One of the most critical requirements for an Application Modernization project is to support workloads running on multiple platforms. In fact, such projects naturally include in their transformation process migrating workloads approach using the hybrid model. Another typical technical decision that commonly comes up is the adoption of Kubernetes as the main platform for the existing services and microservices originated by the modernization project.

API providers need to observe their APIs to get meaningful data about whether and how they are consumed in practice. API observability is a form of monitoring that passively logs API traffic to an observability service. Different from traditional API monitoring, with API observability you: Monitor interactions to improve developer experience Understand how customers use your API Troubleshoot your API Observing REST APIs is well understood and supported, but not every API is a REST API.

Founding a developer-first startup isn’t quite the same as starting a regular company. When your primary focus is on creating products to sell to developers, you need to build a sales strategy around those developers’ needs. The occasional email with a ‘click here for a demo’ button just won’t cut it. Instead, it’s time to work on your content strategy. Why take our word for it?

API providers need to understand how their consumers are using their APIs. Usage metrics are essential because they tell you about API adoption, how your API is growing over time, and which endpoints are seeing more (or less) use. When you look at API usage metrics, you should be measuring the active users on your API in the sense that most closely aligns with your service.

Finding efficient ways to process, share, and reuse functionality and data is crucial – it’s an important way to break down monolithic applications into more consumable and maintainable microservices. In today’s API-focused world, this translates into multiprotocol development (gRPC, GraphQL, EDAs, etc.) and an enhanced development process (governance, standards, design-first). To understand this, we need to look more closely at protocols.

Since the early ’90s, computer users and businesses have used Adobe’s venerable PDF format as the de facto choice for digital documents where portability and advanced features such as form-filling, digital signatures, and accurate rendering is important.

Growing your career can be both scary and exciting, and our SEO manager Savannah Whitman experienced both before joining Moesif. Now she’s nurturing search rankings to bring the latest in API observability to technologists who need it. In this installment of Meeting Moesif, we talk to her about where API technology is heading, and what it takes to keep up.

The technology you choose to start your project with determines what your product is capable of now and what it will be capable of in the future. Finding the right stack to build on top of is one of the biggest engineering challenges you can face. Picking a stack that allows you to build a product and get to market rapidly is great unless that same choice limits the scalability and features of a product in the future.

For many companies, performance is the main reason to go with GraphQL. But is that a valid argument? Often developers compare GraphQL to REST APIs and see the N+1 requests (or over-fetching) as an important reason to go for GraphQL. Let's put that to the test and explore if GraphQL APIs actually can outperform existing REST APIs. For this, we'll take a GraphQL-ized REST API (from JSONPlaceholder) and test the performance of GraphQL and compare it to the REST approach.

CMA CGM is a global player in sea, land, air, and logistics solutions, serving 420 of the world’s commercial ports and operating 285 shipping lines with 580 vessels. Supporting such complex international logistics requires a sophisticated and reliable IT infrastructure, underpinned by APIs that unlock the data needed to flow across the ecosystem of internal IT, partners, and customers.

Knowing how to deal with APIs to allow communication between software systems is essential if you're a web developer. This article will show you how to develop a CRUD REST API in a Node.js environment using an Express.js server and a PostgreSQL database. We'll go over how to use node-postgres to connect an Express.js server to PostgreSQL. The API will support HTTP request methods that correlate to the PostgreSQL database from which it gets its data.

Kubernetes shouldn’t be reserved for production. Using local Kubernetes in development means you can build and test your service using the same technologies as your live deployments. Some organizations provide a shared Kubernetes cluster for development activities. Others offer on-demand virtual clusters that serve staging environments for significant changes.

APIs can help you achieve things faster, save you money and enhance your business decisions. If you’re considering using an API program to help scale your business, read on.

For many of us, the word ‘Zapier’ has become interchangeable with the word ‘automation’. They are undoubtedly the most prominent and loved integration service out there. Yet it doesn’t mean that Zapier is the best option for everyone, forever. If you are on this page right now, it means you’ve been searching for Zapier alternatives because it just stopped working for you the way it used to.

Identity verification is a crucial step in ensuring someone is who they say they are. This idea is brought through digital identity verification. This reduces the effects of individuals from creating a fraudulent identity, engaging in fraud-related crimes, or acting without the permission of someone else. Organizations must detect the identity of an individual as they manage many prominent security issues like identity theft, data breaches, and fraudulent transactions.

We’re excited to announce the latest release for both Kuma and Kong Mesh. This cycle, we focused on simplifying enterprise-wide mesh deployments. We strongly suggest upgrading, in order to take advantage of the latest and greatest when it comes to service mesh.

