The Executive’s Guide to Microservices Chapter 3: Choosing A Starting Point

February 16, 2018 by JP Morgenthal 0 Comments

In the previous chapter, Steve had been asked to provide a comparison of costs and resources needed to migrate to a commercial system versus modernize the current system. He works with Stacey, head of development, who comes up with a modernization plan that includes certain changes that the team will implement to limit downtime. Steve […]

7 Principles for Using Microservices to Build an API That Lasts

February 7, 2018 by Chris McFadden 1 Comments

SparkPost launched the first beta version of our cloud-based email delivery service three years ago. At its introduction, a handful of customers sent a few million emails a month. Now, our API is used by tens of thousands of customers—including Pinterest, Zillow, and Intercom—to send more than 15 billion emails a month. That dramatic […]

Axway Extends API Management Reach

November 28, 2017 by Mike Vizard 1 Comments

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 […]

Google Launches Software Supply Chain Initiative

October 18, 2017 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

Maintaining the integrity of a software supply chain is an issue that has long bedeviled IT organizations. With the rise of microservices based on containers, however, this issue has become more acute. As a result, software supply chains are an issue that Google now plans to tackle. Google, along with JFrog, Red Hat, IBM, Black […]

CA Technologies Acquires Runscope for API Monitoring

October 4, 2017 by Mike Vizard 0 Comments

There’s a pressing need for a variety of monitoring tools more than ever. But given the proliferation of application programming interfaces (APIs) inside the enterprise, demand for API monitoring tools in particular is rapidly expanding. To address that requirement, CA Technologies has acquired Runscope, a provider of an API monitoring service delivered as a software-as-a-service […]

DevOps Chat: IBM z14, Built for DevOps from the Ground Up, with Hayden Lindsey

September 27, 2017 by Alan Shimel 0 Comments

IBM recently GA’ed perhaps its biggest zSystems mainframe release in the last decade or longer. The z14 mainframe from IBM has also been designed from the ground up to be DevOps-empowered. From APIs and other integrations to language support, the z14 is IBM’s most advanced mainframe ever. I had a chance to speak with Hayden […]

JAMstack Radio Podcast: Benefits of an API-First CMS

September 18, 2017 by Malia Powers 0 Comments

Welcome to JAMstack Radio, a podcast that discusses the JAMstack, a new way to build fast and secure apps or websites. JAMstack Radio is hosted by Brian Douglas, Developer & Advocate at Netlify. In this episode, Brian is joined by Stefan Judis and Rouven Wessling to discuss Contentful, a developer friendly API-first CMS. They explain the benefits of […]

Planet of the APIs: Monitoring Transactions in the Wild

July 10, 2017 by Deborah Schalm 0 Comments

APIs power today’s connected digital world, but can also hurt your end-user’s experience if integrations are not available or functioning properly, so API monitoring has become critical to protecting performance. Join Catchpoint’s API expert, Robert Castley, as he shares best practices for monitoring API transactions in the wild. This webinar will cover: Intro to API’s […]

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