Over the years the DreamFactory team has collaborated on a lot of really interesting API-oriented projects. Many of these projects involve integrating the DreamFactory platform into a much larger technology ecosystem. To put this into perspective, although our client base ranges widely in terms of both industry and company size, we often work with organizations tending towards the larger end of the scale.

If the elements of digital transformation weren’t a priority for organizations before COVID-19, they’re at the top of the agenda now. According to Statistica, post-COVID digital transformation spending has skyrocketed in 2020 with an expected 10.4% increase by the end of the year. As the pandemic continues, businesses are facing remote team challenges and pressure to increase operational efficiency. Therefore, the trend toward digital transformation is likely to continue.

In today’s post, we’re focusing on digital transformation trends for 2021 with a special emphasis on app development. Despite the difficulties we’ve experienced in 2020, it’s clear that the coronavirus has dramatically accelerated the pace of digital transformation.

We software developers have been hitting on all cylinders lately. I mean, this industry is hot. If coders were singers we’d be Adele hitting the high notes in Madison Square Garden (you know, back when concerts were a thing).We’d be AH-nold sniffing out the bad guys in Commando. John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever.

A webhook provides a decoupled means for an application to provide real-time updates to other applications. A great example of webhook integration is Slack, which can automate the publication of messages to channels and users. Configured inside the Slack administration panel, a Slack webhook is identified by a unique URL, such as https://hooks.slack.com/services/12345/qwert/.

We’re taking a closer look Container-Based Systems. The rise of the microservices-based applications has allowed global enterprises – like Amazon.com, Netflix, Uber, and Airbnb – to achieve unprecedented market dominance. Central to making these microservices-based applications possible is the concept of containerization, and at the core of containerization are Docker and Kubernetes – the two most widespread solutions for building and managing container-based applications.

There is no debate that the advent of OAuth 2.0 made the lives of developers everywhere better. OAuth 2.0 makes adding an authentication system to your app or web page became considerably easy. Many different service providers support the OAuth 2.0 spec and, in turn, so does DreamFactory. Below are the supported OAuth services DreamFactory which are supported natively.

As a follow up to our previous blog post about retrieving related data from that REST API, I wanted to dive deeper into the power of the “related records” feature of DreamFactory’s database-backed APIs. One of the powerful features of SQL databases is the ability to relate separate data records and perform queries that retrieve that related data all at once. One problem is that this requires a fairly in-depth knowledge of your database, it’s schema, and SQL syntax.

The DreamFactory team has relied on the Laravel framework for more than five years now, starting with the initial release of our namesake API management platform having been built atop Laravel 5.0.

REST Is the default setting for most developers! At least 83% of APIs use REST, while another 15% use SOAP. DreamFactory is a REST API management platform, making it easy for you to create RESTful applications. We can instantly build a secure, live REST API on top of your current SOAP solution! We want to help you get on the best track with your REST API endeavor! Here are our top resources below.