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Choosing an API technology: gRPC, REST, GraphQL

How do you choose an API style and API technology when you start a new project? Today, if you look at API technology research such as RapidAPI Developer Survey and Insights, you’ll probably conclude that REST is the dominant force in the API landscape. While REST is certainly well-known to most developers and used in a lot of production environments, it may not be the best fit for every scenario.

API Strategy Fundamentals: Integrate The Technology

According to Deloitte, 96% of organizations are using APIs in 2021, representing a 16% increase from just last year. The value of APIs for modern-day organizations is hardly questioned, with Deloitte pointing out that they represent “a strategic enabler in modern enterprises to build up connected experiences and unlock value from existing data.” Is you business considering how API strategy fundamentals like technology integration can support your long term goals?

Adopting a Product Mindset when Developing your API Ecosystem

As your organization undergoes major digital transformations and starts adopting new technologies, it’s critical to evaluate how you’re currently looking at your technology assets. Do you see them as differentiated business capabilities? Adopting a product mindset with developing your API ecosystem becomes simpler when you can shift your focus away from the technical implementation process and its challenges and start focusing on your strategy and its relevant business outcomes.

Securing a Multitenant Database API with DreamFactory

SaaS applications generally tend to manage customer data in a multitenant database, meaning all customers share the same database. The data is secured, or segmented, by a unique identifier that maps a particular table record to a customer. This approach to data management means the SaaS can avoid the overhead and complexity of managing customer data within separate databases. Increasingly, SaaS customers are asking for API-based access to their data.

July Germany Meetup - Service integration made easy with Kuma

As we can see, there’s a lot of network communication involved and it must occur in a secure, reliable, and comprehensible way. Since efficiency and agility are critical factors nowadays, we need new, modern approaches, which allow development teams to act autonomously while being able to focus on the important things at the same time. A service mesh like #Kuma can help you to address these challenges in the area of security, connectivity, and observability transparently by moving the responsibility from the application to the infrastructure layer.

Online Meetup: Kong Gateway 2.5 Release

In this session, we get you up-to-speed on the Kong Gateway 2.5 release with a summary of the features and news, including: Kong’s Online Meetups are a place to learn about technologies within the Kong #opensource ecosystem. This interactive forum will give you the chance to ask our engineers questions and get ramped up on information relevant to your #Kong journey.