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Top 5 things to Remember When Adding a GraphQL Backend
API University

GraphQL has come a long way since Facebook first announced this open-sourced spec in 2015 with a number of Fortune 500 companies now employing the technology. To smooth out your implementation of the GraphQL backend at your company, here are five things you need to keep in mind.

Analysis

Tanmai Gopal

Backend, Developers, Open Graph

10-01-2018

Banking on Speed, Ripple Makes a Name For Itself Among Cryptocurrency Developers
API University Ripple Data

Ripple provides blockchain payment technologies for banks, giving them more reliability, cost efficiency, and speed (transaction completion and recognition) that are infamous challenges within the banking industry. Its solutions enable banks to handle inter-bank transactions, liquidity and payments.

Analysis

Jeremy Glassenberg

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Payments

09-28-2018

What Options do you Have for API-access Control?
API University

If you are building an app, you will have to tackle setting up access control for it. Access control is the process of granting your users permission to access certain information. What are the different approaches to access control and which approaches are best suited to different use cases?

On the Web

Wendell Santos

Authentication, Authorization

09-23-2018

How Scalability Planning Results Markedly Improves APIs
API University

Developers can often miss an important aspect of API development - scaling the API. To scale the API, you must look into offloading the administrative functions of multiple APIs in their apps. Scaling of the API at the design phase is crucial to the success of API adoption in the long run.

Analysis

Atoosa Rezai

API Design, API Strategy, Authentication

09-07-2018

Why Ethereum is the Java of Blockchain
API University

Some popular cryptocurrencies serve purposes other than use as a currency, with some acting like a liquid startup equity. This article looks at Ether, the cryptocurrency used by Ethereum, which is meant to be used more as a full-blown cryptocurrency stack and developer platform. Figure 1.

Analysis

Jeremy Glassenberg

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain

08-30-2018

Make Your Own Zillow, An Overview of the Zillow Tech Stack
API University ZillowGoogle Maps Places

Zillow is a popular real estate service that many people use when searching for homes and apartments. With many sites like Zillow, its API tech stack is drawing developers with ideas for leveraging such a site to build very creative services that increase the site's functionality.

How-To

ProgrammableWeb Staff

Real Estate

08-12-2018

What's the Difference Between REST and Swagger?
API University

Upon seeing the headline to this article, API experts will likely scratch their heads wondering why the journal of the API economy (ProgrammableWeb) would indirectly suggest that REST and Swagger are comparable to the point that an article about their differences is warranted.

Analysis

David Berlind

API Design, API Strategy, REST

08-06-2018

The Importance of Feedback Loops in API Design
API University

If you're going to provide an API that is both desirable and stable, you need to ensure that your initial API release is functional, reliable, and usable. A death knell for APIs is releasing constant breaking changes or updates that require app developers to rework their app.

How-To

ProgrammableWeb Staff

API Design

08-05-2018

How to Build a Basic Salesforce REST API Integration
API University Salesforce Force REST

You can learn to build an app using the Salesforce API that gives you a customer's name, email, and phone number. The API can help you to access leads information and understand client behavior. Web actions like click, watch, scroll, browse can determine how a sales team can follow up.

How-To

Mayela Gonzalez

Customer Relationship Management

07-29-2018

How Web Authentication May Change the Future of Passwords
API University Duo Verify

Recent investigations show how users can be authenticated via web without using passwords. It’s called WebAuthn or Web Authentication that uses a Web API in a browser. Clients can be verified with their phones, hardware keys, or trusted devices. In his article, Nick Steele explains the new standards

How-To

Mayela Gonzalez

Authentication, Passwords, Verification

07-19-2018

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Top 5 things to Remember When Adding a GraphQL Backend
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What Options do you Have for API-access Control?
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How Scalability Planning Results Markedly Improves APIs
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Why Ethereum is the Java of Blockchain
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Make Your Own Zillow, An Overview of the Zillow Tech Stack
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What's the Difference Between REST and Swagger?
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The Importance of Feedback Loops in API Design
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How to Build a Basic Salesforce REST API Integration
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How Web Authentication May Change the Future of Passwords
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