The next generation of software is here, and it's API-as-a-Product. In our featured post, Art Anthony looks at many API-first companies on the market to consider: which will be the next Twilio?
One of the biggest challenges facing microservices architecture is growth. That might sound counterintuitive, but it’s often the case, particularly in legacy modernization. The more a microservice architecture expands, which often equates to more of the existing monolith broken down, the denser the web of microservices becomes. The solution? Service mesh. The aim of using a service mesh is, to use Google’s words from the video linked just below, to increase product velocity, manage the complexity of code, admit heterogeneity and empower developers. If you’re working in microservices, that’s bound to sound pretty appealing...
A new generation of API-as-a-Product companies is among us. Which will be the next Twilio? When talking about API-first companies, or the idea of API-as-a-product, it’s difficult not to keep harping on about Twilio. Used by more than 172,000 companies and with hundreds of millions of dollars raised in funding, Twilio is a juggernaut among API companies. While Twilio may have been among the first of this breed, it definitely won’t be the last. Below we’ll be looking at a number of these new API-first companies. We’ll attempt to determine what (if anything) they have in common, and consider whether there’s another unicorn out there in the making right now...
What are some KPIs that API companies should monitor? Here are 13 useful infrastructure and product metrics. When it comes to API observability and analytics, your metrics can be thought of as forming a triangle: infrastructure metrics for stability, application metrics for solving business operational problems, and product metrics for managing classical business issues. A recently launched API will focus more on improving design and usage while sacrificing reliability and backward compatibility. Whereas a team supporting a well-adopted enterprise API may concentrate more on driving additional feature adoption per account and give precedence to reliability and backward compatibility over design...
APIs are the greatest open secret in SEO! They allow us to broaden the scope of possibilities by easily accessing data from different sources or providing it to various tools. SEO professionals of varying technical abilities often use APIs to enrich strategic reporting, uncover insights, or even reduce errors and decrease implementation time by automating workflows. Let’s take a look at the different strategic advantages of APIs for SEO. One of the most frequent uses of APIs in SEO is the automation of reports. SEO professionals often have many tasks to manage and very little time to spend on time-consuming reports...
We review APIcheck, an open-source tool by OWASP that helps scan an API for critical vulnerabilities.
Having the ability to run checks on an API is vital. Providing adequate functionality and security requires testing the API and ensuring that it matches specifications.
Enter APICheck, a tool recently open-sourced by OWASP. In our space, OWASP is most well-known for its discussion of API vulnerabilities, and as such, they are a prime candidate for the creation of a product to scan for those vulnerabilities. Below, we’re going to look at their answer to the consistency question, APICheck, and give a general impression of using it.
Follow this guide to create a headless CMS in just ten steps. A CMS provides all the tools required to manage content and apply different layouts to a website out-of-the-box.
There are many different CMSs available, such as WordPress, Wix, Contentful, or Squarespace, which can be used to generate websites and web applications. A CMS provides visual editing interfaces, templates, custom code, and other content management capabilities, all from a single environment. WordPress, one of the most powerful options, boasts many plugins to extend behavior and introduce powerful eCommerce abilities.
So, now the next question arises: what is a headless CMS?...
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