Digital Customer Experiences: The Future is Modular
With the proliferation of microservices and APIs, will UIs go modular too? Some technologists note a rising trend around smaller, intent-based customer experiences that more directly mirror API endpoints. I recently met with Adam Evans, co-founder and CTO of Airkit, to better understand what’s broken with today’s digital customer journeys and how they need to […]
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 […]
Netlify Acquires FeaturePeek to Streamline App Feedback Process
Netlify announced today it has acquired FeaturePeek as part of an effort to make it simpler for DevOps teams to create a portal through which application stakeholders can both inspect a web application developed using JavaScript and leave comments for developers. Matt Biilmann, CEO of Netlify, said Netlify will embed that collaboration capability in the […]
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 […]
The Role of APIs In Digital Transformation
Digital transformation is increasingly propelled by rapidly changing user expectations. Release frequency is increasing, as is the need to connect a growing number of applications and digital experiences. As a result, 83% of IT specialists consider API integration critical to their business, found the State of API Integration Report. Application programming interfaces (APIs) hold powerful […]
The Evolution to Cloud-Native Applications and APIs
If you’ve spent any length of time in application development, you’re familiar with change. It’s the only constant. And along with how we build applications come changes in the techniques used to keep them secure. Securing modern applications requires more diligence than ever before. A review of how application development has changed over the past […]
Linux Foundation Embraces Lightweight API Gateway
The Linux Foundation announced today that an open source application programming interface (API) gateway known as KrakenD has become the latest project it will oversee. Rechristened the Lura Project, the lightweight stateless API gateway was originally developed by KrakenD, which plans to continue to offer an enterprise edition of the platform. KrakenD CEO Albert Lombarte […]
Why Browser and API Testing is Shifting Left
For developers working with cloud-native technologies, software testing and quality assurance is a key part of product development. For most teams, testing has “shifted left,” so the quality of the code can be assessed as it moves through the CI/CD pipeline. This approach to quality assurance reflects the rise of DevOps and other modern development […]
Low-Code/No-Code and Simple APIs
In recent years, implementing AI and IoT technologies has been top priority for many organizations as their leading-edge capabilities have become a requisite for digital transformation – but the speed of their adoption is greatly influenced by the flexibility of supporting software. Enter low-code, no-code programming and truly open APIs. Low-code/no-code platforms are a promising […]
RapidAPI Adds Library to Invoke Kafka via API
RapidAPI announced it has added support for the open source Kafka messaging software as another type of application programming interface (API) that DevOps teams can centrally access. An open source library provided by RapidAPI, available in beta, makes it possible to discover Kafka clusters and topics, view schemas and test and consume records from a […]
Okta Adds Free Developer Edition to AppSec Service
Okta this week lowered the barrier to adoption of DevSecOps best practices by making available an Okta Starter Developer Edition to enable developers to embed Okta authentication, authorization and user management capabilities into applications at no cost for up to 15,000 monthly active users. Randall Degges, head of developer advocacy for Okta, said interest in […]
DevOps Skills Increasing Among Salesforce Developers
A survey of 521 attendees at a recent online Future of Salesforce DevOps Summit event hosted by Gearset, a provider of a continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform for Salesforce developers, found just under half (47%) of respondents now release software at least multiple times a week, with another 29% releasing software weekly or biweekly. More […]
Apollo GraphQL Makes Federated Server More Accessible
In advance of its online GraphQL Summit this week, Apollo GraphQL announced today it has updated its Apollo Federation offering that enables a GraphQL Server to span multiple platforms, making it more accessible to a wider range of developers using different tools. Apollo Federation is now integrated with both Apollo Studio, a web-based tool for navigating […]
Low-Code Makes API Testing More Accessible
APIs are rising both in quantity and business value. But with that growth comes an increasing number of vulnerabilities, which could affect cloud service dependencies and internal APIs. Functionality and uptime could also suffer as cloud services evolve their APIs with new versions. Thus, API endpoint testing is critical to ensure a reliable back end. […]
42Crunch API Security Platform Now Available On-Premises
42Crunch has announced that the scanning tools it provides to enable DevOps teams to secure application programming interfaces (APIs) can now be deployed in on-premises IT deployments. Previously only available as a cloud service, the 42Crunch API Security Platform has also been updated to provide expanded support for the OpenAPI specification for REST interfaces defined […]
Linux Foundation Takes Control Of AsyncAPI Specification
The Linux Foundation announced today that it now plays host to an AsyncAPI Initiative that has developed a specification and a suite of open source tools for asynchronous application programming interfaces (APIs) and event-driven architectures. Founding sponsors of the AsyncAPI Initiative include Ably Realtime, Apideck, Bump, IQVIA Technologies, Slack, Solace and TIBCO. Most recently, Postman, […]
DevSecOps May Be Key to Prevent Data Leaks
Data leakage has become something of a norm in the digital realm, despite the fact that cybersecurity budgets are growing and more engineers are assigned to these very issues. Nowhere does this seem more true than in the realm of health care, where breaches that expose sensitive patient data are, sadly, a fairly common occurrence. […]
Esri Unveils PaaS Environment for Calling Geospatial Data via APIs
Esri today unveiled a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment through which developers can embed geospatial capabilities into their applications by making an application programming interface (API) call to a cloud service. Euan Cameron, CTO for developer technology at Esri, said the ArcGIS Platform will make it simpler for developers to incorporate mapping capabilities enabled by a geographic […]
DataStax Delivers on Open APIs Commitment
DataStax announced today the general availability of the open source Stargate application programming interface (API) framework for building applications on the Cassandra database. Ed Anuff, chief product officer at DataStax, said Stargate will make it easier for developers to use de facto standard REST API, GraphQL API, schemaless Document API or JSON to build applications […]
Survey Surfaces High Reliance on DevOps to Build and Deploy APIs
A survey of 13,586 IT professionals who work with application programming interfaces (APIs) published today by Postman, provider of an API development platform, finds best DevOps practices are now widely employed to both produce and consume APIs. The primary method through which teams working on APIs collaborate is by sharing URLs (42%). However, publishing API […]
Volterra Service Mesh Service Automatically Discovers APIs
Volterra announced today it has updated a service mesh it makes available via a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform to include the ability to automatically discover all the application programming interfaces (APIs) in an application using machine learning algorithms, then automatically apply all the whitelist policies that apply to those APIs. Service meshes add a programmable layer […]
Mendix Adds Git Repository Support to Low-Code Platform
Mendix today updated its low-code development platform to add support for Git repositories as part of an effort to make it easier to share and reuse code, as well as a visual conflict resolution capability that enables developers to easily see the differences between multiple versions of the same code. Announced at its online Mendix […]
APIs: The Secret Sauce for Low-Code Platforms?
As companies become increasingly talent-strapped, APIs are helping spur a low-code movement to help them remain competitive Low-code platforms have the potential to alter how software is built and delivered. By focusing on visual flows and drag-and-drop UIs, low-code platforms dramatically lower the barrier to software development. Yet, anyone with a toe in the no-code […]