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Imagine that you need to know the exact location of the train that you’re about to catch. Trains can be equipped with IoT sensors that can publish location coordinates via Kafka streams in real time. You will be using a mobile application to view a train’s location. Mobile applications and web applications are compatible with WebSocket, a web-friendly protocol, but the location data is received via a Kafka stream. How do we convert the real-time Kafka feed into a real-time WebSocket feed?

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) finalized the CMS-0057-F Interoperability and Prior Authorization Rule, which marks a pivotal shift in U.S. healthcare, requiring payers, providers, and health IT vendors to enable seamless data exchange through FHIR APIs. The rule is designed to reduce administrative burden, improve care coordination, and empower patients with timely access to their health information.

Every year, WSO2Con brings together developers, tech enthusiasts, and IT leaders from around the world to dive into the latest in APIs, identity management, integration, and now AI. It’s a space to learn from keynotes and hands-on sessions, share best practices, and get a first look at what’s new from WSO2. So when people walked into the AI Labs at WSO2Con, they expected to hear about AI agents. What they didn’t expect was to meet one, embodied inside a four-legged robot dog.

Visual diagrams serve as a bridge across centuries, transforming complex systems into simplified forms by using abstraction to illuminate essential relationships and structures. A good example is Leonardo da Vinci’s 15th-century flying machine sketches that remain intuitive and understandable even today, after 500-plus years. That’s the power of architecture diagrams: they simplify complex systems into clear visuals, making complexity understandable now and in the future.

Enterprises often host their backend services within private internal networks, whether in on-premises data centers or restricted cloud environments. This setup is essential for protecting sensitive data, meeting compliance requirements, and reducing exposure to external threats. But it also introduces a major hurdle: how do you let external consumers and partners access the right APIs without opening unnecessary doors into your private infrastructure?

Vietnam is one of Asia's most significant high-growth markets for open banking adoption. With a young, tech-savvy population, rapid digital adoption, and a vibrant fintech ecosystem, the country is uniquely positioned to leapfrog traditional banking models. Vietnam's financial sector is ripe for mobile-first innovation. The country has roughly 49 financial institutions and an internet penetration rate approaching 80% supported by a youthful, digitally proficient population.

In January this year, financial institutions across the EU were faced with a clear mandate – the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA): to ensure digital resilience, maintain service continuity and strengthen oversight of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) partners.

At least, the old version of it, the painstaking, build-it-all-yourself, duct-tape-and-dashboards era. If you’ve been around long enough, you’ve seen this movie before. Remember when system engineers were the backbone of IT? Then AWS came along, and in a matter of years, many system engineers evolved into cloud engineers, shifting from racking servers to designing scalable cloud architectures. The role didn’t disappear. It transformed.

Continuous integration and continuous delivery/deployment (CI/CD) in API management refers to the automation of building, testing, publishing, and promoting APIs across environments (development, staging, and production) using CI/CD practices. It brings DevOps principles to the API lifecycle, enabling faster and more reliable API releases.