An API gateway is a server that sits between your backend services and your users. It provides an abstraction layer that helps you manage the communication between clients and your services. API gateways are a single point of entry into a microservices application and they work like a reverse proxy: They receive API calls from clients, route them to the right microservices in the backend, and return aggregated responses to clients.
Cloudera Data Platform (CDP) unifies the technologies from Cloudera Enterprise Data Hub (CDH) and Hortonworks Data Platform (HDP). As part of that unification process, Cloudera merged the YARN Scheduler functionality from the legacy platforms, creating a Capacity Scheduler that better services all customers. In merging this scheduler functionality, Cloudera significantly reduced the time and effort to migrate from CDH and HDP.
For the newest instalment in our series of interviews asking leading technology specialists about their achievements in their field, we’ve welcomed Tim Panagos, CTO and Co-founder of IoT data startup Microshare. Tim is a technology executive with over twenty years of experience in enterprise software. Tim was most recently Chief Architect of Accenture’s global Business Process Management (BPM) practice, where he led software architecture innovation.
More IT organizations are leaning on software-defined infrastructure solutions to simplify the management of their applications and workloads than ever before. According to a recent study from Fortune Business Insights, the global software defined data center market is projected to skyrocket from $39.38 billion in 2021, to $169.99 billion over the next six years, or a CAGR of 23.2%.
Modern, cloud-based data infrastructure can serve as a bridge from the beginning of your data journey to the final stages of data maturity.
APIs are everywhere! In this article, you'll learn how to consume external APIs in Laravel using Guzzle.
In March 2022, FIDO Alliance and the W3C WebAuthn working group proposed a new version of the WebAuthn specification where they claim to resolve common usability issues with FIDO while ensuring a high level of security. This has started to gain significant attention in the identity domain during the past couple of months especially with the joint announcement from Google, Apple and Microsoft on their extended support for the FIDO passwordless standard.
When using a testing tool, it is only logical to trust its results. And the more well-known the tool is, the more trust we put in it. Furthermore, how could we know it is wrong? After all, who is in a position to judge the judge? This phenomenon is particularly true in the load testing community, since the field is still something of a niche among the testing world. Finding deep-dive studies about the actual technical aspect of load testing is difficult.
