JAMstack Radio Podcast: Benefits of an API-First CMS
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 […]
APIs: Automation is Great. So is Usability
Many developers are not so great at documentation. Ask anyone who’s been thrown into a large code base. Changes aren’t documented well, tribal knowledge thrives in the code comments, and anyone who says, “I’m confused, what does this chunk of spaghetti code mean?” is often treated with annoyance or even disdain. That is something that […]
Node.js Becoming More DevOps-Friendly
Over the last several years use of Node.js has exploded across the enterprise, as developers moved to embrace a variant of Javascript that made it easier to build both client and server-side applications. However, every time it is upgraded, all the dependencies between it and application modules written in C or C++ breaks. To solve […]
Top 6 Challenges of API Testing
Testing teams face several unique challenges when testing application programming interface (API) implementations. API testing is part of the integration testing process and concerns the communication between two systems—one of which your staff likely has no control over. Below you’ll find the following six common challenges when testing APIs and our recommended solutions. Initial Setup of API […]
The Postman Delivers More
Most of us use Postman during API development. The company claims 3 million users, and as one of them, that number doesn’t raise my eyebrows any. But if you are like me, you’ve figured out collections, how to back up your data and perhaps looked at tests, but not done much more. As a tool […]
Red Hat to Acquire API Management Leader 3scale
Accelerates digital transformation with API driven hybrid-cloud architectures RALEIGH, N.C. — June 22, 2016 — Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE: RHT), the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire 3scale, a leading provider of application programming interface (API) management technology. By adding 3scale to its […]
DevOps and the Challenge with Services
At RackN, we’ve been working for years to make DevOps portable across platforms. For us, that means the ability to move between clouds and from cloud to metal. Of the several challenges to portability—composability, API heterogeneity, sequence, cross-system dependencies—making configuration management tools work with services has been particularly important, as significant parts of building systems […]
Continuous Testing: What exactly is it?
***This post is based on themes and ideas from the great e-book, “Continuous Testing,” by our friends at Parasoft. The aptly named DevOps practice of Continuous Testing synchronizes Testing/QA with Dev and Ops processes optimized to achieve business and development goals. A few years ago when Agile was all the rage, lightning-fast Dev sprints left the […]
The Internet of APIs
The Internet moves at the speed of light. Not only that, but the terminology used when describing The Internet seems to change with the tides. One of the newest phrases to start making the rounds is “The Internet of APIs.” In an attempt to understand exactly what it is, I went looking for a definition […]
The Role of a Traditional NOC in the new DevOps World
This new question in the DevOps.com Enterprise DevOps Q&A series comes from a large business, though not what many would recognize as a traditional or legacy enterprise. This organization, like many high-growth businesses, is in a relatively new market segment that only exists due to the rise of cloud computing and digital media. In their […]