Breaking Down the OWASP API Security Top 10, Part 2
Due to the widespread usage of APIs, and the fact that attackers realize APIs are a new attack frontier, the OWASP API Security Top 10 Project was launched. From the beginning, the project was designed to help organizations, developers and application security teams become increasingly aware of the risks associated with APIs. This past September, […]
Best of 2019: Breaking Down the OWASP API Security Top 10, Part 1
As we close out 2019, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the five most popular articles of the year. Following is the fifth in our weeklong series of the Best of 2019. As a result of a broadening threat landscape and the ever-increasing usage of APIs, the OWASP API Security Top 10 Project was launched. […]
Don’t Expect Miracles
Let’s run some fun scenarios to start this one off, shall we? “We’ll decide what language to use at a meeting next month. Until then, get to writing code!” “We might deploy internally, though Azure is a strong option, and we’ve discussed GCP. Now get operations up and running, we’ll tell you when we’ve decided.” […]
Predictions 2020: Application Trends, Opportunities and Challenges
Without wheeling out all the usual clichés, 2019 has been another whirlwind of disruptive innovation and opportunity–with plenty of challenges to tackle and circumvent along the way. The threat landscape mutated with predictable unpredictability, multi-cloud app deployments are becoming mainstream fixtures and DevOps methodologies started exerting a newfound influence on business plans. The big question […]
Oracle v. Google and Its Impact on APIs and Code
What, if any, impact will the Supreme Court’s rulings on Oracle v. Google have on the industry at large? TL/DR: It is unlikely to impact the vast majority of us, vendor and enterprise developer alike. Disclaimer: I am a technologist, not a lawyer. I have done some research, and talked to lawyers, but all that […]
Serverless and GraphQL: Build and Launch at the Speed of Thought
Websites and apps are now, often, one and the same. Traditional development methods for an online or downloadable app can take months, given the backend development aspects that need to be managed—infrastructure provisioning and management, security, scalability, consistency and more, particularly for companies that have users around the globe and potentially very high usage demands. […]
OpenLegacy Partners With Compuware to Advance DevOps on Mainframes
OpenLegacy has allied with Compuware to make it easier to build and debug microservices-based applications employing REST application programming interfaces (APIs) to access data residing on mainframes. Zeev Avidan, chief product officer for OpenLegacy, said the company’s namesake platform analyzes mainframe environments to create microservices-based APIs written in Java without requiring any changes to the […]
Trend Micro Partners With Snyk to Advance DevSecOps
Trend Micro today announced an alliance with Snyk through which alerts about vulnerabilities in open source code will be passed on to the tools Trend Micro makes available to apply virtual patches to both monolithic and microservices-based applications. Snyk provides a tool that identifies and fixes vulnerabilities and license violations in open source dependencies and […]
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 […]
Product IT Operating Model: The Next-Gen Model for a Digital World
Digitization presents many new opportunities for businesses to create value. At the same time, it forces IT to rethink the way it operates. Modern CIOs need an operating model that understands the blurring lines between IT and business and is designed for agility and speed. The product-centric IT operating model is rapidly emerging as the […]
API Security: A Key Part of the Bigger Plan
Standing as the “fuel” powering the customer-driven platform revolution, application programming interfaces (APIs) are the new “it thing” amongst operating systems. APIs are responsible for how apps communicate with each other and have become key components in many digital transformation strategies. Serving as a set of tools for building software application, they have empowered many […]
What AI Could Mean for Developers
Artificial intelligence has been dominating the tech news headlines for a few years now, as the innovations in the sector keep rolling out at increased rates. The technology is, for lack of a better term, awesome, and when used correctly, it can have tremendous effects. We have already begun to see artificial intelligence in the […]
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 […]
Talend Fall ’18 Enables Enterprises to Deliver Insight-Ready Data at Scale
Major integration platform update adds advanced catalog and API development capabilities and dramatically accelerates machine learning at scale REDWOOD CITY, Calif. and LONDON – October 16, 2018 – Talend (NASDAQ: TLND), a global leader in cloud data integration solutions, today announced a major update to Talend Data Fabric, the company’s unified data platform for data integration across complex, multi-cloud and on-premises […]
Kong Inc. Defines Services-Centric Approach to Integration
Kong Inc. has released a feature-complete version of its namesake services broker for legacy and microservices-based applications that promises to eliminate the need for legacy application programming interface (API) management platforms. Company CTO Marco Palladino said traditional API management platforms, for all intents and purposes, are now dead. Formerly known as Mashape, the core technology […]
Netifi Rises to Microservices Integration Challenge
Netifi this week launched an integration platform based on the open source RSocket communications protocol to replace HTTP ad REST application programming interfaces (APIs) as the mechanism for connecting microservices. RSocket was originally created by Netflix and is now being strengthened via contributions from Netifi, Facebook and Pivotal Software for use within enterprise IT organizations. […]
Why Open Banking Should Consider DevOps
There is a craze sweeping Europe, and rippling across the world—and no, I’m not talking about the next British Invasion. Open banking is a trend that’s significantly altering how banks work with fintechs and maintain agility in the global marketplace. A main enforcer is PSD2, a piece of EU legislation that sanctions access to personal […]
Functional Programming: Island of Misfit Functional Programming
The age of functional programming is dawning. The hype cycle has heated up, and IT departments are getting both real and perceived benefits out of the idea that a function runs on demand only. For some, the benefits are very real. Bursty processing, or things that are frequent and quickly resolved, see a benefit from […]
The Executive’s Guide to Microservices Chapter 3: Choosing A Starting Point
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
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
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
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
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 […]