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Raphael Assaraf Breaks Down Aircall’s Strategy for Marketing to Partner Developers
API University

All successful API providers engage with developers as part of their API strategy. In this series ProgrammableWeb interviews providers about their best practices for engaging with developers. In this article we talk with Raphael Assaraf from Aircall to learn what drives its engagement strategy.

Analysis

Wendell Santos

Developer Relations

5 days ago

How Ably.io Uses gRPC APIs to Streamline Its Messaging Service
API University

In this article we'll look at how the Messaging as a Service platform Ably.io uses gRPC to optimize its service's streaming capabilities. We'll provide a brief overview of the Ably.io tech stack and then we'll look at how gRPC is used to optimize communication in the service's control plane.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

API Design, API Education

10-29-2020

How Gitlab puts gRPC in the Real World
API University

In this series we've presented the basics of what the gRPC specification is and how it works. In this installment, we will take a real-world look at how the Source Control Management Service GitLab adopted gRPC when it refactored its server-side architecture into the Gitaly project.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

API Design, API

10-28-2020

ProgrammableWeb’s Guide to Modern API Business Models
API University

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the API business models being used by providers today. It revisits the old API business models to see what has changed and also identifies all of the newcomers based on real-world observations across the API economy over the last five years.

Analysis

David Berlind

API Strategy

10-26-2020

gRPC in the Real World: The Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface
API University

In this article we're going to look at how gRPC is used by Kubernetes in its Container Runtime Interface (CRI) technology. Bit first, why aren't we seeing that much gRPC on the front-end? It's a question that's been asked many times now and it is one that is well worth answering.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

API Design, API Education

10-26-2020

How Kubernetes Exemplifies A Truly API Driven Application
API University

It is entirely possible to make it so that an API layer serves as the master control center for all activity taking place inside and outside a computing domain. In other words, an API layer can be the one ring that rules them all, which is the approach seen in a Kubernetes installation.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

API Design, API Education

10-23-2020

How to Make Use of gRPC Libraries and Frameworks
API University

While gRPC brings a lot of power to enterprise-level distributed computing, it's not an easy technology to implement. Fortunately, there are projects that provide the necessary framework to do this. This article focuses on a detailed examination of the Node.js implementation of gRPC.

How-To

Bob Reselman

Developers, API, API Education

10-14-2020

How to Auto-Generate gRPC Code Using protoc
API University

The objective of this article is to explain how to get protoc, a tool that does a lot of the mundane work that goes with creating code for a gRPC API, up and running to auto-generate gRPC code in a variety of programming languages. We'll cover auto-generating code in JavaScript, C#, and GoLang.

How-To

Bob Reselman

API Design, API Education

10-14-2020

Understanding the Essentials of gRPC
API University

In this article, we're going to take a detailed look at gRPC. We're going to cover the essentials of gRPC architecture in terms of specification and implementation. Then, we're going to take a detailed look at the underlying concepts and practices required to create a gRPC API.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

API Design, API Education

10-14-2020

What is a gRPC API and How Does it Work?
API University

gRPC is an API framework that allows a program in one location on the internet to pass data to a distinct function in another program at another location on the internet. In this article, we're going to discuss how gRPC emerged on the landscape of distributed computing and explain the technology.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

API Education, API Design

10-08-2020

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