The coronavirus pandemic shifted the way we work and use technology, which means big things for the API industry.
But pandemic changes aren’t the only challenges facing API users and manufacturers. With an ongoing court battle between Google and Oracle over the functional elements of API systems, an explosion in cybercrime, and changing needs throughout the economy, the industry has a lot to address going into 2021 and beyond.
Here, we explore these challenges and more to give you a better picture of what you face in the year ahead. Here’s what you should know...
Curity has recently released Version 5.4.0, which offers a Community Edition giving developers access to Curity’s identity management tools for free. We’ve gone ahead and popped the hood of Curity Identity Server Version 5.4.0 Community Edition for a thorough review to see if it’s worth your while to add to your development stack. Without further ado, here’s our review of the Curity Identity server community edition. For the sake of this review, we’re using Docker to launch and run Curity. If you’d like to take a look for yourself, open Terminal and input the following...
Satisfying customer demands has become a daunting task in the 21st century, especially in the banking sector. Thus, this has made many financial institutions rethink how to carry out business and offer a rich customer experience to meet consumers’ expectations in the digital era. A prominent solution to remain ahead of the curve is to adopt open banking APIs and enable your users to interact with other service providers seamlessly. With endless available banking opportunities, your customers will easily take charge of their financial lives. They would manage multiple service providers through one single bank account...
At Curity, we have been asked this question many times: why can’t we get an API to authenticate our users? The reasoning behind that question is simple: our customers don’t want to send their users to an authentication website from their app, but rather keep them in the app. The answer, however, is less simple; authenticating a user takes a few things for granted. These expectations make for quite a different type of API. First of all, since authentication is a journey, an API client has to adhere to the protocol when communicating with the API...
Application-Level Profile Semantics (ALPS) is a new format for describing web services. While it’s more limited in scope to defining the “what” of an API, it does promise some interesting gains in refocusing effort in the API design space. Today, we’re going to look at ALPS and outline its core features. We’ll also look at the new open-source ALPS Unified Utility, a new offering from its creators that promises to generate specifications from the definition.
Here's some Async API documentation generators that automatically document your AsyncAPI definitions. When you’re creating different API endpoints, a point will come when you start forgetting the name of those API endpoints. Also, from a business point of view, you’re not the only one who’ll be consuming it, right? Thus, it’s best practice to document all the APIs you build, explaining each endpoint to help future API consumers. This will make your API easy to understand and let you focus on more development and improvement...
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