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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.

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Atoosa Rezai

API Design, API Strategy, Authentication

09-07-2018

Riding the Wave of Digital Disruption: 5 Tips to Help Legacy Businesses Operate Like Startups
API University

Many startups are digital natives, meaning they don't have to deal with issues arising from legacy systems as enterprises often have to. Here are five key enablers to help established companies overcome disadvantages they may face compared to digital natives and stay competitive in the long run.

Analysis

David Feuer

Enterprise, Business

09-05-2018

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

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

08-06-2018

How and Why Meltwater Rolled Its Own Custom Testing Solution For Its API
API University Meltwater

This post will introduce you to the Synthetic Monitoring concept, which can make you feel more confident about your production system because you find errors quicker. It focuses on improving your Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR), and gathering valuable metrics on how your whole system behaves.

Analysis

Joel Carlbark

Monitoring, Testing

07-03-2018

How to Build a Great Banking API Portal
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Deutsche Bank

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Erste Group Accounts

Erste Group Corporate Accounts

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The banking sector has seen a great many new APIs in the last few years. With so many new APIs made available came an equal number of developer portals. Which ones have done the best job of presenting their APIs and what commonalities can you learn from when implementing your own banking API portal?

On the Web

Wendell Santos

Developer Relations

07-01-2018

How Singapore Will Run the Country Using APIs
API University

How do you integrate data and services from a government that includes 85 agencies? In Singapore the answer is to create a whole-government API. Users benefit by only having to deal with a single interface while agencies are spared the job of coming together as a single entity.

Case Study

Wendell Santos

Government

06-24-2018

Why Stream Switched from Python to Go
API University Stream

The company Stream announced recently that it has changed its core service language from Python to Go. The company uses Go for all performance intensive code, and it still uses Python where its programmers feel makes sense. Stream is an API for building, scaling, and personalizing activity streams.

Case Study

ProgrammableWeb Staff

Languages, API Strategy

06-10-2018

Five Keys to Great Microservice Design
API University

When starting off with microservices, it's hard for teams to know what exactly constitutes a well-designed microservice. This article presents five keys of well-designed microservices, provides guidance for larger teams, and highlights pitfalls to avoid when determining service boundaries.

Analysis

Jake Lumetta

Microservices, API Design

06-06-2018

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