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A good business model is one that can easily generate revenue. Often, when developers build something it could easily be packaged and used by another organization. This is extremely true when it comes to APIs. If an API is solving a well-known problem, there is likely a market for it. Being able to expose an API for public consumption can be done in many ways, a popular option being using an API gateway. The real hurdle comes when you decide to start billing for usage.

An integration platform as a service (iPaaS) solution is a set of tools that help businesses integrate applications across environments and formats. While some companies have the resources to handle this integration themselves, an iPaaS solution is often able to handle things more efficiently while bringing in new features (like hands-on support) to ensure the solution is effective and affordable for the business.

In the previous article, we walked through an example of how to use input parameter binding to send data to a MySQL database using the native MySQL C API and then compared that to the clean simplicity of using the SourcePro DB API. In this final article, we are going to walk through building an example that can invoke a stored procedure with an input parameter of the name of a new account holder and an output parameter of the new account id assigned by the database.

Customer identity and access management (CIAM) has become indispensable for organizations. According to an article by the Business Research Company, the CIAM market is expected to reach $45.56 billion in 2025, at a compound annual growth rate of 18.6%. The research firm adds that the increasing use of Internet of Things (IoT) devices — such as smartphones, smartwatches, smart homes and medical sensors — will be the primary driving factor for this growth.

AWS Lambda has been around for a few years now, and it remains the most popular way to experiment with serverless technology. If you're not familiar with serverless, it's a model of development in which managing, provisioning, and scaling servers is abstracted away from application development. Servers do exist in a serverless world, but they are completely managed by the cloud provider, allowing developers to focus on packaging their code for deployment.

In this Kongcast episode, Josh Long, Spring Developer Advocate at VMware, dives into how Spring changed the way developers build Java applications and introduces you to Spring Native. Check out the transcript and video from our conversation below, and be sure to subscribe to get email alerts for the latest new episodes.

DreamFactory is proud to announce that we’ve been awarded three of G2’s prestigious awards in the API Management category for the 2022 Spring quarter. DreamFactory has been recognized for… DreamFactory consistently achieves high ratings from customers! We currently hold a 4.5/5 star rating from customers.

Interdependence and collaboration between businesses and commercial sectors have changed in recent years with the use of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs). APIs have been around long enough for companies to know that they can use open web technologies to extend their services via in-app integrations. APIs allow two programs to communicate with one another and exchange data in a smooth manner. Once an API has been created, it is vital to test the interface to ensure that it is functional.

Elasticsearch is an open-source search engine and analytics store used by a variety of applications from search in e-commerce stores, to internal log management tools using the ELK stack (short for “Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana”). As a distributed database, your data is partitioned into “shards” which are then allocated to one or more servers.