7 API Observability Anti-Patterns to Avoid
Here are seven API observability anti-patterns and pitfalls to avoid to your APIs observable and your users happy.
Squaring the Circle: How to Make Public APIs Private
Many API attacks are effectively zero-day, novel attacks that exploit recent and unique changes to specific APIs. Here’s how to stop them.
We Will Control the World!
Don MacVittie has one request for vendors: Don’t tell us how you can manage other vendors’ tools; tell us how you’re making it easier to manage yours.
Salesforce Adds Ability to Apply Custom Security Policies to APIs
Salesforce added the ability to customize API security policies to the Mulesoft Anypoint API management platform.
Graylog Makes Free API Security Tool Available to Developers
A free version of Graylog’s API security platform is intended to encourage developers to adopt best practices to secure APIs.
How Supergraphs Help Consolidate Data Access
If used to aggregate various data sources and APIs into a unified graph, GraphQL could become ‘one schema to rule them all’ for enterprises.
GraphQL API Visibility Ensures Enterprises Can Escape Lock-In
Implementing the GraphQL API visibility and actionable intelligence covered here helps ensure that an enterprise has the means to modernize or migrate as necessary to preserve its strategic independence.
ngrok Adds Load Balancing to Programmable Network Service
ngrok added a global server load balancing capability to its service for managing ingress via an API.
SmartBear to Acquire Stoplight to Advance API Governance
SmartBear announced today it plans to acquire Stoplight, a provider of tools for editing and governing application programming interfaces (APIs). Sean Butler, vice president of product management for SmartBear, said the deal, once finalized, will add a set of complementary tools and open source software that extends the core API catalog platform that SmartBear provides […]
How to Prevent Zombie APIs
There is a growing reliance on web APIs. A full 92% of organizations plan to increase their investments into APIs over the next year, the 2023 Postman State of the API Report found. APIs are powering everything from internal microservices strategies to partner strategies and fully-fledged products. Yet, this newfound API sprawl has consequences; a […]
Postman Acquires Akita Software to Gain API Observability
Postman has acquired Akita Software to gain access to a platform for monitoring and observing application programming interfaces (APIs).
State of API Report Highlights Productization and Generative AI
Postman’s fifth annual State of the API report sheds light on the ongoing API productization movement and API developers’ use of generative AI.
Adopting a Low-Code GraphQL Approach to Build a Core Data Platform
Our education platform has relied on an outdated monolithic legacy application for years. It’s an outdated system built of a single service layer on top of a database designed for use cases that have evolved over the last decade. But we’re using the wealth of data in the monolith as a foundation for our current […]
Must You Collect All That?
SEO: The amount of data collected and available to the average DevOps team is incredible. But it’s not all being used.
Noname Security Looks to Shift API Security Testing Left
Noname Security today made generally available an update to a tool for testing application programming interface (API) security that promises to make it easier for DevOps teams to ensure APIs are secure. Filip Verloy, a field CTO for Noname Security, said Active Testing V2 is purposely designed to make it simpler to integrate API testing […]
Hasura Unfurls Data Delivery Network Based on GraphQL
At its HasuraCon 2023 conference today, Hasura launched a Data Delivery Network (DDN) based on a set of GraphQL application programming interfaces (APIs) that makes it simpler to integrate distributed sources of data. In addition, Hasura is adding Hasura Schema Registry to streamline API governance using graph technology, a MongoDB connector, a Native Data Collector […]
The API Life Cycle Mixer’s Manual: What Goes Into a Single Source of Truth?
In bartending, the mixer’s manual is a trusted source of information. These books can contain hundreds of recipes for classic cocktails, some of which might be 100 years old, while others might be for drinks that only recently arrived on the scene. Mixer’s manuals also can be great sources of inspiration for new, yet-to-be-tested recipes […]
The Role of SBOMs in Software Supply Chain Security
The software supply chain has become increasingly complex and dynamic with the rise of cloud computing, open source software and third-party software components and APIs. Widespread damage can occur if third-party APIs, cloud services, SDKs and open source software have security flaws. As a result, software supply chain security has emerged as a critical concern […]
4 Risk Factors Devs Should Consider for ChatGPT Integrations
It’s only been a couple of months since OpenAI introduced its latest low-cost API for developers to leverage ChatGPT in their applications and already many engineering teams have jumped headlong into new integrations. But developers experimenting with the possibilities of how ChatGPT can boost their software should temper that with some risk analysis and threat […]
State of Developer Experience Report Finds Growing API Reliance
Web APIs continue to grow in interest among developer users. APIs can empower new customer experiences and help engineers avoid rebuilding common functions. The technology is also powering microservices and headless architectures that we’ve seen gain more traction in recent years as enterprises become more composable. On the provider side, a web API strategy can […]
GraphQL Documentation Generators: How They Work and Why They Matter
GraphQL is an open source query language developed by Facebook that provides a more efficient, powerful and flexible alternative to traditional REST APIs for fetching and manipulating data over the web. It allows clients to specify the shape and structure of the data they need and receive exactly that, no more and no less. Unlike […]
Postman Releases Tool for Building Apps Using APIs
Postman today made generally available a visual tool infused with artificial intelligence (AI) that makes it simpler to build software by invoking application programming interfaces (APIs) found on its network. Shamasis Bhattacharya, chief software architect for Postman API, said Postman Flows makes it possible to use a low-code tool to build software using tens of […]
Understanding Cloud APIs
Six out of every 10 businesses had moved their workloads to the cloud as of last year. More steady traffic in the cloud and more direct cloud instances mean more to juggle–and the need for greater customization and integration. That’s where APIs come in. APIs are doing for the cloud what they did for on-premises […]