An API (Application Programming Interface) is a set of rules and protocols that let software programs communicate with each other. It acts as an intermediary between different software or services. For example, when using a mobile app to book a hotel room, the API allows the app to communicate with the hotel’s booking system. While many REST API developers have their way of doing things, some factors in API development are generally considered essential.

Maintaining standards in an ever-growing codebase that multiple developers contribute to can be difficult and tedious. Ensuring that the codebase follows best practices and does not deviate from the standards is essential for any project. But this is typically something that can only be enforced manually by code reviews and other similar processes. As with any other manual task, this can be time-consuming, tedious, and error-prone. That's where architecture testing comes in.

The Ably service handles massive amounts of data throughput and concurrent connections for many customers while maintaining a highly reliable and available service, with a 5x9s uptime guarantee. Ably has no scale ceiling, and that’s challenging work (it’s one of the reasons I joined Ably). While the challenges we face in delivering our service are compelling, we sometimes face novel internet scale problems, such as breaching the limits of AWS services!

API (application programming interface) document works as a developer’s compass for navigating complex services. In this guide, we provide straightforward insights into crafting excellent API documentation. At the end of this article, you will know how to succeed as both creators and consumers of APIs through effective documentation.

Automation and artificial intelligence have been key players in financial services for years. Financial institutions have automated routine tasks across fraud detection and prevention, loan application processing, and customer service, to name just a few. But the pace and breadth of adoption will only increase. In the lending market, automated underwriting can be a game-changer.

Here's how Apple's upcoming Privacy Manifest enforcement, starting May 1, 2024, will change the way app developers handle privacy. Learn the details of the new requirements, from creating privacy manifest files to meeting crucial deadlines, to ensure your app meets Apple's stringent privacy standards.

Whether it’s the groceries you need from the store, the chores your mom left on the kitchen counter for when you got home from class, or even things to do before you die, lists are everywhere. Presenting data in a column (or a list) is the most familiar and natural way to organize information in both the analogue and digital worlds.

We are thrilled to announce the release of a new feature in N|Solid that includes sample heap profiling and heap objects observability for main processes and worker threads. N|Solid is known for its Node.js performance and security observability and diagnostic tools and best-in-class low overhead has completed a new innovation to hunt memory leaks in development and production environments. Memory is a precious resource in computing.

In this edition of our series dedicated to spotlighting the movers and shakers in the tech world, we're thrilled to welcome Michael Muinos, an experienced Software Engineer currently residing at Google who is also the founder of Algos With Michael. Through this conversation, we aim to dive deep into the experiences that have defined Michael's career, alongside exploring the challenges and triumphs encountered, we will also share advice for aspiring software engineering professionals in this piece.

Kong Mesh 2.7 is here! And with it come a slew of new features to make our simple and powerful enterprise service mesh even easier to use and more powerful for your particular needs. In this blog post, we'll cover the new features and show how Kong Mesh 2.7 can deliver a superior service mesh experience for your organization.