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API management strategy

• Should I use in-house or SaaS tools to develop APIs?

  It's perfectly viable to approach API development using either in-house or SaaS-provided tooling, but each path has its place. Learn how to choose between these two methods. Continue Reading

• API economy

  API economy (application programming interface economy) is a general term that describes the way application programming interfaces (APIs) can positively affect an organization's profitability. Continue Reading

• Integration drives Red Hat 3scale API Management platform roadmap

  Red Hat's Steve Willmott discusses the evolution of 3scale and gives advice for organizations looking to prepare for the future of API management. Continue Reading

• How to smartly manage APIs through their full lifecycle

  Even the most useful and well-designed APIs need to be managed. With the right tool, you can keep the upper hand on the API lifecycle from start to finish. Continue Reading

• Why deploying APIs on serverless frameworks spurs innovation

  Explore why deploying APIs on serverless frameworks can help businesses grow faster and provide innovative services while decreasing developers' workloads and lowering IT costs. Continue Reading

• Definitions to Get Started

  • API economy
  • API management
  • application program interface (API)
  • RESTful API

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  • OAuth
  • polyfill
  • XMLHttpRequest

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• API deployments on serverless frameworks catching on

  In a stealthy way, serverless APIs have moved out of the “shiny new thing” phase to being enterprise software developers’ favorite way to bypass development overhead when delivering applications, ...Continue Reading

• How the use of APIs helps spur business innovation

  Change isn't always cheap. However, by taking an API-first approach, businesses can innovate in a safe, effective and low-cost manner.Continue Reading

• API management

  API management is the process of overseeing application programming interfaces (APIs) in a secure, scalable environment.Continue Reading

• Test your IQ on microservices principles and strategies

  Think you have a good handle on microservices and how to properly introduce them to your organization? Take a shot at this quiz to find out for yourself.Continue Reading

• A guide to open source technology in application development

  Open source has certainly made an impact, including in application development and management. This guide looks at some of the latest open source tools and strategies to consider.Continue Reading

• application program interface (API)

  An application program interface (API) is code that allows two software programs to communicate with each other.Continue Reading

• Beware of complexity in API and microservices development

  Discover the hidden costs and complexities of API and microservices development and management, as well as some technologies that help software pros reduce those costs.Continue Reading

• Microservices development presents integration, deployment challenges

  New development technologies and styles like microservices come with a fair share of integration concerns. See how software pros handle them.Continue Reading

• Solving microservices modern integration issues

  New development technologies and styles like microservices come with a fair share of integration concerns. See how software pros handle them.Continue Reading

• RESTful API

  A RESTful API is an application program interface (API) that uses HTTP requests to GET, PUT, POST and DELETE data. A RESTful API -- also referred to as a RESTful web service -- is based on representational state transfer (REST) technology, an ...Continue Reading