Hasura Launches Beta of GraphQL-Based Remote Joins Tool
Hasura today announced the public beta of Remote Joins, which makes use of an open source GraphQL query language for application programming interfaces (API) to join disparate data sources residing in different repositories. Company CEO Tanmai Gopal said Remote Joins extends a GraphQL engine the company has developed around a project that is now hosted […]
Low-Code Development: The Future of Communications Experiences
The benefits of embedding real-time communications features into business and consumer applications are well-known. When it comes to customer service, most people would much rather click-to-call from within a web experience, social media site or business application to connect with another person, than find their phone to dial a number and wait in a queue. […]
Top iOS Security Gotchas
Ensuring the security of user data within your app is critical to building trust in your business and contributing to the online safety of customers. Here’s a list of the top 10 essential security mechanisms that Apple offers to up the security posture of your iOS applications. Adopting these technologies and APIs within your products […]
Defining the Database Requirements of Dynamic JAMstack Applications
Zero-configuration hosting solutions such as Zeit Now and Netlify are taking the frontend community by storm due to their ease of use. If we add static site generators such as Gatsby/Next.js/Nuxt.js/Hugo/Jekyll to the mix and deploy our statically generated pages to a content delivery network (CDN), we get something highly desired with minimal effort: distributed […]
DevOps Deeper Dive: Mainframe Fallout from BMC’s Compuware Buy
The acquisition of Compuware this week by rival BMC Software signals that the rate at which mainframe environments are being modernized might not be occurring fast enough to support a vibrant third-party tools provider ecosystem. Both BMC and Compuware were sold to private equity firms in 2018 and 2014, respectively. Thoma Bravo, which acquired Compuware, […]
Tenable Allies With Datadog to Drive DevSecOps
Datadog and Tenable have teamed up to enable organizations to adopt best DevSecOps processes. Tenable CTO Renaud Deraison said his company is making the cybersecurity data it gathers via its Nessus vulnerability scanning software available to the monitoring and analytics service provided by Datadog. The goal is to make it easier for DevOps teams to […]
Red Hat Extends Runtimes Middleware Portfolio
Red Hat has made available the latest instance of Red Hat Runtimes, a suite of lightweight open source components and frameworks that makes it easier to discover the middleware most appropriate for building a specific type of application. James Falkner, product marketing director for Runtimes at Red Hat, said as organizations embrace cloud-native application architectures […]
Survey Sees More Complex API Challenges Ahead
A survey of more than 10,000 developers of application programming interfaces (APIs) suggests there’s lots of room for improving the overall efficiency of API lifecycle management. The survey was conducted by Postman, a provider of a platform for building APIs. Respondents on average said they only spend a quarter of their time (26%) on the […]
Challenges of Designing API-Driven Experiences
As SaaS and mobile application development–and cross-software integration and communication–continue to become increasingly important for organizations across all industries to remain competitive today, APIs play a critical role. In fact, APIs dominate digital experiences today, with an average of 220 new APIs published every month, representing a 30% increase over the previous four years. As […]
WSO2 Advances Microservices Gateway
At the Open Source and Software Development Conference (OSCON), WSO2 this week announced it has updated an open source microservices gateway to make it possible to expose multiple microservices through a single application programming interface (API). Additionally, version 3.0 of the WSO2 API Microgateway now includes the ability to automatically discover microservices and transform legacy […]
Citizen Developers Drive Productivity and Innovation
It was once written that “software is eating the world,” “APIs are eating the world” and “APIs are eating software.” In 2019, a more accurate statement might be, “APIs (or application programming interfaces) fuel the software that’s still eating the world.” In today’s world, there is an ever-constant demand for software, enterprise applications and mobile […]
Adobe Aims to Build Developer Ecosystem
Adobe today outlined an approach to building a developer ecosystem that revolves around open source code, application programming interfaces (APIs) and DevOps processes. Matt Asay, head of developer ecosystem for Adobe, said in the last few years Adobe has increased its reliance on open source code to deliver offerings such as Adobe Experience Manager, a […]
SmartBear Integrates Test Tools with Atlassian DevOps Platforms
At the Atlassian Summit 2019 conference this week, SmartBear announced it has integrated the Zephyr test automation tools it acquired last year with the Jira portfolio of tools from Atlassian. In addition, SmartBear announced it has integrated Zephyr with the rest of the company’s SoapUI Pro, TestComplete, CrossBrowserTesting and LoadNinja testing tools. SmartBear committed to […]
Salt Security Unveils Platform to Secure APIs
Salt Security, fresh off raising an additional $10 million in funding, announced a platform that promises to advance the state of DevSecOps by making it possible to detect when application programming interfaces (APIs) are being probed by cybercriminals looking for weaknesses to exploit. Salt Security CEO Roey Eliyahu said the Salt Security API Protection Platform employs […]
SAP Adds SDK to ERP Cloud Service
When most IT organizations think about DevOps it’s usually within the context of custom application development. But thanks to the rise of application programming interfaces (APIs), packaged applications are now becoming a much bigger factor. SAP, for example, just made available a software development kit (SDK) for SAP S/4HANA Cloud, an instance of its ERP […]
CA Technologies Positions Automic at the DevOps Core
After acquiring Automic earlier this year, CA Technologies suddenly found itself with an embarrassment of IT automation riches. Now the company is moving forward by further integrating the Automic IT automation platform with the rest of the portfolio of tools and services that it says are required to construct a software factory. Ron Gidron, technology […]
Break the Rules and Win at Digital Transformation
The rules of the game have changed. In today’s digital world, it’s not about the big eating the small. It’s the fast that beat the slow and the nimble that outmaneuver companies constrained by old systems and business models. What’s more, the finish line is always moving. The rapid pace of innovation and disruption means […]
Barracuda Networks Enhances API to Advance DevSecOps
Recognizing that DevOps teams deploying applications in the cloud need a more sophisticated approach to security, Barracuda Networks at the Microsoft Inspire 2017 conference unveiled an enhanced REST API for its Web Application Firewall (WAF), in addition to providing integration with the IT automation framework developed by Puppet Labs. At the same time, Barracuda Networks […]
Microsoft Woos Development Partners
If Microsoft has its way, many more DevOps processes will revolve around the cadence at which the company upgrades its applications. At its Inspire 2017 conference, the tech behemoth announced an ISV Cloud Embed initiative designed to entice more developers to add value by extending application functionality it has already developed and deployed in the […]
Cisco Looks to Bridge Gap Between Networking and DevOps
Networking in the enterprise has always stood apart. It might take two minutes or less to spin up a virtual machine, but it can take two weeks to set up the network connections. To help bridge some of the gaps between networking and the rest of the DevOps team, Cisco Systems this week unveiled a […]
The Time Is Now for an IT Operations Revolution
There’s a level of frustration starting to build inside IT operations teams that’s about to boil over. Lucas Carlson, vice president of strategy for Automic, a unit of CA Technologies that provides an IT automation platform, says developers are bullying IT operations teams by programmatically invoking application programming interfaces (APIs) exposed by public cloud service […]
Reality Check: Bringing Continuous Delivery Dreams to Life
Every developer shares the same dream: to write a piece of code or app that changes everything. Whether it makes your company do things more efficiently, attracts hordes of new customers, simply makes existing clients happier or maybe even changes the world a little bit, that code is what we strive for. Some of us […]
4 Top Tips for Developing a New Feature
As a backend developer at CA BlazeMeter, I recently had the chance to work on a big feature for our web app. The feature required a massive change on our backend code, a big change on our frontend and multiple migrations. You know what I’m talking about—it was one of those projects that developers fear. […]