Integrated API developer suite from SmartBear
Tuesday, August 15, 2023 by Richard Harris
SmartBear released SwaggerHub Portal, SwaggerHub’s new feature to customize consumer-facing documentation that drives the adoption of APIs. The developer-centric tool allows API providers to create customizable landing pages, providing consumers with comprehensive resources for easy implementation. Portal is integrated with SwaggerHub, the popular API design and d...
Satellite internet market growing rapidly
Tuesday, April 11, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
The satellite internet market is predicted to surpass a market valuation of US$ 6 Billion and expand at a CAGR of more than 8% during the forecast period, 2021-2031.
As per 2020 data, globally, there were at least 400 submarine cables in service, and fiber optics cables constitute almost 99% of the total international internet data traffic.
How does satellite inte...
NFT API requests are surging
Wednesday, March 29, 2023 by Freeman Lightner
BitcoinCasinos.com has been following the latest trends on NFTs. Recent research revealed developers and consumers are increasingly interested in NFT products. API requests grew by more than 1000% YoY in the last quarter of 2022 and by over 132% QoQ.
"Although talk of NFTs has just about died down, activity in the space hasn't. The numbers show that develope...
API governance explained and why it matters
Tuesday, March 28, 2023 by Darshan Shivashankar
APIs are the building blocks of the modern web economy. On any given day the average consumer might interact with dozens of them, from the weather app on their phone to the GPS in their car to their preferred social media platform or e-commerce store. By facilitating interoperability on a massive scale, they've enabled the contemporary digital world as we know it to...
API exploration tool SwaggerHub Explore launches from SmartBear
Thursday, March 16, 2023 by Brittany Hainzinger
SmartBear is giving developers instant access to RESTful and Apache Kafka endpoints with the new SwaggerHub Explore. The free API exploration tool has an easy-to-use interface and accelerates the development lifecycle, allowing developers to easily visualize API data in a single place and quickly evaluate functionality before investing valuable time in API integration. ...
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...
Free API observability tool lands from CloudVector
Friday, January 24, 2020 by Freeman Lightner
CloudVector, announced the launch of API Shark, the free API discovery and observability tool. Digital transformation trends are propagating public, private and internal enterprise APIs across cloud environments faster than DevOps and SecOps teams can register and maintain them. API Shark automatically discovers and monitors API catalogs with high fidelity.
“Pa...
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...
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...
API contracts at the heart of security in 42Crunch release
Thursday, August 8, 2019 by Austin Harris
42Crunch, the creator of the industry's first API Firewall has released the API security platform with enhanced tools for developers to easily define security in OpenAPI contracts, enabling an agile DevSecOps experience, and providing full visibility into each individual API's security landscape. API security is complex and becomes a bottleneck wh...
API standards are a real problem says Smartbear
Thursday, February 7, 2019 by Richard Harris
A new global survey from Smartbear reveals API standardization is the number one technology challenge teams face when developing APIs. The report titled "The State of API 2019 Report" uncovers API standardization as the top challenge facing API teams as they support the continued growth of microservices. The survey prompted more than 3,000 responses from ...
Appian announces new platform updates at Appian World 2018
Wednesday, April 25, 2018 by Richard Harris
At the Appian World 2018 global user conference, Appian unveiled the latest version of their Digital Transformation Platform. Enhancements to the platform help their users implement automation across the organization and bolster performance and administration of Appian’s platform-as-a-service (PaaS) cloud architecture. In addition to being in the core Appian platform, t...
New API testing tool will tell developers if their API works
Friday, January 26, 2018 by Austin Harris
SmartBear has announced the release of Swagger Inspector, a free cloud-based API testing and documentation tool to simplify the validation of any API and generate its OpenAPI documentation. Swagger Inspector is the first step the Swagger team is taking to reimagine the way APIs are tested and documented.The API economy has captured the attention of business and technolo...
Built.io Releases New Functionality to its Flow iPaaS Integration Solution
Wednesday, July 13, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Built.io has released a number of new features to its Built.io Flow Integration Platform-as-a-Service (iPaaS) which creates workflows and automates business processes for connected sensors, devices, systems and applications across mobile, web and IoT.Platform enhancements include: - Activity Builder: In addition to thousands of out-of-the-box integrations maintaine...
HPE Releases New HPE ALM Octane Application Lifecycle Management Platform
Tuesday, June 7, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) has released HPE ALM Octane, an application lifecycle management (ALM) software which provides access to a number of developer tools including Jenkins and GIT to offer continuous quality opportunities for companies leveraging Agile and DevOps.HPE ALM Octane utilizes Swagger-documented REST APIs and an open platform architecture built on ...
SmartBear Adds New Functionality to SwaggerHub Public API Management Platform
Thursday, February 4, 2016 by Stuart Parkerson
SmartBear Software has announced new functionality to SwaggerHub, the company’s repository which allows development teams to collaborate and coordinate the lifecycle of an API. Among the updates is the ability for IT teams to organize, share and collaborate on Swagger API definitions directly in SwaggerHub, where public and private APIs are centrally stored in a SaaS pr...
