Service mesh for all
Thursday, September 12, 2019 by Richard Harris
Kong Inc. announced the release of an open-source project called Kuma. Based on the popular open-source Envoy proxy, Kuma is a universal control plane that addresses limitations of first-generation service mesh technologies by enabling seamless management of any service on the network. Kuma runs on any platform – including Kubernetes, containers, virtual machines,...
Document signing API from HelloSign opens rift for disruption
Friday, October 19, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
The corporate world has came a long way from the days without computers. Today, however, many business processes can’t even be done without the assistance of some sort of machine. In fact, adopting new technologies that make businesses more efficient and secure is causing an arms race amongst the big names. It’s only natural then that the old pen and pa...
eBay developer APIs get udpated
Wednesday, August 15, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
eBay has announced in a post on the company's blog that new image recognition technology is now available for developers with their Search API in conjunction with a host of new API updates. The new RESTful API is open source that utilizes the Linux Foundation's OpenAPI specifications. In the blog post, eBay says that the new eBay API was developed "To furth...
OverOps Platform helps DevOps find misbehaving code with ML
Thursday, August 2, 2018 by Christian Hargrave
Machine learning meets bug detection with the announcement that OverOps made about the release of their new platform. DevOps teams will soon be armed with net new machine data to effectively evaluate the reliability of software they promote and implement a culture of accountability within their organizations, says OverOps with the release fo their platform. At its core,...
Personal Financial Wellness API announced at Digital Banking Summit
Wednesday, June 14, 2017 by Richard Harris
Life and technology are becoming inseparable, with services like Amazon Alexa providing on-demand insights and forward-looking advice through the data we willingly provide to them. When it comes to leveraging that data to guide consumers in achieving financial balance and wellness, however, this type of simple, digital personalized guidance is lacking. This is surprisin...
Quovo creates a comprehensive API Suite for FinTech
Monday, November 21, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Quovo has announced the launch of its Account Authentication API. This RESTful API allows developers to instantly connect to financial accounts and verify key account data, helping to confirm account ownership, facilitate payments and cash transfers, and streamline the process of opening and funding new accounts. Together with Quovo's flagship Aggregation API, the Quovo...
Apigee Releases New API Management Platform for Digital Commerce
Thursday, August 25, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Apigee has released the Apigee Commerce APIx platform, a software accelerator designed to help companies that are selling products online facilitate their API-powered digital commerce initiatives. The Commerce APIx offers a set of open-source, ready-to-use digital commerce APIs and a developer portal to help companies build a modern digital commerce program. ...
Why APIs and UserPermissioned Data Are the Next Frontier for Financial Apps
Saturday, July 30, 2016 by Nick Thomas
All eyes are on the financial technology sector this year, as venture capital-backed fintech startups are poised to exceed last year’s funding by 36 percent. Robo advisors, mobile payments, personal finance managers and online lenders, to name a few, are all making waves in the futures of the consumers that use them and the financial institutions that don’t know whether...
Portworx Releases PXEnterprise Platform for ContainerDefined Storage in Production Environments
Friday, June 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
Portworx has released the PX-Enterprise platform offering a purpose-built, enterprise-class storage container-defined storage for containers used in production environments. The company says that by using PX-Enterprise, companies can cut the cost of traditional storage arrays and virtual machines by up to 70 percent. Portworx reports early success with application ...
How Webscale's Application Delivery Platform Supports Rapid Deployment
Sunday, May 1, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Andrew Humber, Head of Marketing at Webscale, to learn about recent updates to the company’s application delivery platform. ADM: Describe Webscale’s technology.Humber: Webscale gives e-commerce and enterprise customers complete control over their web applications, delivering infinite scalability, high performance, security and monitoring in...
Cloud Hosting Provider iland Announces New API and SDKs
Monday, April 4, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Cloud hosting provider iland has announced its new cloud API, providing companies with the ability to access cloud data, deploy workloads, and integrate the iland cloud into their own management tools. Along with the Restful API release, the company is releasing Python, Java and Golang software development kits (SDKs).The iland Enterprise Cloud Services-Advanced Securit...
Shippable Announces New Continuous Delivery Platform
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Shippable has announced a new continuous delivery which offers end-to-end deployment pipelines that help eliminate the need to create custom automation and integrations. It also gives developers flexibility and choice of development tools and deployment options, and provides an application delivery path with support for n-tier applications as well as cloud-native techno...
