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What are the Strengths and Limitations of Three Commonly Used API Architectural Styles?
API University

There are several API implementations you could use for your application. But which is the right one? This article looks at the strengths and limitations of three of the most commonly used API architectural styles — REST, gRPC, and GraphQL — and how they interact with databases.

Analysis

Cédrick Lunven

API Design, API Education, Database

02-17-2022

Four Principles for Designing Effective APIs
API University

One of the most important aspects of building an API is its design. There are no rules that govern how you have to build your APIs but there are certain principles that can help you develop APIs in the most commonly accepted ways. This article will cover the four basic principles of API design.

Analysis

Hitesh Baldaniya

API Design

12-16-2021

Google Aims to Provide Enterprise Stability with new API Guidelines

Google announced a new Google Enterprise APIs designation, which aims to set apart APIs that serve business-critical systems and ensure the company’s partners that these APIs will experience prolonged stability and support. This designation is the third recent initiative aimed at building trust.

Brief

Kevin Sundstrom

API Design, Application Development

07-27-2021

Parasoft Adds Functionality for Enterprise API Testing

Parasoft today announced the 2021.1 release of the Parasoft Continuous Quality Suite of API testing tools for enterprise applications, including Parasoft SOAtest, Virtualize, and CTP. Modern development teams must accelerate delivery without sacrificing quality.

Announcement

ProgrammableWeb Staff

API Design, Testing

04-29-2021

Twilio Adds OpenAPI Specification Beta
Twilio

Twilio has announced that it has open-sourced the beta release of OpenAPI specifications for all Twilio APIs in an attempt to facilitate language-agnostic development on the platform. This new offering builds upon the existing libraries that Twilio supports for popular languages.

Brief

Kevin Sundstrom

API Design, API Management

04-23-2021

Mux Partners With Maestro on Interactive Live Streaming Tech, Highlighting Benefits of API First Design

Mux, a video technology company, has partnered with Maestro, an interactive live streaming platform, to provide creators with a one-stop-shop for everything that they need to build immersive and interactive video experiences. ProgrammableWeb spoke with Mux co-founder and CEO Jon Dahl.

Analysis

Kevin Sundstrom

Video, API Design, Integration

04-21-2021

Supreme Court Vindicates Google in API Copyright Battle With Oracle

The Supreme Court of the United States has delivered a ruling on Oracle v. Google, an API copyrightability case that litigates Google’s use of Java SE APIs in its Android applications. The majority opinion, authored by Justice Breyer, finds that Google did not violate Oracle’s copyright in Java SE.

Brief

Kevin Sundstrom

Law, API Design, Copyright

04-05-2021

OpenAPI Initiative Announces OpenAPI Specification Version 3.1.0

The OpenAPI Initiative has announced the release of OpenAPI Specification (OAS) version 3.1.0. This latest iteration brings tighter alignment with JSON schema vocabularies, better ways to identify API licenses, and improved documentation.

Brief

Kevin Sundstrom

API Description Languages, API Design

02-22-2021

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.

Announcement

ProgrammableWeb Staff

API Design

12-09-2020

How to Scale APIs for Rapidly Growing Organizations
API University

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.

Analysis

Siddharth Rao

API Design, API Strategy

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.

Brief

Kevin Sundstrom

API Design, API Management

11-20-2020

How Ably.io Uses gRPC APIs to Streamline Its Messaging Service
API University

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.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

API Design, API Education

10-29-2020

How Gitlab puts gRPC in the Real World
API University

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.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

API Design, API

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.

Brief

Bob Reselman

API Design, GraphQL

10-27-2020

gRPC in the Real World: The Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface
API University

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.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

API Design, API Education

10-26-2020

How Kubernetes Exemplifies A Truly API Driven Application
API University

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.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

API Design, API Education

10-23-2020

How to Auto-Generate gRPC Code Using protoc
API University

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.

How-To

Bob Reselman

API Design, API Education

10-14-2020

Understanding the Essentials of gRPC
API University

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.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

API Design, API Education

10-14-2020

What is a gRPC API and How Does it Work?
API University

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.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

API Education, API Design

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.

News

Kevin Sundstrom

API Design

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.”

Brief

Eric Carter

Tools, API Design

09-03-2020

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.

Brief

Kevin Sundstrom

API Design, Open Source

08-28-2020

GitHub Modifies Authentication Methods for REST API
GitHub

GitHub has announced that beginning on November 13th, 2020, they will require that developers using the GitHub REST API use token-based authentication. This will now be required for all authenticated operations in replacement of the previously allowed account password access.

Brief

Kevin Sundstrom

API Design, Application Development, Authentication

07-31-2020

SmartBear Adds New DevOps Features to SwaggerHub

SmartBear, a provider of software testing and monitoring solutions, has announced the addition of a new set of DevOps features to its SwaggerHub API development platform. The update adds a new open-source command-line interface tool and aims to improve the platform’s Git integration capabilities.

Brief

Kevin Sundstrom

API Management, API Design

07-15-2020

How to Empathetically Design APIs That Developers Will Love

Design is important in many aspects of development which is especially true for development that drives UX. We've learned that API design can have a profound impact on user interfaces and thus user experiences. Poorly designed APIs can lead to awkward, unnatural, or inefficient workflows.

Analysis

Danny Baggett

API Design, API Strategy, Developers

06-16-2020

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What are the Strengths and Limitations of Three Commonly Used API Architectural Styles?
API University

Four Principles for Designing Effective APIs
API University

Google Aims to Provide Enterprise Stability with new API Guidelines

Parasoft Adds Functionality for Enterprise API Testing

Twilio Adds OpenAPI Specification Beta
Twilio

Mux Partners With Maestro on Interactive Live Streaming Tech, Highlighting Benefits of API First Design

Supreme Court Vindicates Google in API Copyright Battle With Oracle

OpenAPI Initiative Announces OpenAPI Specification Version 3.1.0

RapidAPI Adds New Capabilities to its Enterprise Hub

How to Scale APIs for Rapidly Growing Organizations
API University

Postman Launches Postman Public Workspaces to Enable Collaborative API Design

How Ably.io Uses gRPC APIs to Streamline Its Messaging Service
API University

How Gitlab puts gRPC in the Real World
API University

New Features in GraphQL Editor 3.0 Enrich the API Development Experience

gRPC in the Real World: The Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface
API University

How Kubernetes Exemplifies A Truly API Driven Application
API University

How to Auto-Generate gRPC Code Using protoc
API University

Understanding the Essentials of gRPC
API University

What is a gRPC API and How Does it Work?
API University

Postman's New Schema Validation Feature Helps Encourage API Spec Literacy

Browser Access to Postman Now Available

Kubernetes to Establish Lifecycle Duration Standards

GitHub Modifies Authentication Methods for REST API
GitHub

SmartBear Adds New DevOps Features to SwaggerHub

How to Empathetically Design APIs That Developers Will Love