Network exposure platform from Nokia
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
Nokia announced Network Exposure Platform, a new software offering that will expand and simplify the number of APIs available to operators, their partners, and customer channels to enable the creation of network powered applications for consumer, enterprise, and industrial customers.
Nokia Network Exposure Platform (NEP) is the first implementation of the&...
Verizon API portal brings 5G network to developers
Monday, February 19, 2024 by Richard Harris
Verizon network Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), which enable the developer community to access network services and capabilities, will be accessible to developers globally through various API aggregators, hyperscalers, and through Verizon’s own API portal. The incorporation of Verizon network services available through APIs into applications allow enter...
API management capabilities from Traefik Labs
Monday, November 13, 2023 by Richard Harris
Traefik Labs, the creator of Traefik Proxy, the ingress controller with more than 3 billion downloads, announced that they added new capabilities to Traefik Hub, the Kubernetes native and GitOps-driven Application Programming Interface (API) management solution. This latest update modernizes API runtime operations for platform teams that frequently encounter change...
Keeping startups agile and pivoting with MVPs
Wednesday, August 24, 2022 by Yasser Jilani
With low budgets and little time, startups need to react with speed and agility to launch products. Our product sat (and still sits) in the global online e-learning market, sized at approximately 250 billion US dollars in 2020, with the US contributing to 47% growth. The market was fierce and competitive, especially for new startups entering the market.
Minimum viabl...
JSON form widget lands from Appsmith
Monday, May 2, 2022 by Freeman Lightner
Appsmith announced the availability of its JSON Form Widget which saves developers huge amounts of time and makes it easier than ever to generate dynamic and static forms from data sets.
For example, developers can create dynamic sign-up forms, making it possible to have both the 'sign-in' and 'sign-up' forms on the same page. Conditional sw...
Building Better SDKs
Friday, January 14, 2022 by Nathan Darst
Nathan Darst is the Director of SDK Engineering for Kochava, a real-time data solutions company offering the leading omnichannel measurement and attribution solutions for data-driven marketers. Darst talks about building better SDKs, integrating them, using an SDK in code, what good APIs look like, and a ton more.
You've written some amazing code; so amazing...
Mitigating API attacks in 2022
Wednesday, January 5, 2022 by Richard Harris
Nathanael Coffing, co-founder and CSO of Cloudentity, is also a board member. Nathanael has over 20 years of management and architecture experience across identity, security, microservices, and IT domains. Prior to founding Cloudentity, he founded OrchIS.io and helped build numerous technology startups leveraging his experience at Sun, Oracle, Imperva, Washington Mutual...
Headless web architecture will change the internet
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 by Richard Harris
With the rapid shift to a digital-first world brought on by the pandemic, the pressure put on companies to provide strong digital experiences has only accelerated - from the need for fast-loading, responsive websites and highly accurate personalization to providing consumers with a consistent and seamless experience across channels. Delivering on these demands can be ch...
NEM Group has launched Symbol
Tuesday, March 16, 2021 by Brittany Hainzinger
NEM Group announced the launch of Symbol, its next-generation Proof-of-Stake+ (PoS+) Public Blockchain. Boasting enterprise-grade programmability and security, Symbol from NEM brings cutting edge technical features which can be leveraged by innovative projects building fintech, healthcare and supply chain products at the heart of the new economy. With the launch co...
Ballerina cloud native programming language launches
Friday, September 13, 2019 by Richard Harris
The growth of digital services, mobile apps, and connected devices are creating an explosion of endpoints, from APIs to events, data streams, microservices, serverless apps, and other digital assets. Developers today need a more modern and agile approach to connect to these endpoints than a traditional centralized enterprise service bus (ESB) can offer. Ballerina 1.0, n...
Red Hat launches a unified integration platform for cloudnative apps
Monday, February 18, 2019 by Richard Harris
Red Hat, Inc. has announced an expansion of its integrated product portfolio with new components and capabilities for connecting applications, data, and devices across hybrid architectures. The additions are featured in the latest release of Red Hat Integration, and include Red Hat AMQ Online, Red Hat AMQ Streams, new connectors for Red Hat Fuse Online, and end-to-...
Free mobile maps and traffic tiles for developers from new TomTom SDK
Thursday, September 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
When Google Maps increased the prices developers have to pay for the privlage of using them, many a developer went scurrying to find alternatives because even though there is a bit of "credit" they apply to your account, charges climb very quickly.
