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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…

With the shift from monolithic applications to microservices and cloud computing, APIs are now commonplace. They help facilitate communication between multiple applications, services, and end users and have revolutionized how web applications are built.   However, while APIs have helped accelerate…

As the world races towards digital transformation, generative AI technologies like ChatGPT have emerged as game-changers. They're reshaping industries, from finance to retail, and offering innovative solutions for managing technical debt and API security. I had the pleasure of discussing…

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…

Since its conception, the modern API ecosystem has become much more complex and sophisticated to meet the increasing demands of today's digital world. In their early days, APIs were relatively simple, often consisting of straightforward endpoints that clients could use…

APIs make the modern world go round. They are the glue that holds most enterprise systems and processes together. APIs come with a lot of benefits that are not only technical. They help power the shift from rigid, monolithic on-premises…

When you stand at the foot of a high-rise building and you bend your neck to admire its height, you tend to forget that most of the engineering genius actually does not go into the very top. The most important…

Application programming interface (API) security means protecting APIs — the ones you own and those you consume — from interception, exploitation, or misuse. Their shared use is critical to software development. However, APIs pose a security risk because they enable…

Overcoming the challenges of digital transformation will require your business to be smarter in the way that it uses technology. We all know that the foreseeable future will be reliant on APIs - but because they don’t exist in a…

For the past few months, ChatGPT has been wowing us with its ability to, say, write Shakespearian sonnets about our mother-in-law’s collection of garden gnomes (Amidst the blooms and blossoms they do dwell / A whimsical and merry company /…