FullArmor Hybrid API Platform to Support Connecting to AD in the Cloud
Thursday, November 19, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
FullArmor has released its Hybrid API (HAPI) platform which provides the ability for developers to integrate direct authentication and access capabilities for on-premise Active Directory (AD) infrastructures into their cloud and mobile apps.Using the HAPI platform, apps can support Active Directory login, provision/deprovision users and groups, and connect to internal, ...
Akana's API Management Platform Now Offers API Description Language Mediation
Saturday, October 31, 2015 by Richard Harris
Akana’s API Management platform now offers support for the leading API description languages, including the ability to translate between them. The new API description language mediation provides the opportunity to translate between different API description languages allowing the platform to make API publication and consumption faster and easier by allowing API adm...
Software AG webMethods Integration Platform V9.9 Offers Hybrid Cloud Integration Capabilities
Wednesday, October 28, 2015 by Richard Harris
Software AG has released the latest version of it webMethods Integration Platform offering enhancements and expanding its hybrid cloud integration capabilities. With webMethod V9.9 there are a number of new enhancements for hybrid connectivity, cloud connectivity and advanced orchestration, for rapid development of agile applications.The 9.9 release adds capabilities to...
SmartBear Releases SwaggerHub API Lifecycle Management Platform
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 by Richard Harris
SmartBear Software has released SwaggerHub, a free platform that allows companies to collaborate on and coordinate across the workflow of an API’s lifecycle. Swagger is an API description format to design and deliver APIs for the IoT, microservices and mobile applications. SwaggerHub offers a centralized definition to allow teams to work together to design, build, ...
Axway Launches New API Security Offerings
Friday, September 25, 2015 by Richard Harris
Axway has made a number of updates to in its release of Axway 5 Suite API Management, release 7.4.1 including built-in API Firewalling capabilities. The Axway 5 Suite API Management platform provides companies with an enterprise-grade API management and security platform offering the ability to protect against malicious attacks, including Denial of Service (DoS), c...
Parasoft Offers New Functionality to Continuous Testing Products
Thursday, July 30, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Parasoft has announced new functionality to its continuous testing products with enhancements to Parasoft Virtualize 9.9, Parasoft SOAtest 9.9, and Parasoft Environment Manager 2.7. These improvements for these API testing and service virtualization platforms include next-generation Swagger 2.0, RAML and JSON support for continuous testing.Parasoft’s test automation too...
Amazon's New API Gateway Offers New API implementations on AWS
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 by Richard Harris
Amazon’s new API Gateway is a pay-as-you-go service which offers the opportunity to build and run application backends and connect applications to API implementations that run on AWS Lambda, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), or a publicly addressable service hosted outside of AWS. The platform allows companies to implement APIs that wrap around, enhance, and effe...
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...
WaveMaker Launches New Gateway for API Third Party Consumption
Monday, July 6, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
WaveMaker has established a new gateway allowing companies to open their APIs to third party developers. In addition to the current ability for its API tools to publish, wrap, and share APIs within the enterprise, the new gateway allows authorized partners and third-party developers to consume APIs.The WaveMaker Gateway and the WaveMaker API Portal provides:- The abilit...
Open Source WSO2 API Manager 1.9 Now Available
Monday, June 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
WSO2 has enhances the API management platform capabilities with the release of WSO2 API Manager 1.9, which is fully open source and runs on servers and in the cloud. With this latest version, WSO2 API Manager offers plugin support for third-party key servers, allowing companies to use their existing infrastructure to authenticate API consumers.WSO2 API Manager now suppo...
K2 Releases Application Integrations to REST Endpoints
Tuesday, May 19, 2015 by Richard Harris
K2 has announced OData and Swagger REST support, enabling those using the company’s K2 Appit and Blackpearl products to build solutions based on workflows and forms that can access existing data in the cloud or on premise.K2 offers a low code platform which allows users to create customized business applications using workflows and forms that stretch across roles, depar...
SOA is Not a Mobile Backend
Friday, May 1, 2015 by Bill Appleton
The rise of mobile devices finally pushed the adoption of web services into the mainstream of application development. But years before this, companies used web services to build sophisticated service-oriented architectures for application development and integration. Some of the API management companies have even tried to adopt SOA systems for the new world of mobile d...
Apigee SmartDocs Provides Developers Method level API Documentation
Friday, May 9, 2014 by Richard Harris
Apigee, which provides API management solutions, has introduced SmartDocs, a method-level API documentation that offers both internal and external SEO benefits. API providers can generate docs by leveraging handlebars-driven templates, test the accuracy of their documentation with live requests, and control the layout, interactions, and look of docs. App devel...
New SOA Software Services for API Monetization for Enterprises
Wednesday, January 29, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
New advanced API licensing and dynamic documentation capabilities have been announced by SOA Software to help businesses further monetize their data, applications, and services. SOA Software offers API management and SOA governance services including their API Management Solution, which offers advanced licensing capabilities enabling businesses to support...
