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July 2023

6 Practical Examples of APIs in Everyday Life

APIs are bits of software that act as interpreters for two different programs. They’ll connect to each service via endpoints and relay messages back and forth, doing the work of software integration for you. But how does this actually look in the real world? Read on for some examples of APIs. Here’s the key things to know about some of the examples of APIs in everyday life: Table of Contents.

REST Client Made Easy: Exploring Top Libraries Across Languages

REST Client is like a messenger that helps applications talk to a server that provides a RESTful API. It handles tasks such as sending requests for data, updating resources, creating new records, or deleting existing ones. Imagine you need to retrieve information from a remote server or update data in a database. REST clients act as intermediaries, helping your application send requests to the server and receive responses back.

Understanding the Difference - Web APIs vs. Web Services

In today's digital world, where systems need to work together smoothly and communicate effectively, two important terms come into play, APIs and web services. These are the tools that help different applications and systems connect with each other seamlessly. APIs are like secret keys that unlock specific functions and data, saving time for developers and allowing them to reuse code.

Data Driven Testing in ReadyAPI

In this short video we demonstrate an example of data driving tests by using an excel sheet as a datasource. This is just one of many datasource options in ReadyAPI. This is extremely useful and time saving when testing an application with multiple sets of data values during regression testing or performing repetitive tasks with data that changes often.

Gateway to the Future: A Brief History of Kubernetes Ingress

Join Viktor Gamov, a Principal Developer Advocate with Kong, as he navigates the evolution of Kubernetes Ingress. Starting with the basics, he’ll explain how Ingress is pivotal in managing external access to services within a Kubernetes cluster through HTTP and HTTPS routes. In this talk, Viktor will also address its limitations – the challenge of managing multiple Ingress resources, inconsistencies across different controllers, and inherent limitations in handling non-L7 protocols like TCP and UDP.

Accelerate Your Career with WSO2 Training and Certification

Welcome to the world of WSO2 Training, where cutting-edge technologies meet skilled developers to unlock the full potential of your career and organization. Whether you are an individual developer looking to enhance your skills or a business seeking to foster a highly capable workforce, our training and certification programs offer many benefits that can positively impact your job performance, career prospects, and overall development.

A Beginner's Guide to API Data Formats: JSON, XML, Plain Text, and Binary

Imagine you are sending a message to your friend, but you want to ensure that no one else can understand it. So lets say you are encoding your message using a special language that only you and your friend knows. This way, even if someone intercepts the message, they won't be able to understand its true meaning. The encoded message itself is what we call the "payload." In the world of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces), the concept of a payload is quite similar.

A Step-by-step guide to creating production-ready APIs in Go with Gin and Gorm

Take your API development skills to the next level with Go, Gin, JWT, and Gorm. Follow this detailed step-by-step guide to create robust, secure, and production-ready APIs that harness the power of authentication, authorization, and database integration.

How to Fix a SIGILL Kong Crash on Arm64

Kong will crash on the ARM64 platform (the machine with Mac M1/M2 chips or any ARM64 platform). The error message shows the crash is triggered by the SIGILL signal, which means there is an illegal instruction in the Kong binary code. And it turns out to be caused by an error in the LuaJIT ARM64 JIT compiler. This post records how the error is found and fixed.

API Infrastructure is Mission Critical - and Increasingly Under Attack

APIs have revolutionized every industry. They fuel digital transformation and power the web, making up more than 83% of global internet traffic. And API adoption will only grow, with AI, Web3, and decentralization only further driving API usage and integration. But these sometimes-overlooked enablers of connectivity and communication present a serious security challenge: APIs are increasingly in the crosshairs of cyber-attackers.

Documenting APIs on Amazon API Gateway: Code-First or Design-First, The Choice Is Yours

One of the hardest debates is deciding between a code-first API approach or design-first. In an ideal world, we would deliver our APIs at maximum velocity, with minimum maintenance. To maintain the appropriate API consumption, the world has looked at Amazon’s API Gateway as the orchestration of resources to create, deploy, and manage APIs at scale. One of the biggest challenges users face when using any API Gateway is the lack of consistency and standardization throughout the API experience.

