GraphQL API launches from Point One Navigation
Thursday, October 19, 2023 by Richard Harris
Point One Navigation announced the public launch of its GraphQL API, delivering instant integration and unprecedented observability into precision location for GNSS-powered devices.
The GraphQL API radically simplifies development, eliminating the need for vendor libraries, intermediate data stores, or working with convoluted networks of REST endpoints. Developers bu...
RapidAPI now supports GraphQL
Thursday, January 23, 2020 by Richard Harris
RapidAPI announced it has added support for GraphQL APIs to its API Marketplace and has launched the first wave of GraphQL- based APIs including GitHub, GitLab, Yelp, AniList, Shopify, and more. Currently, RapidAPI has more than 10,000 REST-based APIs from companies such as Microsoft, Twilio, SendGrid, Nexmo, Skyscanner, Crunchbase, and Google. With the addition of Grap...
Diffusion data streaming platform gets an update
Friday, November 23, 2018 by Richard Harris
Push Technology released new functionality in their Diffusion Intelligent Data Platform to increase security authentication and authorization handling, facilitate easy transitioning from REST-based applications to streaming data applications, simplify development of multi-user and collaborative applications, and enhance data compression for large payload distribution ap...
Platform9 releases infrastructure agnostic managed Kubernetes service
Tuesday, January 24, 2017 by Richard Harris
Platform9 just announced the general availability of its Managed Kubernetes service, the industry’s first infrastructure-agnostic, SaaS-managed offering. Unlike legacy software distribution models, Managed Kubernetes is deployed and managed entirely as a SaaS solution, across on-premises and public cloud infrastructure. The company also introduced Fission, a ...
Sean Carron tells us about Team Smiles and HappinessasaService
Monday, December 12, 2016 by Richard Harris
Happiness-as-a-Service is an application that allows kids awaiting a transplant, or those who received a transplant, to request a wish, and then connects them with benefactors who can fund their wishes. It enables users to nominate a critically ill child, see a child’s wish in their local community, and donate - among other features. The users can create &ld...
Oracle Launches Project Visual Code to Empower Citizen Developers
Friday, September 23, 2016 by Richard Harris
Oracle unveils Project Visual Code, a cloud-based platform for low-code application development. Using the platform, customers can now quickly and easily build and publish personalized, stand-alone applications or extend existing applications by using a visual interface that requires very little code. Features include:Builder: A visual tool for creating and hosting...
New SmartBear Software Offers Open Source API Testing for IoT
Tuesday, July 7, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
SmartBear Software has released SoapUI 5.2 Open Source, the latest version of its API testing tool which now includes integration to AlertSite UXM and support for Internet-of-Things (IoT) messaging format MQTT. API Monitoring in AlertSite gives teams the visibility into the performance characteristics and problems in their APIs. The new AlertSite Connector fo...
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...
Microsoft Announces New Office 365 REST based APIs plus iOS and Android SDKs
Friday, October 31, 2014 by Richard Harris
Microsoft has announced has announced three new Office 365 capabilities for developers: 1) general availability of new Office 365 APIs for mail, files, calendar and contacts; 2) new mobile SDKs for native app development, and 3) visibility for developers’ apps through the new Office 365 app launcher. The new Office 365 REST-based APIs for mail, files, and calendar ...
Xignite Releases Java and .NET SDKs on GitHub
Wednesday, October 1, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Cloud-based financial market data provider Xignite has released new Software Development Kits (SDKs) for Java and .NET on GitHub. The release supports Xignite’s REST-based APIs for real-time, reference and historical financial market data.The Xignite .NET and Java SDKs include all classes, enumerations and inline documentation for all Xignite APIs. Some of the features ...
Digital Development Management Selects Ninja Metrics’ Katana® Engine to Bring Predictive Analytics to Digital Entertainment Solutions
Wednesday, July 9, 2014 by Richard Harris
Ninja Metrics and Digital Development Management have teamed up to offer Katana® Social Analytics Engine as a resource for its clients.“Ninja Metrics is excited to work with one of the most influential consultancies in the digital space,” notes Dmitri Williams, CEO and Co-Founder. “We feel that Ninja’s insights on Social Value will provide DDM clients some invalua...
OASIS Consortium Approves OData 4.0 Standards for Open, Programmable Web
Monday, March 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
The OASIS international open standards consortium announced the approval of the Open Data Protocol (OData) 4.0 and the OData JSON Format 4.0. These REST-based standards simplify the querying and sharing of data across applications for re-use in the enterprise, cloud, and mobile devices. With OData, information can be accessed from a variety of sources including rel...
Embarcadero Launches Newest Version of RAD Studio XE5 with Native Android, Windows and iOS Support
Friday, September 13, 2013 by Richard Harris
Embarcadero Technologies has introduced its latest iteration of RAD Studio XE5, a multi-language, multi-device, and multi-database application development suite that supports Android, iOS, Windows and OS X.
RAD Studio XE5 provides native, CPU executable code from one codebase with access to common mobile device sensors/services and use of on-device, cloud, or ent...
