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Google has announced that applications that utilize API versions more than two years removed from the current offering will soon be delisted from the Google Play ecosystem. This change is made in an effort to improve security and consistency across the platform.
New Relic, a cloud-based performance monitoring company, has announced a new two-way integration with Postman that will provide developers with API analytics covering both performance and functionality. This functionality will be available to New Relic customers on a usage-based pricing model.
Earlier this week users of both Discord and Spotify noticed problems with accessing each platform, leading to significant frustration and Discord playfully tweeting that it's “time to go outside everyone.” The underlying issue ended up being connected to a Google Cloud component update.
The idea behind universal API management is that, through a single control plane, APIs of differing origins, provisioning infrastructures (gateways, clouds), and architectural styles can be universally managed, governed, observed, and discovered.
Sauce Labs, an application testing and monitoring platform, has recently added API testing and monitoring to its platform. This addition brings support for a vital element of application management and moves beyond legacy strategies that are no longer comprehensive in an API development era.
StepZen has announced the release of two new free GraphQL tools that are intended to simplify the process of outlining and managing connections to APIs. GraphQL Studio and GraphQL Federation lack the full feature-set that StepZen has to offer, but provide powerful functionality.
Data Theorem, Inc. today announced that it has introduced an API Attack Surface Calculator to help organizations of any size understand their attack surface exposures. Delivered as a free self-service offering, the assessment tool is simple to use and conducts its first-level API security analysis.
Salt Security, an API-security services provider, has announced the results of a new study performed by Salt Labs, the company’s threat detection and education branch. This research outlines API vulnerabilities that stem from what the company calls a “misimplementation of Elastic Stack.”
Postman has announced the launch of a new version of its platform, dubbed the Postman API Platform, with a number of new features. The new updates are aimed at helping organizations become API-first companies that use APIs as the base upon how their business strategies are built.
As APIs emerge as a product to monetize, becoming the connection between high-tech startups and companies that want to modernize without butting up against their own internal inertia, a search for the best API tooling begins. Many API-powered companies place the API gateway at the top of that list.
MuleSoft has updated its Anypoint Platform to include an all-new product that enables developers to leverage multiple APIs with a single GraphQL query. This new solution, Anypoint DataGraph, is designed to be utilized without the need to write any additional code.
Peloton, the popular fitness application best known for its virtual cycling classes and exercise bikes, exposed thousands of users’ personal data via a set of improperly secured API endpoints. The company deployed a partial fix after security researchers forwarded the information to media partners.
Red Hat has announced an API management solution that it claims will reduce the cost and complexity of developing API-based services on its platform. Red Hat OpenShift API Management builds upon functionality that it acquired via the company’s 2016 purchase of 3Scale, an API management company.
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.
New research shows that 96% of organizations use public or private APIs, but still have room for improvement when it comes to leveraging APIs to their full benefit. This is just one of the findings in MuleSoft’s 2021 Connectivity Benchmark Report based on a survey of CIOs and IT decision-makers.
Cloudflare announced a set of new services that are intended to bolster application security by limiting API abuse. The new API Discovery and API Abuse Detection tools are designed to provide critical context for application security issues that are often handled through overly simplistic measures.
GitHub has partnered with the Python Package Index (PyPI), a third-party software repository for the Python programming language, to provide a new service aimed at protecting against leaked PyPI API tokens. This initiative starts immediately with GitHub hunting for vulnerabilities.
A cybersecurity expert has discovered a code-snippet in Twitch’s mobile application that seems to denote API updates that would allow the platform to score users for brand safety concerns regarding advertising. This action would fall in line with the practices of other social media outlets.
Google has announced the release of the next major version of its Apigee API management platform: Apigee X. This iteration further integrates Google Cloud services into the Apigee API management platform, which was acquired by Google in 2016.
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.
RapidAPI has launched RapidAPI Testing. The new offering aims to allow developers to create and manage API tests from development to deployment. It supports API types including REST, SOAP, and GraphQL. APIs can be added from RapidAPI Marketplace and Enterprise Hub.
Cloudflare has announced the release of Cloudflare API Shield. This new product, which is free to all account holders regardless of their pricing plan, is intended to simplify API security via mutual TLS authentication, API schema validation, and a positive security model.
Facebook has recently simplified the company’s platform terms and developer policies in hopes that this will improve adherence to guidelines. To support these goals Facebook has announced the broad rollout of Data Use Checkup, an annual process for developers that validates data usage.
GrammaTech, a provider of software application security testing solutions, today announced it has released Swap Detector an open-source checker that detects API usage errors. The tool aims to improve application security testing for DevOps.
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.