Working with APIs

We will be discussing how to work with APIs using WSO2 API Manager in this session. You will learn about Rate limiting policies which would help you to protect your API from exhaustion, how API Policies can help modify your requests and responses and how API versions and revisions can help maintain your API changes. You will also understand about the Lifecycle of APIs, how to perform testing and prototyping when required, how to specify access control and visibility and also about the inbuilt user roles which helps you carry out each of these functionalities easily in WSO2 API Manager.

Legacy to Cloud Migration | The Pros and Cons

Evaluating your business’ legacy to cloud migration strategy is a necessary step for successful digital transformation. Legacy systems are old software applications and infrastructure that are still in use by businesses today. They were often built on outdated technologies and may not be compatible with modern cloud platforms. However, legacy systems can also provide a number of benefits, such as stability, reliability, and familiarity.

How to Use the ChatGPT API with Golang

ChatGPT is like that cool, incredibly talented artist every band wants to collaborate with. When you need something extra, something that will give your application a bit of zing, that's where ChatGPT comes in. It's got that rhythm that gets feet tapping. This guide will take you step-by-step on how to bring together the text-generating wizardry of ChatGPT with the simplicity and efficiency of Golang, opening up exciting new possibilities for crafting more intelligent applications.

How to Use the ChatGPT API with Java

Imagine harnessing the power of ChatGPT's human-like responses right from your Java code! It'd be like adding a supercharger to your already powerful engine. This step-by-step, hands-on guide (with full example code at the end) will show you exactly how to integrate, interact, and leverage this union so you can build smarter applications. Before you know it, you'll have Java and ChatGPT playing nice to deliver a user experience that's nothing short of mind-blowing.

API Cost Calculator: How Much Does it Cost to Build an API?

You need to save money, deploy projects faster, and spend more time on developing application experiences that enthrall users. It is practically a certainty that APIs will play a critical role in your software development process, but how much does it cost to build an API? Learn more about DreamFactory’s API cost calculator in this blog article! Here’s the key things to know about our API Cost Calclator: Table of Contents.

Leveraging Mesh Global Rate Limit Policy in Kong Mesh 2.3

In today’s interconnected and dynamic world of microservices, ensuring optimal traffic management and protection against malicious attacks are critical. Rate limiting, a popular mechanism for controlling request flow, gets more effortless with the introduction of Global Rate Limiting in Kong Mesh. In this blog post, we’ll explore this exciting new feature and its benefits in detail.

Enhancing APIOps and Federated API Management with decK 1.24

We are thrilled to announce that we have reached a significant milestone in our journey to provide the best possible developer experience to our Kong user community. We have added a host of new functionality to decK, our declarative management tool for Kong Gateway. These new functions enhance API lifecycle automation (APIOps) capabilities and provide a smoother path to federated API management. These features are now available to everyone and can be found in decK 1.24.0.

Build Vs Buy: API Management Solutions

API-first startups must prioritize the development and utilization of their Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) as the foundation of their growth model. API-based organizations heavily rely on management and analytics to ensure the smooth functioning, monitoring, and optimization of their APIs. However, the decision to build or buy an API management tool becomes crucial as it directly impacts the SaaS provider’s resource allocation, time-to-market, and overall business strategy.

PoC in a Day vs. PoC in a Month with Moesif

In today’s digital landscape, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) play a crucial role in enabling seamless integration and communication between software applications and platforms. With API technology being front and center in digital transformation, there has been a significant rise in the demand for API-first solutions that offer a wide array of services for software developers.

How APIs are Critical for Your Company's AI Strategy

With the rise of ChatGPT and Artificial Intelligence, the role of APIs has become increasingly crucial. The recent launch of OpenAI’s ChatGPT API has generated significant interest and holds immense potential for businesses worldwide. Although much has been written on the topic of how to integrate ChatGPT into your existing product or application, there hasn’t been much discussion around how integrating your API into ChatGPT can power organizational insights and growth.

The Benefits of Oracle DBMS for Your Organization

Oracle Database—or Oracle DBMS—consolidates, stores, and retrieves large amounts of big data. With a market value of $253,206, Oracle Corporation is one of the largest technology companies in the world. But why use Oracle DBMS in your organization? In this post, learn the benefits of Oracle DBMS and how DreamFactory makes it easier to use this relational database management system. Here are the key things to know about the benefits of Oracle DBMS: Table of Contents.

