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In 2018, Kong was first positioned onto the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Lifecycle API Management Market as a Visionary. This in itself was a very impressive feat given that Kong was started as an open source project just three years before that. I believe Kong’s progress on the Magic Quadrant in this short span of time speaks to how we have aligned Kong’s solutions to our customers’ most challenging problems.

We’re excited to share that Gartner has recognized Google (Apigee) as a Leader in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management, marking the fifth time in a row we’ve earned this recognition. In this year’s report, Google (Apigee) is placed highest among all the vendors for the ability to execute.

You have an API program that developers are adopting; Customers have signed up, but some haven’t integrated yet; Of those that have integrated, a few got stuck early on and went silent; Ideally, you’d like to help both sets of customers move through the developer funnel. Moesif can act a catalyst for your developers, proactively informing them of integration issues before frustration sets in and they give up. Ensure they have a good experience – unblock your customers ASAP.

There is no debate that the advent of OAuth 2.0 made the lives of developers everywhere better. OAuth 2.0 makes adding an authentication system to your app or web page became considerably easy. Many different service providers support the OAuth 2.0 spec and, in turn, so does DreamFactory. Below are the supported OAuth services DreamFactory which are supported natively.

Hiring a New York or Menlo Park white-shoe law firm to write your app’s Terms of Service (ToS) might bring peace of mind, but how do you ensure that your expensive rules are actually adhered to. Just like the pervasive abuse of customer review guidelines in B2C companies, B2B companies also suffer from multiple/unverified review problems. Similarly, by their design, APIs are also vulnerable to misuse by bad actors, but this time through brute force attacks.

As with any product lifecycle, a key responsibility for API architects and API product owners is deciding when to sunset or retire a feature or offering. The API lifecycle is no different, but requires careful planning to carry out the deprecation to minimize customer impact. Unlike a packaged solution or module which is more of a black box, APIs enable your customers to build custom functionality which may have required months of integration work and testing.

Kong for Kubernetes is a Kubernetes Ingress Controller and a full-fledged edge-router which can route traffic to any destination of your choice. In addition to Ingress management, it provides enhanced security and management capabilities. With Kong, you can use Kubernetes not just for running your workloads but also for securing and monitoring connectivity between your workloads – all managed via Kubernetes manifests .

As a follow up to our previous blog post about retrieving related data from that REST API, I wanted to dive deeper into the power of the “related records” feature of DreamFactory’s database-backed APIs. One of the powerful features of SQL databases is the ability to relate separate data records and perform queries that retrieve that related data all at once. One problem is that this requires a fairly in-depth knowledge of your database, it’s schema, and SQL syntax.

This is the second in a series of playbooks that walks you through the steps required to automate key monitoring and altering functions within your product. Through automation, Moesif will save you time, resources and energy. Automating repetitive processes is a key attribute in whole-product design. By combining payload observability with behavioral emails, Moesif’s able to make you more productive through sophisticated workflows of many functional, performance and product issues.