ImmuniWeb Neuron web security scanning
Friday, June 10, 2022 by Richard Harris
ImmuniWeb has announced the launch of ImmuniWeb Neuron, a web application and API web security scanning solution that is based on the award-winning ImmuniWeb AI Platform available.
ImmuniWeb Neuron is designed to rapidly scan tens, hundreds, or even thousands of web applications and APIs for vulnerabilities, weaknesses, and misconfigurations. It c...
Testing App for API calls lands from Speedscale
Wednesday, January 19, 2022 by Brittany Hainzinger
Speedscale, the API test-automation software company, today launches Speedscale CLI, a free observability tool that inspects detects, and maps API calls on local applications or containers. The offering underscores the importance of continued and proactive API testing to quickly detect and debug defects within a shifting array of upstream and downstream interdependencie...
New features from WSO2 API Manager
Friday, April 10, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
APIs are the core building blocks of digital businesses—assembling data, events and services from within the organization, throughout ecosystems, and across devices. This is driving demands to maximize adoption and reuse across internal and external portals and API marketplaces; ensure API security; and support modern architectures, including containers, microserv...
From monolith to microservices: Why Credit Karma made the switch
Thursday, December 12, 2019 by Richard Harris
Credit Karma, the personal finance technology company powering more than 100M members, migrated from monolith to microservices, which they say has vastly increased developer efficiency for its engineering team, which makes up more than half of Credit Karma’s 1000+ employee base.
We caught up with Nick Nance, VP of Engineering at Credit Karma, to chat about w...
API visual editor released from Stoplight
Wednesday, August 21, 2019 by Richard Harris
Stoplight, the enterprise API Design Management company, released Stoplight Studio, an API visual editor enabling faster, more collaborative and efficient OpenAPI (formerly Swagger) development for software teams.
Stoplight API Design Studio is a collaborative visual editor that allows users to build and share APIs with their team in minutes. It eliminates...
AI for cybersecurity
Tuesday, November 27, 2018 by Richard Harris
As organizations struggle to deal with the growing sophistication of hackers and the influx in data breaches, it's becoming clear that AI could be a critical tool for automatically defending applications from cyber attacks - but there are challenges to overcome. Ivan Novikov, the CEO of AI security company Wallarm, offers some insight below on how AI can be utilized...
Postman survey finds 66 percent of devs use APIs regularly
Wednesday, October 3, 2018 by Richard Harris
Postman has released its 2018 State of the API Survey. This year’s survey was sent to the nearly 5 million worldwide members of the Postman community, to better understand the API developers’ workflow, pain points, and perspective for where the API space is headed.
Already an essential part of software development for web, IoT, mobile and AI applications,...
Four tips for better collections in API development
Wednesday, March 28, 2018 by Richard Harris
Whether your collections are for testing or documentation, collections are a way for humans to collaborate. A good collection clearly describes the behavior and usage of your API. These 2 types of collections typically have a different audience, are written by different authors and will contain different content. For these reasons, it’s a good practice to maintain separ...
Build a mobile API ecosystem that is high performing and reliable
Saturday, September 2, 2017 by Shlomi Gian
Application Program Interfaces (API's) represent an effective way to build and manage mobile services. By using API's - a set of routines, protocols and tools for building software applications - application developers no longer have to buy technology software or hardware. Instead, they can simply plug into a growing open ecosystem of API-driven services. It is simple t...
The future of cloud communications
Friday, January 27, 2017 by Richard Harris
As the popularity of using Cloud-enabled platforms grows, the market for such features is quickly ballooning in size. I'm sure you've heard about this latest trend in both tech and non-tech industries of adopting the power that a Cloud platform can provide, and in turn, some really special things are happening as its evolution continues down the road. But what's the fut...
Alooma service launches to secure pipelines that stream data in realtime
Friday, January 27, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
Alooma, a data pipeline company, has announced the general availability of their newest service which creates secure pipelines that stream data in real-time from any source including databases, applications, APIs, etc. to cloud data warehouse platforms for faster business decision-making. Their solution replaces the decades-old batch uploading approach to data integrati...
Okta Releases New API Security Platform
Tuesday, September 6, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Okta has released a new platform to provide API security and access management for businesses that are building products, sharing data with partners, and enabling third-party developer ecosystems. In a statement on the introduction of the new platform, The Okta said, “The new API Access Management product solves modern challenges for both developers and IT. Every A...