Enabling gRPC and HTTP/2 support at the edge with Kuma and Envoy

Our thing is to let you deploy your apps globally in less than 5 minutes with high-end performance. Not only does this require us to be meticulous about everything composing our infrastructure layer, but also we have to support high-level protocols like WebSockets, HTTP/2, and gRPC. There are two major things in the infrastructure impacting performance: hardware and network. On the hardware side, we deploy all apps inside microVMs on top of high-end bare metal servers around the world.

Selenium vs. Out-of-the-Box Test Automation Tools: Which Is Right for You?

Test automation has become an essential part of the software development process. Rather than spending hours conducting manual tests, you can write a script once and execute it with each release. This helps to maximize test coverage and save time, resulting in lower testing costs and a better customer experience. But which test automation tool should you use? What’s the difference?

What is a Legacy System and Why Are They in Use?

“Legacy system” is a phrase that professionals use a lot, and it has a lot of negative connotations. Some businesses feel they need to avoid legacy systems at all costs, while others find that most of their major operations depend on outdated software or processes. But even though a business may find older systems that run legacy applications are essential, it’s time to consider whether the risks are worth it. Here are the key things to know about legacy systems: Table of Contents.

Which Mobile Testing Framework is Right for You?

Mobile apps are essential for many businesses to reach their target customer. As a result, flawless performance has become a top priority. Mobile testing plays a crucial role in this context by validating an app’s functionality, usability, and security across different devices, operating systems, and network environments. However, choosing the proper testing framework can be daunting due to the sheer number of options available and the unique considerations of each one.

Managing Kong Routes in Multi-Cloud Environments

Join Frederik Nakstad and Adelina Simion from Form3 to learn how they use the Kong Ingress Controller to manage service routes on Form3’s multi-cloud platform. You’ll get an overview of Form3’s platform and environment configuration and how they moved from a legacy ECS solution to running Kong in a Kubernetes-native way with the Kong Ingress Controller. This approach provides useful abstractions and makes it easier for the Form3 service teams to configure routes.

API Exploration for Developers

In today's interconnected world, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have become the backbone of modern software development. APIs allow developers to leverage existing functionalities, integrate systems, and unleash the full potential of their applications. However, with the rapid growth and evolving landscape of APIs, developers often face challenges in exploring and effectively utilizing these powerful tools.

How to Reverse Engineer APIs: The Benefits and Tools

Interoperability is one of the main reasons to reverse engineer APIs. Unlike a few decades ago, when software could exist in isolation, nowadays, a program runs on a complicated operating system and involves communication with several libraries created by different people. Reverse engineering APIs for interoperability involves API integration and learning new ways in which programs can exchange and use information.

Building APIs with Node.js and gRPC

Building applications with gRPC is becoming an increasingly popular choice because of its performance and scalability. gRPC provides many benefits over traditional REST-based services, such as faster response times, better performance, and simpler code structure. In this comprehensive guide, we will walk you through the process of building a gRPC server using Node.js.

EP2: Sizing Up Services - The Pragmatism of Micro, Mini, and Monoliths

In 'Sizing Up Services: The Pragmatism of Micro, Mini, and Monoliths,' we explore the technical intricacies of pragmatic application architecture. We dive deep into microservices, miniservices, and monolithic architectures, explaining their real-world applications and organizational impacts. The episode also sheds light on how these architectural patterns influence the design and structuring of business domains. Join us for a technical deep-dive into service sizes and make more informed architectural decisions for your projects.

API Analytics and Monetization with Choreo and Moesif

We're excited to announce the partnership between Choreo and Moesif, bringing you an integration for improved API analytics and monetization. Choreo is our application development suite designed to accelerate the creation of digital experiences. It simplifies the process of building, deploying, and monitoring cloud-native applications, boosting productivity and fostering innovation in organizations.

What is Database Stored Procedure Modernization?

Your organization likely relies on stored procedures based on business logic that has worked well in the past. More recent evolutions in areas like application development, automation, open-source application code, workloads, and web services could mean that you need to reassess your stored procedures to find opportunities for improvement.

