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How to Succeed in the API Economy; a Prescription from ProgrammableWeb
API University

In aggregate, the organizations around the world that directly or indirectly monetize their APIs form the basis of what the media often calls the “API Economy.” As a subset of the total global economy, the API economy is responsible for the exchange of trillions of dollars of value annually.

Analysis

David Berlind

API Strategy, API Design

12-03-2018

Is the API in Your App a Trojan Horse?
API University

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.

Analysis

Aaron Lint

Security, API Design

11-29-2018

Open APIs – The Need for Common Standards in Banking
API University

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?

Analysis

Joseph White

Banking, API Design, API Strategy

11-27-2018

Five Reasons Microservices Don’t Always Work for Your Application
API University

Microservices, an approach where software can be broken into small, distinct components offers many advantages over monolithic architectures. But, they are not a catch all solution for your application. This article looks at when moving to a microservice approach may not be in your best interest.

On the Web

Wendell Santos

Microservices, API Design

11-18-2018

How Design Thinking Can Make Your Good API Amazing

Developing a software product is an enormous challenge, but it’s also enormously rewarding. This article provides a guide to design thinking when developing your API. It will cover what an API is, what design thinking is and why it matters and some essential API design tools.

Why You Should or Should Not Use GraphQL
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Shopify GraphQL Admin

GraphQL, the open source technology originally backed by Facebook has continued to gain momentum since its release in 2015 and with its hype it’s easy to think that GraphQL is the way to go when developing your next API. As with any technology though, it has its strengths and weaknesses.

On the Web

Wendell Santos

API Design

10-21-2018

Apigee API Monitoring, Hosted Targets, Extensions Move to General Availability
Apigee Edge

Throughout this last summer Apigee announced beta releases for three products: Apigee API Monitoring, Hosted Targets, and Extensions. The company has now moved all three into general availability, with API Monitoring rolling out in phases over the next several weeks.

Brief

Kevin Sundstrom

API Management, API Design

10-11-2018

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.

Analysis

Atoosa Rezai

API Design, API Strategy, Authentication

09-07-2018

Kong Announces Support for Service Mesh Deployments

Kong Inc., an API management platform, recently announced that its open source platform will support service mesh deployments. The new service mesh capabilities hope to enable Kong users to better manage increased East-West network traffic within their microservice-oriented architectures.

Announcement

ProgrammableWeb Staff

API Design

08-31-2018

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, REST

08-06-2018

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How to Succeed in the API Economy; a Prescription from ProgrammableWeb
API University

Is the API in Your App a Trojan Horse?
API University

Open APIs – The Need for Common Standards in Banking
API University

Five Reasons Microservices Don’t Always Work for Your Application
API University

How Design Thinking Can Make Your Good API Amazing

Why You Should or Should Not Use GraphQL
API University Yelp GraphQLGithub GraphQL
More Related
Shopify GraphQL Admin

Apigee API Monitoring, Hosted Targets, Extensions Move to General Availability
Apigee Edge

How Scalability Planning Results Markedly Improves APIs
API University

Kong Announces Support for Service Mesh Deployments

What's the Difference Between REST and Swagger?
API University