Tag: APIs

July 11, 2024

Just a handful of years ago we couldn’t stop talking about serverless computing. Then it seemed to disappear, overtaken first by Kubernetes and then by artificial intelligence. But of course, like most technologies, it’s still there, delivering the on-demand compute […]

August 31, 2023

Because our APIs handle private and sensitive data, it is imperative that we adopt proven strategies to secure them. We have many ways to secure APIs, starting with firewalling them behind an API gateway and accessing them over secure connections. […]

August 29, 2023

As our software-based business has gotten deeper into the GraphQL API ecosystem, we’ve picked up some valuable best practices along the way. The open source query language is the future of APIs, but getting it to hum (and hum at […]

January 23, 2023

The developers of Google’s V8 JavaScript/WebAssembly engine have introduced the JavaScript Promise Integration (JSPI) API, allowing WebAssembly applications that assume access to external functionality is synchronous to smoothly function in asynchronous environments. Currently in an experimental stage, JSPI should not […]

October 27, 2021

Inner source is the idea of using open source techniques to develop internal tools, using platforms such as GitHub for collaboration. Engineers across a company identify common issues and technologies and work together to build a single solution to all […]

August 11, 2021

When working in web applications in ASP.NET Core, you might often want to build services that are lightweight — i.e., services that don’t have a template or controller class — for lower resource consumption and improved performance. You can create […]

July 27, 2021

Aligning itself with the sensibilities of its enterprise customers, Google Cloud has announced the Google Enterprises APIs initiative to assuage fears about losing vital resources. These Enterprise APIs will be subject to strict guidelines regarding any changes that could affect […]

June 14, 2018

Nowadays, it is increasingly easier to lose one’s self in dashboards, visualisation tools, nice graphics, and all sorts of button-like approaches to cloud computing. Since the last decade, UX work has improved tenfold; nevertheless, there is a side that usually […]

May 9, 2018

API, for application programming interface, is one of those acronyms that is used everywhere from command-line tools to enterprise Java code to Ruby on Rails web apps. Unless you write every single line of code from scratch, you’re going to […]

March 6, 2018

It has been an interesting week or so for Google Cloud, both directly and indirectly. The company has announced new APIs, updates and customers for its healthcare cloud initiative, while other high-profile customers have been disclosed. At HiMSS, the healthcare […]

March 16, 2015

A startup fresh out of private beta offers a three-way intersection between machine learning, the API economy, and open source developers’ need to monetize their creations.Algorithmia, which launched privately last year, allows users to build algorithms, make them available as a […]