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Mastering the API Lifecycle: Essential Stages & Proven Strategies for Success

What determines the success of an API? A significant part lies in mastering the API lifecycle—from planning to retiring, every step impacts your API’s performance and adoption. The API lifecycle involves several critical stages—planning, designing, developing, deploying, consuming, monitoring, and retiring. Each stage dictates the successful implementation of APIs, including governance models, transparency, and security being crucial throughout.

Navigating API Management's New Era: Kong's Incremental Buy-in Product Principle

In the rapidly evolving world of API management, the conversation around "the great unbundling of API management" has recently gained traction. This movement, highlighted by industry experts and analysts, including a recent Forbes article, reflects a shift towards a more componentized approach in API tooling offerings. Such an approach caters to the enterprise's specific needs, moving away from the traditional "does-it-all" solutions.

What is WebdriverIO? Unlock the Secrets of Automated Testing

Hey there! Ever wondered how the digital world consistently delivers sleek, bug-free websites and apps at the speed of light? Well, it’s not all caffeine-fueled coding marathons. A big hero behind the scenes is automated testing, and one of the champions in this arena is WebdriverIO. Let’s dive into this game-changer and see how it’s making the lives of developers, business owners, and pretty much everyone involved in web development a whole lot easier.

Mastering API Gatekeeping: A Guide to Efficiently Managing API Operations

Seeking to enhance your API operations? Delve into the world of API management, where securing, optimizing, and maximizing the potential of your API inventory becomes clear. Uncover the significance of API gateways, grasp the nuances of lifecycle management, and learn strategies to maintain uptime and performance. Ideal for those looking to tighten security, increase efficiency, or generate revenue through API management, these insights are designed to be practical and straightforward.

What is an API Gateway? A Complete Guide

An API’s main purpose is to allow multiple applications to communicate with one another. However, APIs can easily be made more secure and efficient through API gateways which provide a unified entry point across internal APIs. This unified entry point allows for greater control over user access and helps elevate API security measures like rate limiting while also applying security policies like OAuth or JWT. Plus, API gateways are extremely beneficial for securing microservices.

WSO2 API Manager: Leading the Way in API Management and Security

API management and API security are like two sides of a coin, intrinsically part of a greater whole. That is why the recent KuppingerCole report, “Leadership Compass: API Security and Management,” is particularly useful for organizations seeking to develop or update their API strategies. With the report’s comprehensive view of both API management and security, it offers an invaluable resource for understanding their interplay.

What's New in Kong Gateway 3.6

Kong Gateway 3.6 delivers a variety of new capabilities, enhanced UX and a brand new feature that we can't talk about yet. There are new Consumer Group capabilities, increased security when working with Hashicorp Vault or OpenID Connect, and there will even be a live demo of the brand new feature. Join Michael Heap (Sr Director of Developer Experience) and Veena Rajarathna (Staff Product Manager) as they walk you through what's new in the 3.6 release. You don’t want to miss this session!

Snowflake vs. Oracle: Which Data Warehouse is Better?

Snowflake and Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse are two cloud data warehouses that provide you with a Single Source Of Truth (SSOT) for all the data that exists in your organization. You can use either of these warehouses to run data through business intelligence (BI) tools and automate insights for decision-making. But which one should you add to your tech stack?