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Understanding Dreamfactory's Docker and Kubernetes Pricing Model

We’re excited to unveil our brand-new Docker and Kubernetes offerings, specifically tailored to give you more flexibility, scalability, and options to manage and deploy your software. As always, transparency is a cornerstone of our relationship with our customers. To ensure clarity, we’ve put together this guide to help you understand our pricing structure for these offerings.

5 Essential Technologies for Microservices App Development

Building a microservices-based application requires a wide range of tools and technologies. Since these tools/technologies work together like a multi-faceted puzzle, it’s difficult for a beginner to understand what they are and why they’re necessary. The goal of this guide is to provide an accessible introduction to each of these essential concepts – all in one place.

How APIs are Powering Digital Transformation for Energy and Utilities

Energy and utilities providers are currently facing more uncertainty than ever before. Volatile prices, geopolitical instability, new technologies and more demands for going green are threatening the future of the entire industry. As a result, their IT teams are under tremendous pressure to start powering digital transformation through productivity improvements, capital efficiencies and development of new revenue streams.

7 Tips for Creating a Successful API

Frequent deployment of APIs can quickly create a software system that is like an overgrown garden, riddled with weeds, bugs, failed integrations, and ill-fitting use cases. Overloaded API collections prevent changes without causing failures. More commonly, they limit the visibility needed to recognize opportunities for feature optimization. Creating a successful API can go a long way to ensuring your organization can avoid many of these problems.

How to Version REST APIs: A Comprehensive Guide

Versioning REST APIs is crucial for ensuring seamless interactions between software applications. In this tutorial, we’ll discuss how to version REST APIs, ensuring that developers can evolve their APIs without disrupting existing users. Here’s what you need to know about REST API versioning: Table of Contents.

Call a PostgreSQL Stored Procedure from an API

The ability to call a PostgreSQL stored procedure from an API allows for rapid development in a secure way. Rather than writing database queries to interact with your data you can utilize an API that can be rapidly developed and reused many times. The reusability of APIs and using stored procedures means if you are scaling from a single backend application to hundreds your APIs will not change. Table of Contents.

API Security Fundamentals: Everything You Need to Know

You’ve probably heard of the Internet of Things (IoT); all those everyday objects that incorporate computing functions. For example, the IoT allows you to connect your phone to your refrigerator. This way, you can know exactly what to buy at the supermarket for that impromptu dinner that night. Perhaps you’re part of a DevOps team, using microservices and containers to build and deploy legacy and cloud-native applications quickly and iteratively.

APIs and Business Logic: What's the Connection?

APIs and business logic is an essential tool when planning API integration. Because the first steps to API integration include accommodating the customer experience and establishing your current technology level, your unique business logic is the key to understanding where your business is and how to move forward. It can also serve as a roadmap to building your own composable enterprise.

Simplifying Database Tests with DreamFactory

DreamFactory can effortlessly create secure internal REST APIs in a matter of minutes, and offers a comprehensive database testing solution. With DreamFactory, you can validate your databases with ease, ensuring they meet your application’s requirements and deliver impeccable performance. In this article we’ll cover how DreamFactory simplifies the database testing process. Here’s the key things to know about simplifying database tests with DreamFactory.