Why Hasn’t There Been Another Stripe or Twilio?
Stripe and Twilio are held up as shining examples of how to do APIs in our world. This shining blueprint of how to do APIs...
API Business Models
Internal and external API monetization, generating revenue from customers through direct or indirect API business models.
API Lifecycle Management
How to run an API program and manage the full API lifecycle governance across all the organization.
REST & gRPC – API Communication in Microservices
API Communication, in the recent story of Computer Science, is one of the most discussed threads, especially with the massive adoption of microservices style for...
API Security & Identity
API security & identity news and industry trends including OAuth2.0, OpenID Connect, smart tokens and User-Managed Access.
An Introduction to API Authentication
APIs operate using the web, but like web applications, many API require some sort of authentication or authorization before you can access the valuable resources...
API Testing & Monitoring
Best practices on API testing & monitoring capabilities from Agile to DevOps and APIOps methodologies.
How is API Observability different from Monitoring and what advantages does it provide
When it comes to API visibility there’s recently been a lot of different terminology used, from monitoring, through analytics to observability. It’s instructive to take...
DX, API Design & Documentation
Best practices on Developer experience and Developer portal, API design principles and API documentation methodologies
Secrets and Personally Identifiable Information (PII) Across Our API Definitions
As API providers and consumers we tend to have access to a significant amount of credentials, keys, tokens, as well as personally identifiable data...
GraphQL
Recent GraphQL technologies on design, security and monitoring, for frontend, backend, and high scalability applications.
GraphQL API or REST API? Why not have BOTH?
GraphQL2REST: Automatically generate a RESTful API from your existing GraphQL API You should read this if you: 1. Already have a GraphQL API, but your...
