both web applications and application programming interfaces (APIs). Amol Mathur, vice president of product management and strategy for ...
Salt Security Adds Support for GraphQL APIs
Salt Security has extended its platform for securing application programming interfaces (APIs) to include support for APIs built using GraphQL. GraphQL is an open source data query and manipulation language for APIs ...
HashiCorp Previews Updates to Consul Service Mesh
During an online HashiConf Global conference, HashiCorp today made available a beta of an update to its open source Consul service mesh for virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters that makes it possible ...
Mastering API Gateways for the Modern Cloud-Native Enterprise
As modern enterprises continue migrating to the cloud and the need for connected applications and devices dramatically increases, API-driven architectures are being widely adopted. In addition to the convenience of being able ...
Hasura Extends Scope of GraphQL API Platform
During its online an HasuraCon ’21 conference, Hasura today announced that it has made it possible for developers to employ GraphQL application programming interface (APIs) to launch queries against data residing in ...
Akamai Adds Service to Optimize API Traffic
Akamai today launched an API Acceleration service specifically designed to accelerate application programming interface (API) calls using special purpose hardware, reserved capacity and prioritized routing. At the same time, the company is ...
Why API Quality Is Top Priority for Developers
It is no secret that web APIs have become increasingly important to the operation of modern businesses. According to RapidAPI's Developer Survey and Insights report, 61% of developers used more APIs in ...
API Security by Design
"APIs are nothing new," said Secure Code Warrior co-founder and CTO Matias Madou, but they have recently become more widely used. And where they were once a local mechanism, they are increasingly ...
Our API Mess is Coming
APIs are the satisfaction of a long and deep need to be able to create consistent and reliable integrations between disparate systems, operating systems and datasets. As we started to use REST-based ...
Languages and DevOps: API-First
One of the places development has made significant changes is in the land of APIs. These days, a program almost isn't considered a proper application unless it offers APIs to do most ...
