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API Development Best Practices

API (Application Programming Interface) development is a rapidly widening field. Every piece of software you may use will involve an API, and the number of jobs for API developers skyrockets every year. Unfortunately, poorly developed APIs can create difficulty and security concerns for users. What are some API development best practices you can put into place to prevent those outcomes? Here’s the key things to know about API development best practices.

Unlocking Success with Kong Mesh 2.4 with Security, Resilience, and Flexibility

In the ever-evolving landscape of digital business operations, staying ahead of the curve requires constant adaptation and innovation. Kong Mesh 2.4 contains several enhancements to help your organization’s infrastructure be more efficient. In this blog post, we’ll explore the key benefits of Kong Mesh 2.4 across three critical domains: security, resilience, and flexibility.

Behavioral Authentication: Improving Security and CX Without Compromise #WordsUnplugged

In this episode of #WordsUnplugged, Seshika Fernando, VP of Banking and Financial Services at WSO2 and Asanka Abeysinghe, CTO of WSO2, explore the possibilities of using digital doubles and behavioral authentication to bridge the gap between banking experiences and those from more famous service providers like Amazon and Netflix. Join these two experts as they explain how these concepts may be used to ultimately create smoother, more secure banking experiences for everyone involved!

Service Mesh vs. API Gateway | Understanding Key Differences

In the realm of microservices orchestration, the question of choosing between a service mesh vs. API gateway often arises. These two components play vital roles in managing communication within distributed systems. In this discussion, we’ll explore the differences between a service mesh and an API gateway, shedding light on their individual purposes and capabilities.

API Mocking with Katalon

API testing is easier said than done. When trying to do API testing we often find ourselves in the land of “what-ifs”—what if the third-party services we rely on are down? What if the APIs we need are still under construction? The solution, a Mock API. While this is a powerful approach, to unleash its full potential it is important to implement it correctly. That’s where Katalon steps in.

Build with Confidence: Beta API Specs Available Now

Few things are more frustrating than encountering a product with either no documentation or worse: documentation that leads you astray. When it comes to developing APIs, schemas typically define how requests and responses are formatted and guide how clients and services exchange data. Commonly, schemas aren’t used to generate documentation or software development kits (SDKs), allowing them to become stale and inaccurate.

What Is API As A Service? -Microservices & Digital Transformation

API as a Service (APIaaS) streamlines the creation and management of APIs in a cloud-based environment. If your enterprise is planning a digital transformation strategy or in the process of migrating to the cloud, you’ve probably heard the terms “microservices” and “APIs.” However, as common as these words are, few people actually understand them unless they’re working as developers. To clear the confusion once and for all, we wrote this guide.

Kong Konnect Runtime Instance and Konnect-KIC AWS EKS Terraform Blueprints AddOns

With our AWS partnership, we jointly created two Kong Konnect AWS EKS Terraform Blueprints AddOns — eks-blueprint-konnect-runtime-instance and eks-blueprint-konnect-kic — to help bootstrap your Kong Konnect instances on EKS. In this post, we’ll discuss what AWS EKS Blueprints AddOns for Terraform are and their benefits, plus we’ll demo the Kong Konnect AddOns we’ve built out.