Since October is cybersecurity awareness month, it’s a great time to revisit the question of what are the best ways to secure user authentication in CIAM. In many industries (finance and healthcare, to name a few), regulations require the use of multifactor authentication (MFA) to protect access to sensitive data and transactions.
The Apache Solr cluster is available in CDP Public Cloud, using the “Data exploration and analytics” data hub template. In this article we will investigate how to connect to the Solr REST API running in the Public Cloud, and highlight the performance impact of session cookie configurations when Apache Knox Gateway is used to proxy the traffic to Solr servers. Information in this blog post can be useful for engineers developing Apache Solr client applications.
APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) facilitate interaction between two programs. For example, an application providing weather details talks to the API created by the weather department to get all relevant information. SlashData found that more than 90% of developers use API- a feat significant to demonstrate the significance of the interface.
Hello everyone, Hope you are all doing well. We are aware that API testing is getting a lot of attention nowadays and we testers are more curious to explore it. But, often we felt lost in the middle of nowhere. It’s because of the lack of the basics. Before handling the API, you should know some basic stuff about that API. What type of API is that? What protocol is used by the API? Sounds interesting? Today we will learn about the types of APIs and the types of protocols used by the APIs.
In today’s cloud ecosystem the demands for high functioning and high performance observability, security and networking functionality for applications and their network traffic are as high as ever. Historically a great deal of this kind of functionality has been implemented in userspace, but the ability to program these kinds of things directly into the operating system can be very beneficial to performance.
Users continue to give Kong top rankings in the Fall 2022 G2 reports, landing Kong in the leader quadrant in the API Management Tools G2 Grid and the Top 5 Easiest to Use API Management Tools. There are plenty of reasons why Kong is king when it comes to API management. But don’t just take our word for it! See what some of our users have to say.
One major reason for digging into API and product analytics is to be able to easily identify trends in the data. Of course, trends can be very tough to see when looking at something like raw API call logs but can be much easier when looking at a chart aimed at easily allowing you to visualize trends. Enter the Time Series chart.
Many API developers and companies struggle to find ways to set up systems to monetize their APIs easily. Some are simple but not customizable and some are complex and require massive engineering effort to actually get it all running. To make things easier, Moesif created the Billing Meters feature which gives massive customizability but with a minimal amount of code and engineering effort to monetize APIs.
WSO2 recently announced the release of their Private CIAM Cloud service, and it made me think about the changing role of personal identity versus business entity in today’s complex distributed software environments. The CIAM space has evolved far beyond the traditional end user’s need for identity and access to applications in a B2C (business to customer) scenario.
Speedscale creates load tests from recorded traffic so generating load is pretty core to what we do. As a brief overview, we record traffic from your service in one environment and replay it in another, optionally increasing load several fold. During a replay the Speedscale load generator makes requests against the system under test (SUT), with the responses from external dependencies like APIs or a payment processor optionally mocked out for consistency. Your service is the SUT here. Currently the load generator runs as a single process, usually inside a pod in Kubernetes. So how fast is this thing, and how did we get to where we are today?
We introduced the concept of Secrets Management in the Kong Gateway 2.8 release, and we’re happy to share that as of the recent Kong Gateway 3.0 release we’re giving it the Kong seal of approval! That means that you can rely on Secrets Management in production to manage all of your sensitive information.
As the rate of delivery for applications and services continues to rise, performance testing often takes a backseat in the race to delivering apps on-time. This 2022 holiday season is expected to be bigger than ever, with holiday shopping growing 15.5% to $236 billion. During this make-or-break time of year, companies can’t afford for their apps to become unreliable under heavy load.
This guide will take you through the steps to build and host an API using Linx. It will cover building a straightforward API to retrieve product data. You will be provided with the data, instructions for what tools to use, relevant scripts and all steps to get the API live. It will take about 20 to 30 minutes to complete all steps.
Today, the exponential growth of APIs shows no sign of slowing down. Digitally driven enterprises understand that they must deliver enhanced digital experiences to achieve sustained growth, faster innovation, and meet modern consumer needs.
Are you looking to grow your business? Deliver more value to your customers? Well, understanding API usage should be at the top of your priority list, right after the ability to track API usage and API monitoring. By using Moesif for understanding your customer’s API usage, you can unlock many different insights, such as Understanding these key insights can help make informed business and engineering decisions.
Since the initial launch of Kong Konnect Cloud, one common feature request has (unsurprisingly) been Multi-Region support. Many customers look for SaaS solutions that support a distributed service architecture. Even at its inception, our goal was to support more than a single region. Today, we’re happy to announce Multi-Region Support for Kong Konnect Cloud.
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.
API load testing, which identifies how stable your APIs are under different workloads, is a crucial part of performance testing. In this guide you will learn what is API load testing, when to perform load testing, and more. One growing pain of increasing iterative development and shortening release cycles is a growing inability to detect and fix inefficient code – whether in the CI/CD pipeline or in production.
In today’s digital business landscape, APIs have become the most important digital asset. One study found that 83% of all internet traffic belongs to API-based services. APIs act as the reusable building block that employees, partners, and customers can easily access from anywhere. Figure 1: API security overview This has also made APIs the top security challenge for most companies. In a recent survey, about 94% of respondents noted that they had faced an API security issue over the past year.
Kong Gateway provides dynamic plugin ordering allowing administrators to control plugin execution order. Dynamic plugin ordering was added in Kong Enterprise 3.0 and the full technical reference is available in the official documentation. (Check out the overview of what’s new in Kong Gateway 3.0 announced at Kong Summit 2022.)
As you may know, event logs are a common feature in operating systems and other software that keep track of system and application errors. When you have API traffic to follow or front-end actions you want to watch, using Moesif’s Live Event Log is a simple way to filter and find the data you need.