But at TechCrunch Disrupt SF, TomTom has announced that it will offer free maps and traffic tiles on its ...
What is an API and why are they important to developers
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 by Richard Harris
API is technically short for “Application Programming Interface”, and the term is tossed around in the programming industry so much, the overall complexity of what they are and how they can make your life easier - or a living hell gets overlooked. It’s amusing that there are so many street-talk definitions for what an API is too. One definition I found is “a set of...
Creating an app on Blockchain technology using JavaScript
Thursday, February 15, 2018 by Richard Harris
As Blockchain technology comes into its own, it is becoming increasingly important for software developers and programmers to acquaint themselves with the benefits which blockchain can provide the architects and users of digital platforms and applications.Lisk is an application platform whose Software Development Kit allows users to code in JavaScript to build Blockchai...
Audio Traffic API released by TomTom
Thursday, February 8, 2018 by Richard Harris
TomTom (TOM2) has announced the launch of TomTom Audio Traffic - personalised and relevant traffic reports delivered over voice to drivers in a non-intrusive way. Audio Traffic is available as an Application Programming Interface (API) for developers.Although personalised traffic information is one of the most requested features by daily commuters driving known routes, ...
Why runtime application selfprotection is critical for app security
Tuesday, June 20, 2017 by David Strom
Today most of us go about implementing security from the outside in. The common practice is to start by defining a perimeter and trying to defend it with various security tools. Even though perimeters have been porous for more than a decade, we still can’t give up this notion that if we build a better wall we can keep our enterprises safer.Certainly that is where most e...
Tricentis raises $165 million to speed up testing in DevOps
Monday, January 30, 2017 by Christian Hargrave
When it comes to web development, mobile app programming, or even establishing your enterprise software onto the market, there is one thing that all technology developers have in common. We all HATE having to test buggy software. I'm sure that every developer has went through the same traumatic experience at one point or another. That moment of getting so close to an ea...
HealthTap Cloud launches to help developers create better health apps
Friday, November 4, 2016 by Richard Harris
HealthTap Cloud is powered by HOPES, the world’s first Health Operating System, which connects the entire continuum of care to each person’s unique Personal Health Record (PHR). Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) and Software Development Kits (SDKs) that help developers build highly personalized web, iOS, and Android apps are available with HealthTap Cloud. Openi...
Postman emerges from stealth and jumps into the development market
Friday, October 14, 2016 by Christian Hargrave
Postman just announced $7 million in Series A funding, along with key milestones, including more than 3 million installations, and a customer base that includes more than 30,000 companies.Developers are flocking to Postman because it replaces inefficiencies in working with APIs by allowing the user to build, test, document, monitor and share API requests.The funding is ...
SAP HANA express edition and key benefits developers should know about
Saturday, October 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
SAP, a large independent software developer, has released it's latest edition of HANA, an in-memory computing PaaS, called HANA express edition. SAP HANA can be used as an on-premise appliance, or for building and deploying to the cloud. A great tool for any real-time application development or analytics projects. The SAP HANA express edition gives developers all of th...
New Mastercard Developers Program Offers a Suite of New Commerce API's
Wednesday, September 28, 2016 by Richard Harris
Mastercard is making it even easier for developers to create next-generation commerce solutions with the launch of Mastercard Developers. This single gateway enables Mastercard partners to access a diverse range of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) across payments, data and security. The platform also includes a ‘New and Experimental’ API category...
How Rapid Application Development is Changing Everything
Saturday, September 24, 2016 by Richard Harris
I admit it, every time I hear the word RAD I go back to the 80's when BMX freestyle was at it's peak (I still own my beloved GT Performer)! But the RAD we are talking about here is "Rapid Application Development" (RAD), that used to be something reserved for making quick apps with minimal code input, little functionally, and that you did not intend on maintaining f...
How Software Defined Networking Is Changing App Development
Thursday, September 8, 2016 by Richard Harris
Midokura is a global software innovator in network virtualization founded in 2010. The co-founders began their careers building distributed systems for the world’s preeminent e-commerce website: Amazon.com. Recognizing that companies around the world faced similar challenges and needed networking infrastructure not found in conventional networking, they applied th...
