Most people in the industrialized world are connected to the internet in one way or another. They may not access the internet directly, but their PI and PII are captured through various interactions with other people and government/private entities.
How can you innovate quickly with APIs? Most companies are already implementing them, and some have success stories to share.
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.
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.