Array Networks Release Offers Elliptical Curve Cryptography for ADC Physical and Virtual Environments
Friday, February 26, 2016 by Richard Harris
Array Networks has released APV version 8.6, a new software release for Array’s APV Series Application Delivery Controllers (ADCs). The release offers newly added support for elliptical curve cryptography (ECC) - the next generation of public-key cryptography - APV version 8.6 provides improved security while requiring less computational power, resulting in faster proce...
Akana's API Management Platform Now Offers API Description Language Mediation
Saturday, October 31, 2015 by Richard Harris
Akana’s API Management platform now offers support for the leading API description languages, including the ability to translate between them. The new API description language mediation provides the opportunity to translate between different API description languages allowing the platform to make API publication and consumption faster and easier by allowing API adm...
Are You Losing Sleep Over REST API
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 by Sammy Tam
REST API provides values in the places where it actually makes sense, and not because it is technologically chic.In this day and age, “buzzwords” have been developed for almost everything. Since the web is full of information available to everyone pretty much everywhere, these terms are often picked up within relevant communities and greatly hyped. The software eng...
DreamFactory REST API Platform Now Available on Verizon Cloud
Wednesday, August 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
DreamFactory’s REST API platform is being combined with Verizon’s cloud services to deliver a cloud-first development environment to help developer's prototype, deploy and scale applications for mobile, web, and IoT. The new DreamFactory-Verizon Partner Solutions portal provides a way for developers to access RESTful API services hosted on IaaS, plus the portal fac...
Google Cloud Deployment Manager Ready for Production Use
Thursday, August 13, 2015 by Richard Harris
Google has announced that its Cloud Deployment Manager is now generally available and ready for production usage. The Cloud Deployment Manager facilitates the deployment of Google Cloud Platform resources including virtual machines, networks, and storage to power applications..Deployment Manager allows developers to specify the resources they want instead of the process...
Top 5 Tips for RESTful APIs and Closing the Loop on OAuth2.0
Friday, May 8, 2015 by Brian Alexakis
Many of the devices and gadgets that comprise the Internet of Things require that end users sync data to cloud services via a 1st party app. End user data is then exposed to developers over a RESTful API from the hardware vendor cloud services. It is up to each vendor to implement the OAuth2 protocol and define their own RESTful API for their service and as such there i...
Mashape Releases Kong Open Source Management Layer for APIs
Friday, May 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
Mashape is launching Kong, an open source platform for managing microservices and APIs. Using NGINX as its proxy server, Kong enables developers to create plugins for authentication, rate limiting, transformations, and many other common utilities to expedite the creation of next-generation software in mobile, IoT, and the web.Kong is intended to be a replacement for leg...
SOA is Not a Mobile Backend
Friday, May 1, 2015 by Bill Appleton
The rise of mobile devices finally pushed the adoption of web services into the mainstream of application development. But years before this, companies used web services to build sophisticated service-oriented architectures for application development and integration. Some of the API management companies have even tried to adopt SOA systems for the new world of mobile d...
AnyPresence Launches JustAPIs Platform to Build and Deploy RESTful APIs
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
AnyPresence, an enterprise backend-as-a-service (MBaaS) provider, has released a new service called JustAPIs - a solution for building and deploying modern RESTful APIs.JustAPIs is designed to solve the API building challenge from the perspective of the enterprise app developer. The platform provides a quick, easy way to define and deploy APIs with specific signatures (...
Red Hat Adds Enterprise Mobility Options Including Expansion of FeedHenry Platform
Thursday, March 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
Open source solution provider Red Hat has announced a new emphasis on enterprise mobility, leveraging its enterprise-grade open source technologies. This focus is in response to the demand for faster and continuous development cycles that challenge traditional IT infrastructure and development methodologies. Red Hats efforts includes services that companies to become mo...
MediaTek Labs Launches New Cloud Sandbox Data Platform for Prototyping IoT Apps
Monday, March 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
MediaTek Labs has announced the general availability of its new Cloud Sandbox data platform to help developers create Internet of Things (IoT) applications. The new free service offers storage of and access to data from wearable and IoT devices during prototyping.It helps address the challenges developers face in the early stages of device creation for management of lar...
