Integration & APIs 
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…
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Integration & APIs
How to Avoid API Data Leaks
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…
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Integration & APIs
Leaning Into the Future: An Interview with Sanjay Brahmawar
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…
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Integration & APIs
Best Practices for API Security in 2023
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…
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Integration & APIs
How to Build an API with Security in Mind
Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the preferred means of connecting modern applications and have become an indispensable part of application development. Businesses rely on them to share data with developers, third parties, and customers. However, the data they handle and…
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Integration & APIs
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…
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Integration & APIs
You need to set business KPIs for your APIs. Here’s why.
APIs are top-notch profit generators. They can accelerate innovation, improve business efficiency, and open the doors to new lines of revenue. But often, companies fail to harness the profit potential of their APIs by not aligning their API development and…
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Integration & APIs
API Security: Preventing Vulnerabilities and Attacks
API Security is one of the top concerns for most organizations. The headlines are full of news of cybersecurity attacks and APIs are becoming a bigger target every day. Recently, I had the opportunity to join Keith Casey and Matthias…
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Integration & APIs
API Security Lessons from Sherlock Holmes
What can we learn about API Security from the great detective Sherlock Holmes? If you carefully follow the clues left behind, you can find three principles and best practices that can be valuable to secure your APIs today. Software AG's…
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Integration & APIs
Don’t let API risk keep you from API opportunity
Were you one of the hundreds of thousands of people who moved your workouts to the basement with a Peloton in the last 2 years? Guess what – you probably shared your personal information with the world. Or maybe you…
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Integration & APIs
What are you doing about API security?
APIs drive everything in this current economy; from smartphones to smart watches to smart cars, people use smart API-connected devices and tools for their work and play. Industry verticals such as banking, retail, healthcare, and even government, are dependent on…
