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The People Behind the Process: Software's Greatest Asset

Our new podcast, "The People Behind Your Favorite Apps," shines the spotlight on the developers, testers, and others who work tirelessly to bring amazing technologies to market. How they come up with solutions to big challenges, collaborate at scale, and deal with high-pressure deadlines and increased expectations from the business and customers alike.

API Design Is Communication: How to Build APIs People Will Love

In the digital world, application programming interfaces (APIs) are how we interact with our applications. API design is critical to creating a good user experience, and it must translate the capabilities of your applications into an interface that is both easy to use and understand. Therefore, API design is communication-focused, and this should be considered throughout the entire API development process.

Embedded iPaaS: Implementation types, features, pros and cons

The significance of embedded iPaaS has significantly risen in the past months. This can be easily seen by reviewing the search volume for the keyword “embedded iPaaS” – if in October 2019, for example, there were only a handful of queries for this term, by the first quarter of 2022, the search volume has increased by 1500%. Yes, you’re reading it right, this is not a typo – by one thousand five hundred percent.

Shifting Up: Achieving Progressive Delivery with both shift-left and shift-right approaches

There's a transformation happening in software development: Progressive Delivery. It lets you rapidly release updated apps while still maintaining quality and control. Better still, it can have a big impact on the job satisfaction and day-to-day experience of developers. At SmartBear, we're in a unique position with this change happening in the market. We have a range of tools that improve the quality of software development, aiding management, design, testing, and observability.

SOAP vs. REST: What's the Difference?

Numerous technologies underpin the web services we use daily. Web APIs are an essential component of the internet world. A web browser or a web server can use an API. When writing web code, developers must select the Web API that best fits the needs of their project. Web APIs come in a variety of forms. They enable two applications to communicate with one another using a set of rules.

Five Keys for Effective API Management

From banks and healthcare providers to retail enterprises and government agencies, application programming interfaces (APIs) live at the heart of many systems. They have become critical to drive digital initiatives and bring a host of benefits — such as the ability to use APIs created by others; compose enterprise capabilities as reusable units to create new sources of revenue; enable better interactions with customers, suppliers, and providers; and quickly respond to compliance requirements.

With Identity Management, Start Early for Less Tech Debt

First published on The New Stack. A problem starts to reveal itself. The team has finished a minimum viable product’s (MVP) business features, and user personally identifiable information (PII) has merged into the same domain as other core objects. Social logins bring their own attributes that need to be captured but don’t line up.

Adaptive authentication functions with WSO2 Identity Server

Adaptive authentication is an evolved form of MFA where the authentication mechanism is decided depending on the user’s risk profile and behavior. In this episode of #IdentityIn15, we are going to discuss with you about what is #adaptiveauthentication, sample adaptive authentication script, write a custom adaptive authentication function, and how to use adaptive authentication with the #WSO2identityserver.