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In this presentation of the APIs Unplugged podcast, hosts Mike Amundsen and Matt McLarty discuss their bold predictions for the API world in 2022. Their predictions run the gamut from whether GraphQL will replace REST, the rise of API aggregation, and the continuing headache that is API security.
Market, technology and legislative trends create needs for digital transformation, but the true value comes not from the implementation of any single technology – not from SaaS, Mobile, IoT or Big Data in and of themselves – but rather from bringing multiple technologies together.
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.
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.
As Financial Institutions consider making a foray into the IoT space, they must consider the role that APIs play. APIs can help set the stage for IoT initiatives and banks should take the time to understand the types of APIs available to them and how those APIs are central to any digital strategy.
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.
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.
Last week’s Supreme Court oral arguments regarding Oracle v. Google were the culmination of a decade-long legal battle between the two tech giants. Frustratingly, only questions remain as the oral arguments were dominated by the usual search for a legal precedent.
Google Cloud Platform has announced a new solution aimed at enabling citizen developers to automate processes and create applications in a no-code environment. The new Business Application Platform intends to help enterprise customers modernize legacy apps and create new business channels.
Startup API businesses don’t deserve to exist unless they aggregate. They can gain advantage by aggregating datasets or uses of data. The opportunities to aggregate across big players are highly contested, but there is a new area to gain advantage: Data, and especially data with machine learning.
The COVID pandemic has pressured businesses more than ever to communicate with and serve customers without needing physical interaction. This article looks at how with the right approach, APIs can transform the way companies interact with customers by creating one seamless chain of communication.
The Chicago Reporter has claimed that the CPD has shut down an API that had been used to provide access to arrest records. The publication is contending that the removal of access to the API is in direct retaliation to an article they published that was critical of statements made by the CPD
Over the past four years, NSW Health Pathology invested heavily in API-led connectivity. With coverage from Justin Hendry, writing for IT.com, we learn how this investment has paved the way for them to pivot handily to building world class public-facing services during the coronavirus pandemic.
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.
New York City has turned to Twilio and it's API-based communications platform to help power its cloud-based contact tracing initiative in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. It's a reminder of how APIs are a key driver that allow organizations to be agile in response to changes in market conditions.
One significant challenge posed by digital transformation is the need for organizations to leverage existing technology investments, which often hold business and technical intellectual property built up over many years. The combination of integration and API is a powerful tool.
Twitter has announced a complete rewrite of the company’s developer policies. This is intended to clearly communicate appropriate developer use cases. Additionally, the new policies are expanded to include a more direct path for developers that are hoping to engage in non-commercial research.
OpenWater is opening up its software platform to third party developers. Through the OpenWater SDK and API, third parties can directly integrate application and review management to their list of services. Prior to the API and SDK, users had to outsource the process to OpenWater.
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.
The team at vpnMentor has discovered an issue that left exposed millions of records containing personal data belonging to the customers of an international fitness retailer. Decathlon, a sporting goods retailer based in France, operated the ElasticSearch server at the center of the debacle.
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.
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.
The move from a monolithic experience to a microservice, API-driven approach is a challenge for legacy development teams. But the payback, in terms of delivering smaller objects and being able to respond to business demands in real time makes an API-first approach more tenable over the long term.
Instagram's legacy API platform will deprecate on March 2, 2020. The features which Facebook will keep alive will be accessed through the Facebook Graph API. With the many privacy concerns Facebook has faced in the past few years, privacy is a major concern of the transition.
One of the most complex topics, especially for organizations that are new to the API economy, is the concept of an API ecosystem. This whitepaper was written to help you demystify what an ecosystem is and its role in your overall API strategy. This is the second of our ongoing series of whitepapers.