Learn Ruby or Javascript for Free With Flatiron's School Online Courses
Wednesday, August 3, 2016 by Richard Harris
The Flatiron School, located in NYC, has launched four new online application programming courses as part of the school’s Online Campus. Two are free and two are certificate courses available for a fee. Free CoursesThe two free courses include provide an introduction to Ruby and JavaScript. These courses offer 30 to 50 hours of self-paced, test driven curriculum fi...
WaveMaker Adds Security Enhancements to Its Rapid Application Development Platform
Friday, July 15, 2016 by Richard Harris
WaveMaker has announced two new security enhancements to its enterprise-class Rapid Application Development platform. The WaveMaker platform now supports Single Sign-on for WaveMaker-built and deployed applications using Central Authentication Server (CAS), which permits users to access multiple applications by providing credentials such as UserID and password only once...
Autodesk Adds New APIs and SDKs to Forge Cloud Development Platform
Friday, June 17, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Autodesk has announced new functionality to its Forge platform, including new cloud application development tools and services cloud developers. The Forge platform offers a set of cloud services that connects design, engineering, visualization, collaboration, production and operations workflows. Application programming interfaces (APIs) and software developmen...
Distil Networks Releases API Security Service
Thursday, April 7, 2016 by Richard Harris
Distil Networks has released a new Distil API Security service that protects vulnerable Application Programming Interface (API) endpoints from malicious traffic. The Distil API Security solution protects all types of APIs including those serving web browsers, mobile applications, and Internet of Things (IoT) connected devices. Distil API Security defends against de...
Visa Launches Visa Developer for Mobile Payments
Monday, February 15, 2016 by Richard Harris
Visa has announced the launch of Visa Developer, a new platform the provides access to some of Visa’s most popular payment technologies and services including account holder identification, person-to-person payment capabilities, secure in-store and online payment services such as Visa Checkout, currency conversion and consumer transaction alerts. Visa plans to provide a...
Dynamsoft's Barcode Reader SDK now Supports PHP Applications
Tuesday, January 19, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Dynamsoft’s Barcode Reader software development kit (SDK) has been updated to include support for the Hypertext Preprocessor (PHP) language so PHP developers can enable barcode reading from images and PDFs in their applications. The new functionality adds to the solutions ongoing support for .NET web applications and desktop application languages. The updated Barco...
Autodesk Launches Forge IoT Initiative Including a New PaaS
Thursday, December 3, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Autodesk has announced its new Forge initiative, offering a cloud connected ecosystem in support the Internet of Things (IoT). The initiative consists of three components which include a new platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offering, a developer program, and a $100 million investment fund.The Forge PaaS Platform is a set of cloud services that span early stage design, engin...
Orasi Extends Expertise to Kony's CrossPlatform Enterprise Mobile Solutions
Monday, November 16, 2015 by Richard Harris
Orasi Software has partnered with Kony to expand its software, support, training and consulting services to provide a complete suite of services for the application lifecycle. With the partnership, Orasi will provide sales, implementation services, training, consulting and support for Kony’s mobile development solutions. The partnership is part of Orasi’s expansion...
What's Wrong with Mobile Development and How to Fix It
Friday, October 30, 2015 by Joe Schulz
Between the proliferation of mobile devices, the differences in operating systems, and the complexity of application interactions, mobile developers are often caught between the desire to ensure robust functionality and the need to contain costs and meet deadlines. Do we code for the most popular devices and hope for the best? When we can’t stay abreast of releases...
Faceoff: AnalyticsasApps vs AnalyticsasCode
Tuesday, October 20, 2015 by Apurva Dave
All Hail Point-and-Click Apps!A few years ago consumerization of everything was the rage. The belief was that enterprises would become more productive by rethinking every one of their processes and applying consumer principles to them. Setting up a new datacenter might be like scheduling your laundry service via your phone.Not surprisingly, data analytics were swept up ...
Ford Releases New SYNC 3 Interface Options for iOS and Android App Development
Friday, September 25, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Developers who are interested in developing automotive apps for Ford’s SYNC 3 technology now have new options for functionality including advanced voice recognition and touch screen user interface.SYNC AppLink enables drivers to voice-control smartphone apps and allows for phone apps to appear on the SYNC screen as they appear on the phone. The AppLink experience is now...
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...
