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How APIs Allow Financial Institutions to Participate in IoT Initiatives
As Financial Institutions consider making a foray into the IoT space, they must consider the role that APIs play. APIs can help set the stage for IoT initiatives and banks should take the time to understand the types of APIs available to them and how those APIs are central to any digital strategy.
12-22-2020
Lisa-Marie Namphy Explains how Open Source Fosters Developer Interest in CockroachDB
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. We talk with Lisa-Marie Namphy from Cockroach Labs to learn what drives its engagement strategy.
12-14-2020
Randall Degges Highlights Okta’s Scalable Approach to Engaging Developers
An essential part of any API strategy is to engage with your developer ecosystem. This interview continues a series where ProgrammableWeb talks to providers about their best practices for engaging with developers. We talk with Randall Degges from Okta to learn what drives its engagement strategy.
12-08-2020
How to Scale APIs for Rapidly Growing Organizations
A major problem for rapidly growing API providers is how to scale their APIs to meet the growing needs of their systems and codebases. Companies should think about scaling on two different dimensions: design and system. Both should be taken into account and baked into your API architecture.
12-07-2020
Associated Press Offered Blockchain Access for Election Count Data
Election integrity is front and center in the United States as a result of last week’s presidential election and the tension that delayed results have caused in a national electorate that is desperate for certainty. It is clear that the Associated Press saw this coming and took action.
11-09-2020
Twilio's Quinton Wall Emphasizes API as a Product
An essential part of any API strategy is to engage with your developer ecosystem. This interview continues a series where ProgrammableWeb talks to providers about their best practices for engaging with developers. We talk with Quinton Wall from Twilio to learn what drives it's engagement strategy.
11-04-2020
How Ably.io Uses gRPC APIs to Streamline Its Messaging Service
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.
10-29-2020
How Gitlab puts gRPC in the Real World
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.
10-28-2020
How Postman Empowers its Community as a Key to Developer Relations Strategy
An essential part of any API strategy is to engage with your developer ecosystem. This interview is the first in a series where ProgrammableWeb talks to providers about their best practices for engaging with developers. We talk with Nick Tran from Postman to learn about how he set up its strategy.
10-27-2020
ProgrammableWeb’s Guide to Modern API Business Models
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.
10-26-2020
gRPC in the Real World: The Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface
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.
10-26-2020
How Kubernetes Exemplifies A Truly API Driven Application
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.
10-23-2020
Understanding the Essentials of gRPC
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.
10-14-2020
Oracle v. Google Isn't That Complicated, The Supreme Court Is
Last week’s Supreme Court oral arguments regarding Oracle v. Google were the culmination of a decade-long legal battle between the two tech giants. Frustratingly, only questions remain as the oral arguments were dominated by the usual search for a legal precedent.
10-13-2020
What is a gRPC API and How Does it Work?
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.
10-08-2020
How to Create High-performance, Scalable Content Websites Using MACH Technologies
Building websites, especially content-heavy sites, that are fast, scalable, and flexible that deliver superior performance is more complex than creating a simple website. Adopting a MACH approach is one of the effective ways to implement this. This article shows you how to utilize MACH technologies.
09-16-2020
These are the Best Tools to Help Developers Build Progressive Web Apps
Progressive Web Apps are built from common web technologies but offer an experience rivaling a native app. A number of big brands such as Adidas, Lancome USA and others have trasnformed their sites to PWAs. This article looks at some of the tools developers can use to build PWAs.
09-10-2020
Four Tips Developers Should Follow When Building Location-Based Apps
Apps that use location data present challenges to developers. Users expect seamless experiences with up-to-date, reliable data – a significant design and engineering challenge. How can developers deliver stellar user experiences? Here are four best practices for building location-based apps.
09-02-2020
API Businesses Don't Deserve to Exist Unless They Aggregate
Startup API businesses don’t deserve to exist unless they aggregate. They can gain advantage by aggregating datasets or uses of data. The opportunities to aggregate across big players are highly contested, but there is a new area to gain advantage: Data, and especially data with machine learning.
09-01-2020
Four Methods You Can Use to Train Employees on API Basics
Investing in digital training has become a necessity for businesses. In this post, we’re going to set out four methods that you can successfully implement in your effort to train your employees on API basics. You can choose just one of them, or attempt all four. It depends on your situation.
08-25-2020