SnapLogic Announces New Partner Program for Connecting Cloud and OnPremise Applications
Thursday, June 23, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
SnapLogic offers a unified data and application integration platform as a service (iPaaS), and has announced a new partner program, SnapLogic Partner Connect. The program is intended to provide a global ecosystem of technology, services and reseller partners that help companies in their efforts associated big data technologies, software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications ...
Biggest News From Facebook F8 Developer Conference is Custom Messenger Bots
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
During its F8 developer conference in San Francisco, Facebook announced a number of new products and services for developers. Among the biggest news is the introduction of bots for the Messenger Platform which provides developers with the ability to reach users where they are with a new send and receive API. Developers can build a custom bot in Messenger, providing...
Red Hat's Mobile App Platform Includes New Push Notification Capabilities
Wednesday, December 30, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The main focus of the recently released Version 3.6 of the Feed Henry’s (which is now owned by Red Hat) cross platform Mobile Application Platform (MHP) is the integration of the Aerogear UnifiedPush Server into the platform which provides improved iOS, Android and Windows Phone push notification functionality. Also new is Windows 10 support.With the UnifiedPush Server ...
The Unsung Side Of Mobile Apps: Bootstrapping Development With Mobile Backend Services
Monday, December 7, 2015 by Mike Thompson
There’s more to a successful mobile app than a slick UI and cross-platform availability. Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS) makes developing compelling, full featured apps faster and easier.When building applications, every budding developer knows the temptation of fixating on the UI at the expense of algorithms, data structures and state management. After al...
Sauce Labs Adds Real iOS and Android Devices to Mobile App Testing Platform
Monday, September 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Sauce Labs is moving beyond automated iOS & Android emulators to real devices with the launch of its public beta of its Real Device Cloud. The new platform will provide the ability to test with virtual and real devices. The new offering will first provide access to real Apple iPhone 6 and Samsung Galaxy 4S and 5S phones with other models to be offered in the future....
Companies Battle to Push Out New Applications at an Accelerated Pace
Friday, June 12, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
A new study of companies across the globe indicates that enterprise are paying close attention to the need to create better and more expansive applications and do so at a faster rate than ever before.The study was commissioned by CA Technologies and conducted by Oxford Economics. It surveyed 200 senior business and IT executives with knowledge of and responsibility for ...
Splunk Cloud Now Available on 10 AWS Regions
Monday, April 20, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Splunk has announced the general availability of the Splunk Cloud through nine Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) global regions and will soon be available in AWS GovCloud. Company’s can choose SaaS or self-managed software deployments of the Splunk Cloud which offers an enterprise-ready cloud service with a 100 percent uptime service level agreement (SLA) and scalability of 10...
Nexmo Releases Chat App API in Beta
Tuesday, April 14, 2015 by Richard Harris
Nexmo has released a beta version of its new Chat App API that allows companies to communicate with mobile users one-on-one on their preferred chat application. The new API consolidates all chat messages into a company’s existing communication platforms, eliminating the need to manually manage communications over individual chat applications. The Chat App API does ...
Microsoft Releases Azure App Cloud Service to Build Web and Mobile Apps
Saturday, March 28, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft has released the Azure App Service, a new cloud service that enables developers to build web and mobile apps for any platform and device. App Service is an integrated solution by Microsoft to help developers streamline development while enabling integration with on-premises and SaaS systems.The Azure App Service brings together the capabilities from Azure Webs...
Upgrade to Facebook Graph API v2.0 or Your App Will Break
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 by Richard Harris
Facebook’s Graph API v2.0 is the new Login and a Login Review process where Facebook looks at and approves any permissions that your app requests beyond public profile, e-mail and friend list. The clock is ticking for all apps requesting these additional permissions to undergo review by April 30, 2015, when Facebook will deprecate Graph API v1.0. Not doing so could...
Appboy Launches Conversion Tracking to Measure and Improve App Marketing
Friday, January 23, 2015 by Richard Harris
Appboy, which offers a marketing automation platform for app publishers, has recently launched conversion tracking, providing the opportunity to access a more comprehensive view of campaign effectiveness. Conversion tracking provides the ability to set custom campaign goals and monitor the actions users take after receiving a message. The AppBoy platform provide to...
Google Web Search API is Retiring
Tuesday, September 2, 2014 by Richard Harris
As promised in 2010, the Google Web Search API is being put out to pasture. The service will cease operations on September 29th, 2014.Google is suggesting that those using the Web Search API check out the Custom Search API. There are two editions of Google Custom Search: Custom Search Engine (basic edition) and Google Site Search (business edition).Google Site Search pr...
