Hey, what does an API do?
I often talk to people who understand the value of the Apps they use on mobile devices and tablets but don’t quite get where the idea of an API fits in and the value it provides. Let’s relate this to …
View ArticleChecklist before launching an API Management project
Your company is ready for API adoption and you are asked to prepare an API Management RFP for an API Management project. Here are a few tips that will help you be well prepared before contacting the...
View ArticleAPI Management weekly digest – Nov 10th
This week: Talend acquires Restlet, a leader in Cloud-Based API Design and Testing; Axway annual virtual Spark event; DBS takes the wraps off API platform; Key Steps to Building and Managing an...
View ArticleHow API Management for couriers is utilized in Asia
SF-Express is a large Chinese courier company who has established a huge collection of information, market development, logistics and distribution, express delivery and other business institutions and...
View ArticleFive reasons to use an API Management solution to manage your third-party APIs
Third-party APIs are exploding in importance and organizations are leveraging them with great success. For example, Amazon.com released its API so that website developers could more easily access...
View ArticleWhat is an API Platform?
The term API Platform has been used synonymously by some vendors with API Management, Full Lifecycle API Management and even with the term API Gateway. Everyone loves to spice up a subject with the...
View ArticleWhat are API metrics and how do you measure them?
APIs are priceless. APIs allow companies to tap into their complex technology make-ups to create new digital experiences, build new services to grow revenue and provide security. API adoption leads to...
View Article3 Reasons to Create an API Platform for your API Practice
Having an API doesn’t matter if nobody’s using it. That’s from the O’Reilly book “APIs: A Strategy Guide”. Gartner, in the 2019 Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management says: Effective API...
View ArticleFour problems with screen scraping that an API-First approach solves
What is screen scraping? Screen scraping is what a developer might do to get access to information that’s usually only shared via a webpage. The idea of scraping the screen, meaning, programmatically...
View ArticleYou’re thinking about contact tracing wrong
Dear New York, As I watch the city and local businesses be devastated by the impact of the virus, I see you making a big mistake in the approach to contact tracing. One that’s already costing us...
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API Lifecycle Management: Deprecation and Sunsetting
APIs are products and go through the same lifecycle as all products. They get created, see some usage, get improved over time based on feedback and product management, but eventually, they will be...
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API linting with Spectral: What is it and how does it work?
API linting is the process of making sure that APIs are not just technically correct (which is the realm of validation tooling), but that they also comply with a set of additional constraints that...
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Why your API platform needs to be open
API platforms are an essential ingredient of digital transformation. APIs provide digital access to assets and capabilities of your organization, and all APIs together (your API platform) are the...
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Hands-on with Spectral: Using API linting for better API design and API...
Spectral is an open-source API linting tool that allows users to write rules which then can be used to check API descriptions. Typically, these would be in description languages such as OpenAPI,...
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Checklist before launching an API Management project
Your company is ready for API adoption and you are asked to prepare an API Management RFP for an API Management project. Here are a few tips that will help you be well prepared before contacting the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
API Management weekly digest – Nov 10th
This week: Talend acquires Restlet, a leader in Cloud-Based API Design and Testing; Axway annual virtual Spark event; DBS takes the wraps off API platform; Key Steps to Building and Managing an...
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How API Management for couriers is utilized in Asia
SF-Express is a large Chinese courier company who has established a huge collection of information, market development, logistics and distribution, express delivery and other business institutions and...
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