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December Update: COVID-19 Exposure Apps In the USA
This article covers state-sponsored Covid19 exposure and contact-tracing apps launched in the US during November/December 2020. At a time when support from the federal government was needed, individual states were forced to come up with and pay for their own solutions to a global problem.
12-30-2020
Adopting An API-Led Approach At Pitney Bowes
In an article for CIO, Pitney Bowes Chief Innovation Officer James Fairweather discussed creating a pattern of development while turning company-wide attention to the adoption of a critical technology, enabling the century-old company to reshape the way it works and empowering client success.
12-15-2020
RapidAPI Adds New Capabilities to its Enterprise Hub
RapidAPI announced new enterprise management capabilities for RapidAPI Enterprise Hub, a marketplace that enables developers and enterprises to find, connect to, and manage thousands of APIs. RapidAPI Enterprise Hub helps with integrating with existing API gateways and management systems.
12-09-2020
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
Postman Launches Postman Public Workspaces to Enable Collaborative API Design
Postman has announced the launch of Postman Public Workspaces in an effort to accelerate API development practices through collaboration at a massive scale. This new initiative takes inspiration from the world of massively multiplayer gaming and leverages the platform’s userbase.
11-20-2020
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
New Features in GraphQL Editor 3.0 Enrich the API Development Experience
GraphQL Editor announced today the release of Version 3.0 of its flagship development tool. The new release of GraphQL Editor 3.0 offers a variety of new features that intended to improve the productivity of developers creating APIs according to the GraphQL specification.
10-27-2020
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
APIs to Track Coronavirus COVID-19
Since February of this year, ProgrammableWeb has been tracking APIs that provide access to data related to the COVID-19 pandemic. This article highlights the available APIs. The World Health Organization now reports that the virus has infected over 40,000,000 people across more than 200 countries.
10-19-2020
How to Make Use of gRPC Libraries and Frameworks
While gRPC brings a lot of power to enterprise-level distributed computing, it's not an easy technology to implement. Fortunately, there are projects that provide the necessary framework to do this. This article focuses on a detailed examination of the Node.js implementation of gRPC.
10-14-2020
How to Auto-Generate gRPC Code Using protoc
The objective of this article is to explain how to get protoc, a tool that does a lot of the mundane work that goes with creating code for a gRPC API, up and running to auto-generate gRPC code in a variety of programming languages. We'll cover auto-generating code in JavaScript, C#, and GoLang.
10-14-2020
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
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
Postman's New Schema Validation Feature Helps Encourage API Spec Literacy
Postman has announced that its API Builder is gaining the ability to validate API schemas in real-time via a new UI pane that is accessible in the tool’s define tab. The addition of this functionality helps to provide developers with real-time feedback and encourage API specification literacy.
09-18-2020
Browser Access to Postman Now Available
Postman, API development platform, has launched Postman for the web. The new browser interface offers developers easy access and increased collaboration with others. In a press release, the company described the new product as “somewhat of a return to Postman’s original roots.”
09-03-2020
PriceAdvantage Launches API for Fuel Pricing Services
PriceAdvantage, a company that provides fuel price analytic services, has announced a new API that will allow fuel retailers to streamline integration with the platform. The company is hoping that the API will simplify the process of importing and exporting pricing data.
09-01-2020
Kubernetes to Establish Lifecycle Duration Standards
Starting with version 1.19 of Kubernetes, developers will be required to advance APIs that they are developing into a stable state within 9 months. These changes are intended to encourage follow-through on feature development and avoid APIs getting stuck in beta.
08-28-2020
Financial APIs Continue to See Big Growth
When we first looked at the fastest growing API categories of recent years, Financial and Payments both made the list. We've seen a number of signals that there is great interest in API related to Finance so we decided to take a deeper look at the category's growth this month.
08-26-2020