Lifestreams Technologies Beta Testing New SaaS Private Label Timeline Service for Web and Mobile Apps
Tuesday, October 28, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
A new SaaS private-label timeline service has been launched in beta by Lifestreams Technologies. The company has announced the Timeline SDK for web developers and content providers to integrate cloud-based timelines (activity streams) into web and mobile app experiences.The SDK helps developers integrate Lifestreams’ timeline cloud service and includes RESTful, JavaScri...
Espresso Logic Provides a New Common REST API for MongoDB and SQL Databases
Monday, August 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
Espresso Logic is launching a new common REST API for developing the backend for web and mobile apps. These REST APIs provide real-time access from MongoDB and SQL databases without the need to copy data across sources. Unlike analytical use cases, security and business logic is included and can be used for both read and write operations. To provide a universal API...
RacoWireless to Offer Developers Cloud Based M2M Development Tools
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
RacoWireless, a machine-to-machine (M2M) service provider, is making available the Omega DevCloud to facilitate communication with IoT applications in a standardized environment. The platform will assist device communication by providing an interface that is able to take device messages and commands, in any format and on virtually any device, and translat...
New Services for App Developers and Publishers Announced at Google IO
Thursday, June 26, 2014 by Richard Harris
One of the new services announced at Google I/O was the Google Play Developer Publishing API to help scale release operations. The new API will let developers upload APKs, manage in-app products and localized store listings. There will also be the ability to integrate publishing operations with release processes and toolchain through a RESTful API. This the Go...
Leadbolt Refreshes Dashboard To Make It Easier For You To Make Money
Monday, June 23, 2014 by Richard Harris
If you currently using Leadbolt and missed the announcement you might be in a bit of shock. They have just completely revamped their dashboard for developers from the ground ground up! The Next-gen platform streamlines the enhanced tools and features offered within the Leadbolt product set. By leveraging an extensive revamp of the developer-focused app monetiz...
Dropcam Announces API Beta Program
Wednesday, June 11, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Dropcam is a cloud-based Wi-Fi video monitoring service with free live streaming, two-way talk and remote viewing. There are two devices available to use the service, the Dropcam and Dropcam Pro.The system works with the Dropcam camera sending encrypted video to the cloud. The cloud then securely streams video to mobile devices. With the optional Cloud Recording feature...
Docker Announces Docker Version 1.0 and New Docker Hub Cloud Service
Tuesday, June 10, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Docker is an open platform for developers to build, ship, and run distributed applications. Consisting of Docker Engine, a portable, lightweight runtime and packaging tool, and Docker Hub, a cloud service for sharing applications and automating workflows, Docker enables apps to be assembled from components and helps to eliminate the friction between development, QA, and...
FeedHenry Offers New Enhancements to Mobile Cloud Offerings Including mBaaS and API Management
Thursday, May 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
FeedHenry has introduced FeedHenry 3, the latest version of its mobile cloud that offers new features around its core mBaaS and API management, role-based development, team collaboration and support for a wide range of app development frameworks including Backbone, Angular and Xamarin. The platform now offers increased support for a range of client app develop...
Mashery Provides API Insights with Video Series
Thursday, May 8, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Mashery, an API management company, has developed a series of API Video Briefs, which are short-form videos that highlight insights from a number of Mashery customers, employees and other industry experts. Each video contains a single message that, as the name suggests, offers a brief insight into the challenges associated with API management. The API Vid...
IBM to Purchase Cloudant Database as a service (DBaaS) Provider
Saturday, March 22, 2014 by Richard Harris
IBM has announced an agreement to acquire Cloudant a database-as-a-service (DBaaS) provider. Cloudant, an active participant and contributor to the open source database community Apache CouchDBTM, offers elastic scalability and innovative mobile device synchronization through its JSON cloud-based data service which allows mobile and web developers to stor...
Knetik Media Launches Knetik Cloud for Game Platform Services
Tuesday, March 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Knetik Media is launching the Knetik Cloud which will offer content publishers the ability to save money and time while expanding the breadth of user engagement. The cloud service will organize, manage and deliver content on a platform that is multi-device aware and multi-lingual capable.The Knetik Cloud enhances the user experience through an advanced gamification enga...
Espresso Logic Launches New Support to Create RESTful APIs from Stored Procedures to Build Mobile Apps
Wednesday, March 12, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Espresso Logic has announced new features that enable developers to quickly create secure RESTful APIs for stored procedures. Using the new functionality, developers can create mobile applications that leverage a company’s investment in stored procedures. The Espresso Designer service exposes stored procedures as REST/JSON resources while the support...