Passwords are becoming obsolete, and the tech world is exploring various different technologies to allow users to log in without passwords. In a previous article, we discussed the perils of passwords and how FIDO2 can help us go passwordless. However, FIDO2 is no silver bullet as it comes with its fair share of caveats. Magic link is a viable alternative for all those who do not want to use FIDO2. This article discusses magic link in detail and demonstrates how we can use it with Asgardeo.

GraphQL is a solid alternative to a traditional REST API, and offering one to your users may be easier than you think. Follow along as Kevin Cunningham builds a GraphQL endpoint with Node.js and MongoDB!

Git Sync lets you collaborate with your team on Design Documents that you create in Kong Insomnia. In the last release, we updated the way that Git Sync works for GitHub. We now leverage the OpenID Connect protocol and OAuth2 to make it easier for you to set up Git Sync. Today, we’re excited to announce that we’re bringing that same ease of setup to GitLab repositories as well!

Today, we are excited to announce the general availability of Kong Ingress Controller (KIC) 2.4! Earlier this year, we launched KIC 2.2 with initial support for Kubernetes Gateway API. In this release, we’re adding weighted load balancing and support for TCP and UDP routes, as well as some much needed quality-of-life features for our customers.

Many API developers and companies struggle to find ways to easily set up systems to monetize their APIs. Some are simple but not customizable, some are complex and require massive engineering effort to actually get it all running. To make things easier, Moesif created a feature a few months ago called Billing Meters which gives massive customizability but with a minimal amount of code and engineering effort.

In our final year as undergraduates, we researched how to use human affect and behaviors to anticipate threats posed by other humans. We built a simple website that demonstrated the capabilities of the model we designed.

We’ve recently supported an organization who wanted to expose its Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) backend behind Apigee X. A quite common architecture, which most of the users delivering modern web applications on Google Cloud tend to build upon. In this scenario, Google’s API gateway, Apigee, receives requests and performs L7 routing, redirecting you to the correct backend application, running as one or more pods on GKE.

When you hear “Artificial Intelligence,” (AI) what do you think of? You might picture advanced humanoid robots or futuristic technology from sci-fi movies. But as it turns out, this “futuristic” technology is already integrated into our lives. It exists in our phones, televisions, and homes to make everyday tasks simpler. When it comes to software testing, AI can be implemented into your testing initiatives to increase efficiency.

APIs should always be secure. In this article, I will show you how to invoke endpoints of SCIM, DCR, and Session Management APIs in Asgardeo. There are two ways to invoke APIs in Asgardeo.

Shopify exposes a REST API for 3rd party applications to integrate with. This guide will cover connecting to the Shopify Admin API with Linx using API Keys in conjunction with the HTTP Basic scheme authentication and some request examples.

Photo by Pixabay The world is progressing fast, especially when it comes to the tech industry. In the past, JavaScript was child’s play, condemned to lend some semblance of programmability to web pages. Today, it is taking us to space. At the start, WSO2 Identity Server was a fledgling identity solution reposed in your on-prem servers. Today, we are launching it to the cloud. Asgardeo has been a great achievement for our team.

By now, you’ve probably interacted with a customer service chatbot at some point. However, many of those interactions may have left a lot to be desired. Modern consumers generally expect more than a simple bot that answers questions with predefined answers—they expect a virtual agent that can solve their problems.

Recently, I came across a request from one of our community users looking for a Kong plugin that could look up address details based on a few location search keywords. There are many libraries that support geocoding. I decided to pick up a Python Library as they are simple to use — and the Kong Gateway supports plugins written in Python since version 2.3.

APIs are at the backbone of every modern application that powers our day-to-day lives. As a matter of fact, API traffic today is at least 83% of the world’s global internet traffic , which underlines the importance of modern API infrastructure that can unlock innovation, agility, fast release cycles, IP reuse and more scalable teams. Most of this innovation is driven by technologies that are open source and platform-agnostic, like Kong Gateway.

The joy and woe (sometimes) of working in technology is that we are forever learning. The software stack is ever-evolving, and so many of us in this industry have come to embrace a lifetime of learning. Here at Kong, we are truly passionate about learning and teaching through Kong education. It has been our goal for some time to give our customers, partners and community users the opportunity to demonstrate their skills through a certification and badging program.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is projecting a significant slowdown over the coming years, with global growth dropping sharply from an estimated 6.1 percent in 2021 to 3.6 percent in 2022 and 2023. Meanwhile, Reuters polls reveal that the global streak of high inflation is far from over. As such, businesses need to be doing all they can to maximize their revenue – not through increasing spend on new infrastructure, but by getting maximum business value out of their existing product.