Network API development in 2025
Tuesday, November 12, 2024 by Mikko Jarva
There is a shift occurring in the telecommunications sector as network operators develop network-as-a-service (NaaS) offers—essentially, offering the extensive capabilities of their wide-area wired and wireless networks as programmable platforms to support public cloud and private enterprise applications.
How a holistic approach can drive higher-value net...
GraphQL platform Hasura launches new innovations
Monday, January 3, 2022 by Richard Harris
Hasura has announced a new Data Hub, bi-directional REST API Connectors, and support for Google Cloud, further reducing the time needed to ship software and providing easy onramps to GraphQL for organizations of all types. These innovations build atop existing industry-first capabilities including full-stack application previews and cross-database joins to enable compan...
Developers are invited to free Space App Camp
Wednesday, June 5, 2019 by Richard Harris
Huge amounts of data from space are produced daily by the Earth observation (EO) program Copernicus and its Sentinel satellites. This big data from space, including information on our planet’s atmosphere, land, and water, offer countless opportunities in connection with mobile apps.
The ESA Space App Camp aims to make EO data and services accessible to a wide r...
Fission open source serverless framework gets updated
Wednesday, October 17, 2018 by Richard Harris
Platform9 just released updates to Fission.io - the open source, Kubernetes-native Serverless framework, with new features enabling developers and IT Operations to improve the quality and reliability of serverless applications.
Other new features include Automated Canary Deployments to reduce the risk of failed releases, Prometheus integration for auto...
Low code development platform gets an update from Filemaker
Wednesday, May 16, 2018 by Richard Harris
The low-code mobile app platform FileMaker, Inc. has announced the release of the FileMaker 17 platform which features starter apps and master-details layouts in hopes to make app development easier, and faster when using their tools. It also includes a redesigned FileMaker Server Admin Console and new FileMaker Admin API to help streamline custom app management.Compani...
Move data between the cloud and edge with Couchbase Mobile 2.0
Wednesday, April 18, 2018 by Austin Harris
Couchbase, Inc. has announced the latest advancement in mobile data management with Couchbase Mobile 2.0. The latest release offers enterprise developers SQL queries, Full-Text Search, synchronization, and end-to-end security among other features to easily mobilize business applications to create better customer experiences and a more effective workforce. Companies acro...
Sensor Fusion Annotation autonomous vehicle API launches
Friday, February 16, 2018 by Richard Harris
Scale API has launched its Sensor Fusion Annotation API for LIDAR and RADAR point cloud data, which accelerates the development of perception algorithms for autonomous vehicles. Dozens of automobile OEMs and self-driving car companies (such as GM Cruise and Voyage) already use Scale API's comprehensive Image Annotation APIs to produce premium training datasets for their...
Inclusive Development gets open source tools from IBM
Thursday, February 9, 2017 by Austin Harris
Editors note: Submitted by Moe Kraft, Accessibility Transformation Lead, IBM Accessibility ResearchIBM is embarking on a new era of open source accessibility by releasing tooling, samples and design patterns to help streamline the development of inclusive web and mobile applications.They have recently released two new projects on the developerWorks/open community, AccPr...
Developers and API standards
Tuesday, January 31, 2017 by Richard Harris
For nearly five years, Andy Beier, director of engineering at Domo, has worked to build more than 500 data connectors for the company’s business optimization platform. However, as Andy and his team strove to complete that monumental task, they continually ran into roadblocks because of the lack of standards in API development. Frustration led to action and the Domo...
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...
AirVisual's new air pollution data API is now available for developers
Tuesday, January 3, 2017 by Richard Harris
AirVisual is a company that provides the tools and information people need to thrive in polluted environments. By employing big data, artificial intelligence and Internet of Things technologies, AirVisual delivers user-friendly, simple solutions to optimize health and well-being, both indoors and out.They just recently launched a groundbreaking new way to visualize...
