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Is the API in Your App a Trojan Horse?
Attackers know that API calls originating from inside an app are a blueprint for the infrastructure inside your data center. Further, they can use those same API calls to hide their malicious purposes, like a Trojan horse ready to slip through the front door. Apps are the new emerging threat vector.
11-29-2018
Open APIs – The Need for Common Standards in Banking
The ripple effects of regulation such as the EU's PSD2 and Open Banking initiatives in the UK and APAC, designed to stimulate increased competition in banking, are being felt worldwide. But what do these changes mean in practice for developers seeking to build fintech apps to work with bank APIs?
11-27-2018
The Blockchain Train Is Leaving The Station. Should You Be On Board?
Few trends exemplify the idea of FOMO the way blockchain trends do. But should you invest your time or money into it? This article offers some ways that you can get started with blockchain so that you can be aware of a rapidly growing and evolving market and make the best decision for yourself.
11-02-2018
HyperLedger is a Platform-Agnostic Toolset For Building Blockchain Apps
While often perceived as competitive to Ethereum, HyperLedger operates on a different wavelength. Hyperledger provides a set of agnostic tools for developers who are building blockchain apps, regardless of the core blockchain layer. Therefore it is a suite of the tools mentioned in this article.
10-30-2018
Stitch Avoids the End of API Economy as We Know It
Taking advantage of APIs is a quick and inexpensive technique for a business so long as those APIs are available and remain constant. Changes happen to APIs all the time and this is the story of Stitch, a company that found a way to succeed, despite the uncertainties inherent to the API economy.
10-26-2018
How to Build a Secure API Strategy for the API Economy
APIs, via B2B partnerships and B2C applications, can increase a company’s reach and make digital assets and services available to broader audiences. There are dangers posed by the adoption of insecure APIs in the enterprise. Hence, businesses need a strategy for building and operating secure APIs.
10-25-2018
Remember This Word: Blockchain
This is the beginning of ProgrammableWeb's series on Cryptocurrency and why it matters to developers. In this article we present an overview of the ecosystem including a brief overview of blockchain, Ethereum and more as well as some of the common API types you can expect to see.
10-22-2018
How APIs Can Drive The Adoption of Meaningful Business Analytics
As enterprises embrace digital business models, they are evolving toward becoming data-driven organizations and harnessing analytics. This article explores the challenges of using traditional analytics approaches, how API management can address these challenges, and mine valuable data for analytics.
10-18-2018
How APIs Can Help Organize Workplace Chaos and Improve Your Culture of Collaboration
The modern work environment is filled with an overwhelming number of tools and applications, but with no easy way for employees to connect and share their ideas with the rest of the company. Here we look at how APIs can help companies make it easier for coworkers to find content and collaborate.
10-15-2018
What Are Some of The Better Known Blockchain and Cryptocurrency APIs?
ProgrammableWeb's series on cryptocurrency and blockchain technologies aims to give you a sense of the various components and business opportunities within the various cryptocurrency ecosystems. Now, let's take a look at a small handful of typical APIs across those ecosystems.
10-10-2018
Amid The Cryptocurrency Gold Rush: Who Are the Shovel Providers With an Eye On the APIs?
A look at the cryptocurrency market, with all its hype, failed ICOs, and questionable players, reveals an ecosystem comparable to that of the miners in the 1800s. In such an ecosystem, will a market for businesses providing tools and services (such as APIs) to the blockchain world thrive?
10-08-2018
Top 5 things to Remember When Adding a GraphQL Backend
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.
10-01-2018
Banking on Speed, Ripple Makes a Name For Itself Among Cryptocurrency Developers
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.
09-28-2018
How Scalability Planning Results Markedly Improves APIs
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.
09-07-2018
How to Keep A Hold of Your Developer Talent: No Ping Pong Tables Required
Forget about the free food, and ping pong tables, to keep a hold of developers, you need to think like one too. You must create an environment which encourages your team to stay put, and grow together. Here are four tips for retaining your development talent for the long term.
09-06-2018
Riding the Wave of Digital Disruption: 5 Tips to Help Legacy Businesses Operate Like Startups
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.
09-05-2018
Javascript Tool Maker Relents After Mixing Immigration Politics with Open Source Licensing
In yet another "attack" on the principles of open source, a Javascript tool maker modified the MIT open source license on its software in hopes of using the rogue license to achieve a political objective. As noble as the intent may have been, members of the open source community rejected the move.
08-31-2018
Why Ethereum is the Java of Blockchain
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.
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08-30-2018
It's Time To Reject The Latest Attack On Open Source Software
More than a decade ago, a handful of companies looked to capitalize on the open source movement while at the same time perverting the licensing fundamentals behind it. The threat to open source culture was palpable. But disaster was averted. Today, history is repeating itself and it's time to act.
08-29-2018
What's the Difference Between REST and Swagger?
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.
08-06-2018