Automated service to service access emerges from Otterize
Tuesday, April 18, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
Otterize, an open-source solution that's re-inventing how to connect services securely, to each other and to their infrastructures, today announced $11.5M in seed funding and publicly unveiled its new Otterize Cloud product, which is now in GA. The round was led by Index Ventures, followed by Dig Ventures, and Vine Ventures, with participation by Jibe Ventures, Crew...
PostCon 2019 takeaways
Thursday, October 3, 2019 by Richard Harris
API developers came from silicon valley and beyond to attend the second annual POST/CON 2019 event, which has now passed. Postman users and customer presenters have shared their biggest take-ways (pasted below). The event was very successful for hundreds of attendees that work in API development offering an opportunity to learn first-hand how other enterprises and Postm...
Open Source expert Dee Kumar joins Armory
Thursday, August 15, 2019 by Richard Harris
After recently announcing a $28 million Series B funding round, Armory, the enterprise software company commercializing Spinnaker, is set to make another significant announcement next week: Dee Kumar, recognized as a leading cloud computing luminary, has joined Armory as vice president of open source and developer relations.
Here's why this matters: T...
New Agile and DevOps capabilities from CollabNet
Tuesday, August 6, 2019 by Austin Harris
CollabNet VersionOne introduces its latest VersionOne for Agile management and Continuum for DevOps offerings, as well as it’s VS solution that combines both. The releases offer enhanced support for Agile at scale and Agile frameworks such as SAFe, and Value Stream Management.
New capabilities of the products make it easier for organizations to unify Agile plan...
More AI tools to come from Near's $100M raise
Friday, August 2, 2019 by Richard Harris
Near, the platform that leverages AI to make real-world data actionable, has announced that it has raised $100 million in a new round of funding. The investment comes from London headquartered private equity firm Greater Pacific Capital (GPC). With this fresh investment, Near has raised a total of $134 million to date, including from Sequoia Capital and JP Morgan.
Th...
Postman funding series B reaches $50M
Monday, June 24, 2019 by Richard Harris
Postman announced the completion of a Series B financing round totaling $50 million. The funding was led by CRV and included participation by Nexus Venture Partners. And CRV General Partner Devdutt Yellurkar has joined the Postman board of directors.
“Postman has created a powerful collaboration platform for the entire API development lifecycle. CRV is de...
API security testing just got easier with 42Crunch's new scanner
Thursday, March 21, 2019 by Richard Harris
42Crunch officially released the 42Crunch API Platform, an API security cloud platform to discover vulnerabilities in APIs and protect them from attack. The 42Crunch Platform can protect SaaS, Web, or IoT APIs, as well as microservices.
This follows the launch of the free API Contract Security Audit tool at APISecurity.io earlier this month. The tool helps API d...
AimBrain joins the ForgeRock Trust Network with biometric solutions
Thursday, December 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
AimBrain announced its place on the ForgeRock Trust Network, which recently celebrated the traction made by the end of its first year. ForgeRock Trust Network is a global partner programme designed to provide organizations with access to a comprehensive range of authentication, risk and fraud management, identity proofing and identity enrichment solutions, all of which ...
Speeding up SaaS deployments with Platform.sh
Friday, November 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Organizations spend an inordinate amount of time and resources developing and maintaining infrastructure, which distracts from what should be their core focus: providing customers with valuable and engaging applications and digital experiences. Platform.sh allows companies to direct their attention towards accomplishing this primary goal by relieving them of the burden ...
NGINX gets new capabilities to help app teams develop and scale
Monday, October 15, 2018 by Richard Harris
NGINX has released new enhancements to the NGINX Application Platform - including new releases of NGINX Plus, NGINX Controller, and NGINX Unit. These new releases aim to improve NGINX’s solution in the application delivery controller (ADC) market, as well as introduce new solutions in the API management and service mesh markets. NGINX provides a single platfo...
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,...
Wayfair CTO on experimentation at scale
Tuesday, August 28, 2018 by John Mulliken
Fans of street art will recognize the work of Shepard Fairey, the artist whose depiction of Andre the Giant made waves in 1989. His most iconic work is his portrayal of Barack Obama as “Hope,” which dominated the 2008 U.S. presidential campaign and propelled his artistic endeavors into mainstream scrutiny.
Fairey was an early believer in the power of scal...
Using GraphQL for building internal apps quickly
Wednesday, August 8, 2018 by Tanmai Gopal
The transition from IT’s role in organizations, from a mere horizontal function to one of a strategic advantage, is playing out the world over. However, most change management techniques behind these efforts tend to disproportionately focus on end-user facing software - often at the cost of intra-organization or internal applications (apps).
Internal apps prope...
Postman update gives developers more freebies
Thursday, August 2, 2018 by Austin Harris
Postman has announced updates to their free flagship app. Starting immediately, all Postman free users will be able to create Postman teams, use team workspaces and use all of Postman’s valuable collaboration features. Prior to this update, teams were available exclusively to customers of Postman’s paid plans, Pro and Enterprise. With this release, all Postm...
