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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
Sendbird Adds Voice and Video Calling to its Portfolio of Communication APIs
Sendbird has announced the addition of voice and video calling APIs to augment its existing chat and messaging API offering. The technology relies on the World Wide Web Consortium's WebRTC standard and offers customers an opportunity to consolidate their in-app communications down to one vendor.
04-03-2020
Arduino To Host Virtual Conference to Battle COVID-19 Today (April 2, 2020)
Arduino, maker of credit-card sized computers that are easily adapted in Internet-of-Things (IoT) fashion to analog or digital devices is hosting a virtual event to talk about project ideas for battling Covid-19 with the Arduino platform. For example, building Arduino-based ventilators.
04-02-2020
69 Percent of IT Leaders Keep the Lights On Instead of Innovating. Enter APIs.
While a recent MuleSoft survey indicates that businesses see digital transformation as being critical to their success, a majority of IT leaders still picture themselves as keeping the lights on versus innovating. ProgrammableWeb's David Berlind discusses the findings with MuleSoft's Ani Pandit.
03-19-2020
Salesforce Commerce Cloud Exposes APIs To Public With New Try-Before-You-Buy Developer Portal
In this presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast, David Berlind, editor in chief of ProgrammableWeb interviews Andrew Lawrence, director of product management at Commerce Cloud at Salesforce. Salesforce Commerce Cloud has launched a newly redesigned API developer portal.
03-18-2020
Post Corona, Code for America Looks to Join Devs, Civic Techies and Gov Officials To Transform GovOps
While private sector companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, etc. draw closer to perfected digital states, the public sector (government agencies and orgs) are woefully behind. In bringing together developers, civic techies, and government officials, Code for America is hoping to change that.
03-16-2020
Contentful Offers “API Accelerators" To Speed App Dev On Its Headless CMS (includes video)
In this edition of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast, ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind chats with Contentful VP Benjamin Keyser about the idea of an API-first "headless" content management system and what his company is doing to accelerate the developer path to "Hello API."
03-12-2020
How The Decoupled Nature of Web APIs Gives Organizations Incredible Flexibility (includes video)
David Berlind delivers Part 2 of his long-running college course on APIs reviews the importance of API contracts and what it means for Web APIs to decouple API clients from API servers. He provides real-world examples of how that decoupled nature affords some amazing flexibility.
02-28-2020
How APIs Will Democratize Access to Low-Cost Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Even with today's open source technologies for applying artificial intelligence and machine learning, there are still some thorny challenges to getting both right. Especially at a reasonable cost to both the pocketbook and the planet. But API-led approaches might be able to ease the pain.
02-25-2020
Apollo GraphQL Co-Founder Geoff Schmidt Discusses Federation of The Graph (video)
In this episode of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock podcast, ProgrammableWeb's David Berlind and Bob Reselman talk GraphQL with Geoff Schmidt, co-founder of Apollo GraphQL; the leading solution provider for standing-up GraphQL-based APIs. Federation of "the graphs" was one of the many topics.
02-25-2020
March's DC-Area API Meetup to Feature Talks on Serverless, Big Parser APIs, and APIs 101 (Part 3)
This month (March 2020), in addition to ProgrammableWeb editor-in-chief David Berlind's presentation of Part 3 of his long running (and updated) API 101 series, Balvinder Singh from Walmart Labs will be talking about serverless backends using BigParser APIs at the Dc-Area API Meetup.
02-24-2020
Twilio Study Reveals Erosion Of Consumer Trust in Telephone Infrastucture Due to Robocalls
Twilio has released its annual State of Customer Engagement Report and to find out more about the report and the trends that it spotlights, ProgrammableWeb's editor-in-chief David Berlind captured a video interview with Al Cook, the company's Vice President and General Manager of AI
02-20-2020
US Court of Appeals Irreparably Damages API Economy
After a lower court ruled that HiQ was within its rights to circumvent LinkedIn’s API program by “scraping" LinkedIn’s Web pages, a US Court of Appeals upheld the ruling and paved the way for irreparable harm to the API economy. What this means for the future of the API economy remains to be seen.
02-03-2020
Lessons Learned From Building APIs For the US Federal Government
In this special presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from the Washington, DC-area API Meetup on Dec 5, 2019, Oddball.io CTO Rob Wilkinson breaks down the two most important phases of launching successful APIs for the federal government and covering the key components.
01-31-2020
APImetrics Launches API.Expert To Compare Performance of Common APIs (video)
ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind interviews APImetrics CEO and co-founder David O'Neill and gets a demo of the company's newly launched service called API.Expert. API.Expert continuously monitors and ranks the performance of common APIs used to develop applications.
01-29-2020
February's DC-Area API Meetup to Feature Talks on Artificial Intelligence and APIs 101 (Part 2)
It's almost February and do you know what that means? It’s time for another monthly API meetup in Washington, DC! The February edition of the meetup is Tuesday, Feb 4, 2020 and will feature two talks; one on succeeding with APIs for artificial intelligence and the other is an APIs 101 talk.
01-27-2020
From the DC-Area API Meetup: How To Build A Scalable API on AWS in 10 Minutes
In this special presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from the Washington, DC-area API Meetup on Nov 5, 2019, calletime.ai co-founder Adam Becker shows attendees how he and his partner collaborated to stand-up an API endpoint in almost no time using three Amazon Web Services.
01-27-2020
What is an API and Why does the API Contract Matter So Much?
In this special presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from the Washington, DC-area API Meetup on Dec 5, 2019, ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind kicks off his long running college course on APIs. In this first chapter, Berlind reviews the definition of an API.
01-24-2020
How Curity.io's API Identity Server is Designed for Scale, Availability, and Configurability
Curity.io CEO and co-founder Travis Spencer explains why he thinks its a better idea to rely on a dedicated appliance to handle identity management for API access. The approach to API identity management is modeled after the design of routers that do only a few things but do them really really well.
01-24-2020
From the DC-Area API Meetup: Government Security Architect Attempts to Learn About API Security
Epigen Senior Information Security Architect Trevor Bryant decides it's time to get smart about the art of securing APIs. As it turns out, there's no one-stop-shop to get smart about API security. Bryant retraces his steps as he attempts to become an overnight expert on the topic of API Security.
01-15-2020