How To Create a User Funnel in Moesif

User Funnels allow businesses to analyze how individual users are using and converting within their product. Funnel metrics can show how many users are converting through each stage of the funnel and the average time it takes to do so with beautiful graphs and insightful statistics. Join Dylan as he shows users how to set up a conversion funnel analysis in Moesif by leveraging the User Funnels feature.

How To Use Saved Cohorts in Moesif

Saved Cohorts are the driving force behind many features in Moesif such as Dynamic Sampling, Behavioral Emails, and Governance. Saved Cohorts are dynamic lists of users (or companies) that match a defined criteria. Cohort notifications can enable your teams to be notified the minute users start experiencing problems. In this tutorial we’ll take a look at how to set up a simple Saved Cohort, enable notifications, and take a peek at the incredible features that take advantage of Saved Cohorts like Dynamic Sampling, Behavioral Emails, and Governance.

Event-Driven Architecture: Understanding its Significance for Software Development

The concept of Event-driven Architecture (EDA) has gained increasing attention in recent years. EDA is a style of software architecture that emphasizes the communication between software components via events, rather than direct invocation or method calls. In this blog post, we will delve into the concept of EDA and explore its significance in modern software development.

What Are Containerized Microservices?

Containerized microservices are essential to cloud migration and digital transformation plans. Do you have a clear picture of what containerized microservices are and why they’re important? In this guide, you’ll learn about containers, microservices, and how they work together. First up is a bit of history that explains how the need for containers came to be. Here’s the key things to know about containerized microservices: Table of Contents.

How To Use Static Alerts In Moesif

Using alerts can add a lot of value for your team, product, and users. Static alerts work well when the threshold is constant and predictable. Creating a dynamic alert can be done in a matter of minutes, instantly levelling-up your API monitoring strategy. Join Dylan as he shows users how to create Static Alerts within Moesif. In this tutorial, we will cover how to: Powerful API analytics, a perfect companion for your API Gateway, is only a few moments away.

How To Use Dynamic Sampling in Moesif

Join Dylan as we show users how to create Dynamic Sampling rules within Moesif. In this tutorial, we will cover how to: Dynamic sampling is a fantastic cost-savings feature available to customers on our Enterprise plan. Dynamic sampling enables you to control which API calls are logged to Moesif based on customer or API behavior. Moesif will intelligently extrapolate metrics for accurate reporting even with multiple sample rates in place. That means that no matter what rules or sample rates you have set up you can be sure you are still seeing an accurate representation of your data.

Why You Shouldn't Skimp on Both Functional and Visual UI Testing

There are many components to a successful web testing strategy, but one of the most often overlooked is the importance of visual UI testing in addition to functional testing. Most teams will focus on one over the other, but to truly catch as many bugs as possible, you’ll need to incorporate both. First, you need to understand what the difference is and why they’re both needed.

Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) Practices in WSO2 Choreo

MLOps also known as Machine Learning Operations is a core function of Machine Learning engineering, focused on streamlining the process of taking machine learning models to production, and then maintaining and monitoring them. MLOps is a collaborative function, often comprising data scientists, devops engineers, and IT. In this video, you can learn about the basics of MLOps and its applications in Choreo.

Simple REST API Creation for Data Distribution

This is a short, real-world example of how a REST API can be created using Linx. The API will allow for data retrieval from a database. You can create endpoints using a wizard. Linx is a general-purpose, low-code platform for backends. Developers use Linx to build, test, deploy and manage backend solutions such as APIs, integrations and automation.

Types of APIs & Popular REST API Protocol

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are everywhere, and with good reason. These bits of software join apps and microservices together despite different programming languages, operating systems, and data formats. An API can integrate services that otherwise can’t communicate with each other. They lay the groundwork for the most successful digital transformation strategies and composable enterprises.

The Future of API Gateways on Kubernetes

The exponential growth of the Internet and cloud computing has given rise to applications that are smaller, more distributed, and designed for highly dynamic environments capable of rapidly scaling up or down as needed. These applications have pushed the demand for modern API management product architectures that can leverage cloud native capabilities to achieve scalability, resilience, agility, and cost efficiency.

