Kong Enterprise 2.7 Simplifies API Management
Kong Inc. this week advanced its service connectivity platform strategy with an update to Kong Enterprise that makes it simpler to collectively manage groups of application programming interfaces (APIs). Michael Heap, director of developer experience for Kong, Inc., said that capability will make it simpler to, for example, assign rate limits to different tiers of […]
Techstrong Research DevOps Radar Report 2022
You can’t control the pace of change; instead, consider that we are in a process of reinvention—both with regard to the way organizations use technology and how vendors position their offerings. At the same time, it’s never been more important for IT organizations to have complete visibility into the way technology is used from both […]
Front-End Frameworks Enable Better Dev Collaboration
The general public often thinks about software development in terms of a lone software developer hacking away tirelessly at their keyboard. Of course, that is an anachronism, at best. What is true is that collaboration among software engineers, especially with their colleagues in IT operations which evolved into DevOps, has become the norm for rolling […]
Trends in the API Industry
The application programming interface (API) economy is chugging along full steam ahead. The API management market alone is expected to expand 35% by 2025, supported by the sheer number of web APIs coming to market. APIs have become ubiquitous across microservices architectures, public product initiatives, SaaS platform offerings, IoT and partner-partner integrations. The industry has […]
How Are API Management and Service Mesh Different?
The use of APIs and microservices is increasing—a recent study from F5 estimated that the industry is approaching 200 million total APIs. As organizations expand their use of APIs and microservices, they inevitably require some form of service management architecture. There are primarily two major design options for implementing this: An API management system or […]
Step Aside, Monoliths: Meet the Composable Enterprise
A composable enterprise, defined by Gartner as “an organization that delivers business outcomes and adapts to the pace of business change”, relies on the assembly of interchangeable application building blocks. This architectural overhaul has largely been driven by a demand for more configurable application experiences, and the need to evolve existing application portfolios that are […]
Best of 2021 – How to Revoke JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)
As we close out 2021, we at DevOps.com wanted to highlight the most popular articles of the year. Following is the seventeenth in our series of the Best of 2021. One of the most common questions about JSON Web Tokens (JWTs): Once they’re issued, how can they be revoked? What Are JWTs? JSON Web Tokens […]
Hasura Adds Engine to Transform REST APIs to GraphQL
Hasura today unveiled a Data Hub repository for integrating application programming interfaces (APIs). The repository includes a connector that makes it easier for IT organizations to convert REST APIs into ones based on the GraphQL specification. Tanmai Gopal, Hasura CEO, said the connector eliminates the need to write custom code to connect existing REST endpoints […]
Speedscale Makes Free API Observability Tool Available
Speedscale today announced it is making a free edition of its observability tool for application programming interfaces (APIs) available to developers. Ken Ahrens, Speedscale CEO, said the goal is to expose more developers to the company’s API testing tool that can be accessed on their local machine via a command line interface (CLI). Dubbed Speedscale […]
The Graph Donates $48M to Advance GraphQL Platforms
The Graph, a provider of indexing and query tools based on the GraphQL language designed for blockchain platforms, today announced it has given $48 million to The Guild, a group of developers advancing an open source application programming interface (API) platform to further development of GraphQL-based technologies. Administered via The Graph Foundation, a nonprofit consortium […]
22 Engineering Leaders Weigh in on APIs
Every business today is a digital business … and if it’s not, it will be soon. A recent survey by Deloitte found that digitally mature companies are better able to navigate rapid change and, as a result, perform much better financially. Nearly two-thirds of survey respondents asserted that organizations that don’t digitize in the next […]
GraphQL as a Meta Layer
There’s a lot of interest in GraphQL lately. The query language is excellent for data retrieval, and it could act as a more usable mechanism to evolve the traditional REST API integration approach. But as adoption grows steadily, architects are now considering the implications of managing GraphQL at scale. Certain issues may hinder GraphQL in […]
SAP Extends Developer Tool Portfolio
At an online SAP TechEd conference this week, SAP announced it has added additional low-code/no-code tools to the SAP Business Technology Platform (BTP) to enable both professional and citizen developers to build applications that invoke application services provided via the company’s cloud platform. The effort to increase the number of custom applications invoking those services […]
Managing GraphQL at Scale
GraphQL, the query language invented by Facebook, has attracted a lot of interest as a means to conveniently access data programmatically. GraphQL structures internal services with a unified schema for data, empowering product engineers to easily grab what they want from many microservices to populate the user interfaces (UIs) they’re creating. By unifying company data […]
Apollo GraphQL to Provide More Control Over APIs
Apollo GraphQL today previewed an update to its Federation platform for tracking and managing application programming interfaces (APIs) based on the GraphQL query language to give organizations more control over how APIs are reviewed and ultimately approved. Matt DeBergalis, founder and CTO, Apollo, said the alpha edition of the Federation 2 platform provides a unified […]
Oracle Adds AI Services to Cloud Portfolio
Oracle today unfurled Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) AI services, a collection of services that make it easier for developers to use application programming interfaces (APIs) to invoke a wide range of services based on algorithms trained by Oracle on their behalf. Elad Ziklik, vice president of product management for AI services and data science at […]
GraphQL’s Greatest Strength is Also its Greatest Weakness
Michael Scott: Why don’t I tell you what my greatest weaknesses are? I work too hard, I care too much and sometimes I can be too invested in my job. David Wallace: Okay. And your strengths? Michael Scott: Well, my weaknesses are actually strengths. David Wallace: Oh. Yes. Very good. GraphQL is a new query […]
Postman Survey Shows Focus on Building and Deploying APIs
A survey of more than 28,000 developers and application programming interface (API) professionals published today by Postman found nearly half of respondents (49%) are now spending the majority of their time developing APIs. More than a quarter (28%) now spend 20 or more hours per week working with APIs. Kin Lane, chief evangelist for Postman, […]
How do we Bring APIs Into Decentralized Web3?
Blockchain-based applications are growing in popularity and underscore the decentralized Web3 movement. Simultaneously, web APIs are helping port data and reusable functionality across application types and are driving microservices development practices. So, how do we bring these two paradigms together? There are many cases where a blockchain-based smart contract may require data updates that only […]
CNCF Adopts Meshery to Advance Service Mesh Management
The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced this week during the ServiceMeshCon/KubeCon + CloudNativeCon conference that Meshery, a service mesh management plane created by Layer5, has become a sandbox-level project. In addition, Layer5 has also donated Service Mesh Performance (SMP), a set of tools for measuring the efficiency of a service mesh, to the CNCF. […]
The Role of APIs in Mainframe Modernization
Mainframes are historically clunky systems. They are incredibly secure and can process impressive calculations, yet they are complex to manage and challenging to extract data from. This reality is at odds with modern cloud-native infrastructure, which emphasizes distributed computing and portable microservices. So, how can existing mainframes adapt to this connected, data-driven economy? I recently […]
Securing Microservices Vs. Monolithic Apps
New requirements for Securing Microservices Vs. Monolithic Apps Enterprises are migrating from monolithic applications to microservices, hoping to accelerate software deployment and improve scalability. Security is sometimes glossed over in these transitions. Simple best practices like authenticating users and using SSL are still important to follow. But teams need to think through important differences between […]
The Uber API Authorization Vulnerability
What Happened In September 2019, a critical bug was discovered on Uber API, which allows merchants, service providers and others to offer ride-sharing services to customers. Uber had exposed a vulnerable application programming interface (API) endpoint that allowed attackers to steal valuable data, including personally identifiable information (PII) records and authentication tokens of riders and drivers. The leaked […]