Meric Aydonat
Senior Product Manager for webMethods API Management at Software AG
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The Ultimate Guide to API Gateways
An application programming interface (API) is the intermediary that facilitates communication between applications. The need for faster innovation and reliance on data sharing between applications has made APIs indispensable to modern ecosystems. Since APIs carry sensitive data between applications, they’ve quickly become an attractive target for malicious attackers. The challenge posed by attackers has led to the introduction of API… -
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Boosting API Consumer Productivity through API Governance
API Governance is about providing tools and controls to create an effective and efficient API strategy. It is usually considered from the API Provider perspective: design linting, lifecycle management, applying security policies, monitoring usage, etc. These are all crucial tasks that help create an effective API strategy and their importance cannot be stressed enough. However, there is another persona in… -
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The battle of architectures: Monoliths vs. microservices
You may have read a recent blog post from Amazon about how they achieved 90% cost savings by converting microservices applications into a monolith. This article from one of the early champions of microservices started a healthy discussion about microservices vs. monoliths. In this article, let's compare these two architectural styles to make an informed decision on when to use which.… -
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API Governance Best Practices
Proliferation of APIs, API sprawl, multi-vendor API management landscape… These terms are often mentioned, proving that organizations are all-in on APIs. So many APIs are being created and made available it is becoming harder to keep track, manage, and secure all of them. That's why API governance is making a comeback with the hope of putting some structure around all… -
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How Visual Implementations Increase API Security
APIs allow software applications to leverage data and functionality from other applications by facilitating their interactions. As a key component in microservice architectures, APIs open up applications to internal and external access, allowing you to integrate services and exchange data easily. However, while APIs may be valuable assets, they can quickly become a liability. Their endpoints are the most-exposed components… -
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API governance and security: An API management power couple
API governance means setting up and enforcing the standards for security, compliance, style, metadata, lifecycle, taxonomy, and versioning. In today's fast-paced environment that requires quick decision-making and implementation, having to create standards and complying with those on a daily basis is seen as detrimental. Some projects drag on for years because of never-ending checks and balances as well as the… -
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Create a winning API Marketplace with a developer portal
APIs are channels to open up an organization's data and capabilities. They create synergies between organizations or business units to grow the overall pie or to greatly increase the speed of delivery. To take advantage of these benefits, organizations are increasingly open to using APIs not necessarily created by their teammates. These APIs may be created by different business units… -
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What are API Marketplaces & Why Participate in One?
APIs are the standard way of sharing data and capabilities in organizations as well as across organizations. They provide an interface and a contract to take advantage of other teams' resources. As a result, they create synergies and make it possible to create value that is greater than what a single team can create with only its own resources. These… -
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Common misconceptions about API monetization
APIs have well-established themselves as the standard way of creating value out of data and "API Economy" has become the buzzword for generating cash out of APIs. In order to take advantage of this trend and generate the most value out of API programs, you might be looking for effective ways to open your organization's data for business. API monetization…