Monetizing APIs: Accelerate Growth and Relieve Strain on Your Engineers

APIs have become increasingly popular in the current SaaS ecosystem due to their ability to seamlessly integrate software systems. APIs provide standardized ways for applications to share data. API monetization is a powerful way for businesses to drive growth and generate revenue from existing API consumer data and usage. By offering your APIs as products or services, your company can tap into new markets, attract more developers, and create self-sustaining ecosystems around your product line.

From Excel to API in minutes

Read data from an Excel file and host that data in a REST API in minutes by using a low-code platform. You can create your own application that will retrieve data from any Excel file. Easily write that data to a new file, apply enrichment and transformation, write it to a database or host it directly on a REST API. How to quickly create an API? Or an integration application? Why not give Low-Code platforms a try?

Quickly create a CRUD API using Low-Code

Quickly create a Create, Read, Update Delete API using low-code. How to quickly create robust and flexible CRUD APIs to take care of your BI data loading needs. Linx is a general-purpose, low-code platform for backends. Developers use Linx to build, test, deploy and manage backend solutions such as APIs, integrations and automation.

Understanding GraphQL: A Comprehensive Comparison With REST API and Its Implementation in Node.js

Application Programming Interface, or API, development is a critical aspect of modern software engineering, enabling diverse software systems to interact and share data seamlessly. The API serves as a contract between different software applications, outlining how they can communicate with one another. Two of the most popular architectural styles for building Web APIs are Representational State Transfer (REST) and GraphQL.

How to Create a Service in WSO2 Choreo | Choreo Community Call #1

Welcome to the WSO2 Choreo Community Call #1! In this session, we will dive into the topic of creating a service in Choreo and explore the various aspects of managing and consuming it. Choreo is a SaaS application development suite designed to accelerate the creation of digital experiences. It powers the creation, collaboration, reuse, and deployment of components like APIs, microservices, and integrations on any Kubernetes cluster to increase productivity and free developers to focus on innovation.

Top 7 REST API Tools

Integrations are everywhere, and data-sharing between systems is more vital than ever. Software applications use application programming interfaces (APIs) to ensure all moving parts work together. A REST API follows specific guidelines that dictate how applications or devices connect and communicate with one another to make integrations simple and scalable.

How to Access Mainframe Data with DreamFactory

Mainframes continue to play a pivotal role in today’s digital landscape, specifically in large-scale, mission-critical industries such as banking, insurance, healthcare, and government. Their impressive transaction handling capabilities, robust security mechanisms, and efficient resource management make them the go-to choice for organizations dealing with large volumes of sensitive, complex data.

Stateful vs. Stateless Web App Design

The difference between stateful and stateless applications is essential when developing APIs. However, if you’re not a developer who’s working with stateful and stateless systems, you might not fully understand these concepts. More importantly, you may not know why stateless REST APIs are so essential to building scalable web applications? Here are the key takeaways to know about stateful vs. stateless apps: Table of Contents.

A Deep Dive into Mutations with Absinthe

In the last two posts of this series, we saw how easy it is to integrate Absinthe into your app to provide a GraphQL API for querying data. We also shared some useful tips for building and maintaining large schemas and optimizing queries. This post will show how we can provide an API to create GraphQL mutations with Absinthe for Elixir. Let's get started!

Understanding SOAP Security

Cybersecurity is one of the top concerns for businesses today. Vulnerabilities make the news when they turn into expensive breaches. With the cloud so prevalent in today’s digital landscape, much attention has turned to API security. Network attacks aimed at APIs increased by an incredible 681% in 2021. Considering the continued popularity of SOAP (simple object access protocol) APIs, it is now a top priority for global IT leaders to learn SOAP’s security best practices.

Enhancing Customer Experiences with CIAM

In a recent interview, David deBoisblanc, managing partner at Duczer East and a valued partner of WSO2, interviewed Geethika Cooray, vice president and general manager of IAM at WSO2, to gain insights into the importance of CIAM for the C-suite and its impact on customer retention. The following excerpts from their conversation look at valuable insights on CIAM, its significance for the C-suite, and the emerging trends in the industry. Here's what Geethika said.