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 used in a distributed manner, partly because of changes to application architectures. Another reason is that users are increasingly likely to access systems […]
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 APIs, we also realized they fulfilled a previously little-addressed gap in automation. Frankly, they are a force multiplier in DevOps delivery. Early efforts […]
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 of what can be done via UI (and even command line). This is a big deal for several reasons; first and foremost, the […]
HAProxy Updates Data Plane API to Simplify Service Discovery
HAProxy has updated the open source HAProxy Data Plane application programing interface (API) to include service discovery capabilities alongside native support for the Consul service mesh being developed by HashiCorp. Version 2.2 of the HAProxy Data Plane API also adds support for file handling, SSL certificates, map files and configuration files for its Stream Processing […]
Internal Makes On-Premises Edition of No-Code Tool Available
Internal today launched an on-premises edition of its eponymous no-code development platform that promises to simplify application development backlog reduction for enterprise IT organizations. Arisa Amano, CEO of Internal, said many professional developers regularly find themselves building simple applications that, if given access to the right tools, could be built instead by end users. Internal […]
Low-Code Opens API Integration Potential for Citizen Developers
APIs have an accessibility problem. Could a low-code API approach make them more inclusive and accessible for citizen developers? Most software today integrates with third-party SaaS. TomTom for geolocation. Stripe for payment. Twilio for SMS. Kairos for facial recognition. AWS for NLP … the list goes on. Whatever function you’re looking for, there’s probably an […]
SAP Makes Available Free Cloud Tier to Build Applications
SAP announced that next year it will make available a free tier on SAP Cloud Platform for developers that are building applications. Announced at the SAP Tech-Ed conference, the free tier comes at a time when SAP is encouraging developers to use its applications as a foundation for digital business process transformation initiatives. As part […]
Apollo GraphQL Offers Free API Management Service
Apollo GraphQL has announced the general availability of a free Development Graphs cloud service to simplify management of GraphQL application programming interfaces (APIs) at scale. GraphQL APIs have been gaining traction as an alternative to REST APIs because they provide developers with more control over who can access data via an API and are easier […]
OpenTelemetry and the Future of Monitoring Instrumentation
OpenTelemetry is an open source project to provide a de facto standard trace API and a metric and log agent to end vendor lock-in It’s no surprise that understanding the internal health of applications and systems is a high priority for developers and SREs. It’s a well-understood problem with dozens of vendors focused on helping […]
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 […]
Strengthen API Security With These Tips and Patterns
If you haven’t noticed, digital organizations are building more and more APIs. ProgrammableWeb tracks more than 23,000 public web APIs at the time of writing, and the API market is estimated to be worth $5.1 billion by 2023. Building with APIs increases internal interoperability, reduces development time and can extend product functionality tremendously. In short, […]
Postman Employs Browsers to Simplify API Collaboration
Postman today announced it is making its namesake platform for managing application programming interfaces (APIs) available via a browser to make it easier to share and inspect APIs. Previously, Postman required DevOps teams to download a desktop application to access the Postman platform. Kin Lane, chief evangelist for Postman, said agent software developed by Postman […]
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 […]
OpenLegacy, Boomi Simplify Legacy Application Integration
OpenLegacy, a provider of a platform through which application programming interfaces (APIs) are layered on top of legacy application processes, announced today an alliance with Boomi, an arm of Dell Technologies that provides organizations with access to an integration platform-as-service (iPaaS) that is made available as a cloud service. Zeev Avidan, chief product officer for […]
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 […]
Cisco Moves ACI Strategy Forward
Cisco is advancing its hybrid cloud computing strategy with release of version 5.0 of Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), a software-defined networking (SDN) that can be deployed on cloud platforms or networking equipment deployed in an on-premises IT environment. The latest version of Cisco ACI adds support for a transit gateway between virtual private cloud […]
Netlify Makes Build Plugins Available for Jamstack Platform
Netlify, at a Jamstack Conf Virtual event, announced the general availability of open source Netlify Build Plugins that provide IT teams with a set of continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) workflows for building websites and web applications using JavaScript, application programming interfaces (APIs) and static HTML files without employing web servers, otherwise known as a Jamstack. […]
Kong Brings Collaboration to Designing APIs
Kong has launched an open source tool for designing application programming interfaces (APIs) designed to make it easier for teams of developers to collaboratively edit an API specification that can be stored in a Git repository. Based on the open source Insomnia API management platform the company gained last year by acquiring Floating Keyboard Software […]
Compuware Shifts Mainframe App Testing Left
Compuware today announced it is making it easier to shift application performance testing further left on to the shoulders of developers by adding support for a REST application programming interface (API) to its application performance management (APM) platform for mainframe applications, along with a plug-in for Jenkins continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) environments. Sam Knutson, vice […]
How to Compare and Contrast APIs to Improve DevOps Processes
The cloud is driving digital transformation, from web applications to mobile applications, from partner integrations to API monetization. Even custom applications are moving into the cloud. If you draw a line through all these trends, APIs would be at the heart of it all. We know we need to eat our vegetables to keep our […]
42Crunch Extends API Security Alliance With Microsoft
42Crunch this week announced it has extended an existing alliance with Microsoft to now include support for Microsoft Azure Pipelines for its REST API Static Security Testing Tool. Previously, 42Crunch only provided support for the Microsoft Visual Studio integrated development environment (IDE). Dmitry Sotnikov, chief product and marketing officer for 42Crunch, said support for the […]
The Definition of Faster in the Age of App Capital
Businesses want speed. One of the impacts of digital transformation—and the associated pressure to succeed in an app economy—is the desire to move at speed. Nearly half (48%) of organizations are driven by digital transformation to deploy faster according to our State of Application Services 2019. But it’s not all about deployment. It’s also about […]
How Integration Can Keep Up with Digital Demands
Integration holds the key to accelerating innovation, but in many organizations, business systems and application integrations haven’t kept up with the demands of digital. Data still exists in a siloed blend of on-premises systems and unconnected cloud applications, and IoT has added another layer of complexity into the mix. Understanding the three trends below, and […]