YouMail launches new API to help block annoying robocalls
Thursday, October 13, 2016 by Richard Harris
YouMail, a provider of intelligent communication services, has announced a new application program interface (API) that enables telecom carriers, private branch exchange (PBX) providers, and third-party developers to programmatically determine whether a given phone number is an undesirable robot-caller.YouMail’s new API provides access to an ever changing and expanding ...
A CloudBased App's Performance Depends on More Than the Code
Wednesday, September 21, 2016 by Richard Harris
Slow application performance, errors and outages are the bane of a development team’s day. When such issues occur, developers have traditionally combed through their code, often with the aid of an Application Performance Monitoring(APM) tool, to identify the bug causing the problem. Yet, for applications running on cloud platforms like Amazon Web Services (AWS), de...
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...
Mule 3.8 Offers Unified API Gateway Extensions with the Core Mule Runtime
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Mulesoft has released Mule 3.8, extending the flexibility of the Mule runtime engine of Mulesoft’s Anypoint Platform which helps solve connectivity problems across SOA, SaaS, and APIs by unifying integration and API management capabilities into one distribution. Mule 3.8 combines data and application integration across legacy systems, SaaS applications, and APIs wi...
AT&T Developer Summit Hosts Biggest Hackathon Yet with Over $250,000 Up for Grabs
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
The developer world is set to experience one of the biggest hackathons of the year on January 2–3, 2016. Developers will flock to Las Vegas during that time for a chance to win over US$250,000 in cash and prizes at the AT&T Developer Summit hackathon.It’s the biggest hackathon prize pool of the year, bar none. And participating is free! I like the word “plethora” to...
New APIs and SDKs for the IBM Watson Developer Cloud
Thursday, October 1, 2015 by Richard Harris
The IBM Watson Developer Cloud is getting new APIs and SDKs that will expand the ability to enable cognitive computing features for apps using IBM Watson's Language, Vision, Speech and Data APIs.These services use advanced artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning approaches to provide new opportunities to understand and engage users, and leverage the ...
Trifecta Events Coming to Santa Clara Convention Center in September
Wednesday, September 9, 2015 by Richard Harris
The Santa Clara Convention Center will be a busy place on September 28 – 30 as it hosts three conferences in one - API World, Integrate 2015 and DataWeek. In addition to activities surrounding each event’s focus, there will also be an expo hall, hiring mixers and a hackathon.DataWeekThe DataWeek 2015 Conference and Festival focuses on data skills including Data Science,...
Appboy Launches Intelligent Delivery Platform for Push Messaging Engagement on a Per User Level
Tuesday, November 18, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Appboy has introduced a new Intelligent Delivery offering which uses customized algorithms to allow app publishers to send messages at the exact moment when each user is most receptive to communication.The Intelligent Delivery algorithm analyzes previous interactions for each user to deliver push notifications, email and in-app messages at the peak of potential engageme...
Airpush's Revolutionary Abstract Banners Offer a Completely New level of Mobile Banner Engagement
Friday, October 10, 2014 by Richard Harris
Airpush is introducing Abstract Banners, a new banner ad format which offers a heightened level of ad engagement. These ads consist of transparent overlays over content that can generate an extremely unique user experience resulting in a significant increase in conversions when compared to standard banners.The SDK launch for these new banners has just been announced by ...
Google IO Announcements Include New Developer Services to Build and Optimize
Wednesday, June 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Among other things announced today at Google I/O , is the introduction of new services to help developers build and optimize data pipelines, create mobile applications, and debug, trace, and monitor their cloud applications in production. These include:Google Cloud DataflowCloud Dataflow is a fully managed service for creating data pipelines that ingest, transform and a...
Dropbox Announces Three New APIs at First Annual DBX Developers Conference
Wednesday, July 10, 2013 by Richard Harris
It's not easy to follow up San Francisco mega developer events such as Microsoft Build and Apple's WWDC, however Dropbox has done an admirable job so far with its version, the DBX Developers Conference.Of course, no self respecting developer conference would be without the announcement of new introductions and Dropbox has done so with the introduction of three...
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