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...
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...
The state of API integration
Saturday, March 10, 2018 by Richard Harris
Jitterbit has announced the results of a new survey on the state of API integration that shows enterprises increasingly recognize the value of APIs but are struggling to find a sustainable way to create and manage them. The survey findings detailed in the report also reveal how the IT stack is shifting to the cloud, but many enterprises still use on-premise so...
Progressive web apps vs native apps: Showdown in 2018
Thursday, March 1, 2018 by Andrew Gazdecki
Apps have become an integral part of any brand's digital marketing efforts. You'd be hard-pressed to find a company that hasn't, at the very least, thought about developing an app. It would be even more difficult to find a company willing to deny the tremendous impact that an app can have on a brand's engagement and customer experience.
Given th...
Atlassian unveils first Stride news since launch
Wednesday, February 28, 2018 by Austin Harris
Atlassian has announced that Stride now allows its users to customize the platform to their exact liking by using new API capabilities that specialize in custom apps and bot development. Stride is the first product built on the new Atlassian API platform and takes advantage of Atlassian's new app management console. Atlassian also made the announcement that they built o...
Postman 6.0 aims to help API development collaboration
Friday, February 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Postman has announced the release of Postman 6.0, which includes the introduction of Workspaces, an entirely new construct to enhance collaboration on connected software. Workspaces is a completely new development resource that improves organization and collaboration within the Postman API dev environment. Developers can better organize their API work - and speed up and...
Axway and Cloud Elements partner to speed up cloud apps
Thursday, December 7, 2017 by Richard Harris
Cloud Elements has announced a strategic partnership with Axway to deliver 20 new connectors for the API Builder in the Axway AMPLIFY platform. The partnership will help enterprises accelerate connectivity to applications for new ecosystem-driven business models and revenue streams.Together with Cloud Elements, Axway will be able to extend the hybrid cloud integration f...
2017 State of API Survey released
Friday, October 6, 2017 by Richard Harris
Postman has released its 2017 State of API Survey. This survey of the Postman API community around the world was completed earlier in 2017 and asked a variety of questions about API usage, technologies, tools and concerns.API use is exploding among developers, as APIs are an essential part of software development for the web, IoT, mobile and AI applications. APIs allow ...
How mobile app testing has changed
Friday, August 4, 2017 by Richard Harris
Technologies are rapidly evolving and ways of testing them are changing too. But one thing remains true - product quality must be high. Therefore, it is important to have a clear vision on how you will guarantee that your product is working as planned. Depending on the project, you can build your own testing team, hire professional consultants or do a combination of bot...
Postman app version 5.0 allows access to popular Postman Pro features
Friday, July 14, 2017 by Austin Harris
Postman has announced a major update to its free Postman app, version 5.0. Starting immediately, users of 5.0 will have limited-quantity access to many of the paid features of their Pro offerings, intended to support small and individual development projects.With this product release, all API developers can leverage the full power of Postman, with support at every stage...
Oracle releases their API Platform Cloud Service
Monday, May 15, 2017 by Richard Harris
Oracle is expanding their Cloud Platform’s integration offerings with the availability of their API Platform Cloud Service. Bringing together API-first design and governance capabilities from recently acquired Apiary and API management from Oracle, the new cloud service delivers end-to-end capabilities for designing, prototyping, documenting, testing, and managing the p...
Developer keyboard shortcuts that increase productivity in Postman
Tuesday, May 9, 2017 by Austin Harris
Editor's Note: Guest submission by Postman, an API tool developerKeyboard usability is usually high on the priority list for any dev tool. For most developers, it’s a more efficient input method, requiring minimum movement and effort compared to a mouse or any other pointing device. It also saves time, and for repetitive / well-frequented tasks, this can bring about a h...
The complete API toolchain for developers
Thursday, December 15, 2016 by Richard Harris
Postman, provider of a popular API toolchain, announced a major update to its innovative developer product, Postman Pro. Previously in limited release known as Postman Cloud, the product has been rechristened to reflect its more extensive features, numerous integrations and broad appeal.With the product release, developers can leverage the power at every stage of their ...
Postman emerges from stealth and jumps into the development market
Friday, October 14, 2016 by Austin Harris
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 ...
SmartBear Adds .NET Framework Functionality to Its API Testing Framework
Wednesday, July 27, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
SmartBear Software has announced that API developers using Visual Studio to build software using the open source .NET Framework can now utilize the SmartBear’s Ready! TestServer API testing framework.In April SmartBear announced similar support for Java developers using tools like Eclipse, IntelliJ and others. With the .Net announcement developers can now use the open s...
A Deep Dive Into the Restlet DHC API Testing Platform
Thursday, February 4, 2016 by Richard Harris
We recently visited with Jérôme Louvel, “Chief Geek” and founder of Restlet, which builds an API Platform as a Service (apiPaaS) to consume, design, develop and deploy APIs in the cloud. Jerome is the founder of Restlet Framework, an open source REST API framework for Java which Restlet, the company, continues to build and maintain. With this Q&A, we discuss th...