Google Provides Android Developers With New C++ Cross Platform Tools
Tuesday, July 29, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Google has updated new tools that are now available to game developers to facilitate cross platform development. These include: updated Play Games cross-platform C++ SDK, updated Play Games SDK for iOS, and new game services alerts in the developer console.Updated Play Games C++ SDKGoogle has updated the Google Play Games C++ SDK with more cross-platform...
Appcelerator Adds Enhancements to its Mobile Platform
Friday, July 18, 2014 by Richard Harris
Appcelerator has made enhancements to its mobile platform. The company says that platform is “smarter, more connected and more flexible than ever.”The company’s flagship is Appcelerator Titanium, an open, extensible development environment for creating native apps across different mobile devices and OSs including iOS, Android, and BlackBerry, as well as hybrid...
Spotify Releases New Web API for Web Apps
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 by Richard Harris
Spotify has released anew Web API based on industry-standard REST principles that allows apps to query the Spotify catalogue and users’ playlists through standard HTTP requests. This Web API lets developers include album art, 30 second track previews, top tracks per artist per country, album genres, and much more, within web apps.By using standard OAuth 2.0 me...
Load Impact Releases Cloud Based App Load Testing Software as a Service
Tuesday, April 15, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Load Impact has released its cloud-based load testing Software as a Service for mobile apps, APIs and websites that can simulate traffic generated from a variety of mobile operating systems, popular browsers, and mobile networks including 3G, GSM and LTE.According to the company only about half of companies with mobile sites or apps today currently test their mobile cod...
New Marmalade Juice Recompiles iOS Projects Natively for Android
Friday, March 21, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Marmalade has announced the release of Marmalade Juice which recompiles iOS projects natively for Android. The tool comes as standard with all Marmalade licenses including Community.Marmalade Juice lets developers using Xcode, Objective-C and all the iOS APIs to deploy to Android including the Google Play or Amazon App Store. The iOS app will be recompiled to ...
Khronos Releases OpenGL ES 3.1 Specification
Monday, March 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The Khronos Group has announced the release of the OpenGL ES 3.1 specification, bringing new functionality to its royalty-free 3D graphics API that is used on nearly all of the world’s mobile devices. OpenGL ES 3.1 provides access to state-of-the-art graphics processing unit (GPU) functionality with portability across mobile and embedded operating systems and ...
Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 Are Updated
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 by Richard Harris
The Microsoft Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2013 – March 2014 Update is now available to download. The March 2014 Update ships with a number of new features that improves support for Office 365 Cloud Business App and apps for Office/SharePoint in Visual Studio 2013 RTM. It also allows developers to build new types of apps for Off...
Appurify Launches Appurify Mobile Platform (AMP) – the First Ever Solution to Optimize Both Quality and Performance of Mobile Apps and Websites
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 by Richard Harris
AMP
Allows Developers to Test the Quality and Performance of Mobile Apps and
Websites Pre-Release, On Any Platform and Device, At ScaleAppurify, offering a unique approach to mobile performance optimization today
announces the Appurify Mobile Platform (AMP). Appurify is the first solution of
its kind that allows developers to immedi...
Amazon Shakes Up Developer Site: Offers New Dedicated Pages for Gaming and HTML5 App Developers
Monday, January 13, 2014 by Richard Harris
Amazon just can’t leave things alone announcing a number of updates to its Developer Portal. So what have they done?Streamlined App SubmissionThey’ve made it easier to check an existing Android .apk for compatibility with the Amazon Appstore. Just drag your .apk to the updated testing widget on the Home page and get results in seconds. If your app is ready to go (a...
Lotaris® in‐app Commerce Launches On Android
Monday, September 30, 2013 by Richard Harris
Lotaris, has announced that its in-appCommerce service now supports
Android. Developers using Lotaris in-appCommerce
now have a one-stop solution to monetize in multiple Android app stores through
in-app purchasing.
For Android app stores like
Google Play (where policy allows), the Opera Mobile Store, SlideME and GetJar,
Lotaris in-appCommerce operates...
Feedly Opens API to App Developers
Friday, September 27, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
In an effort to move from a product to a platform, feedly has opened its API to developers via the feedly cloud. The company has been beta testing its services with developers on readers, vertical enterprise apps, dashboards, integration hubs, and vertical communities.
The feedly cloud API provides data access to millions of feeds and offers a personalization gr...
