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For decades, businesses of all sizes have uncovered the value of application programming interfaces (APIs). However, it’s only in recent years that the implementation of APIs has exploded, often thanks to greater accessibility. From reducing costs to creating more interconnected experiences, the benefits of APIs for developers and business leaders are clear — but what are they, and how do they relate to something like JavaScript?

Direct database connectors or connections act as a middleperson between an app and a database, allowing the app to read, write, and alter data in the database without an API or other intermediary layer. While these connectors might be simpler to set up than creating and automating an API, making them valuable for database management, they pose several cybersecurity risks that could put your business at risk. Below, learn about these threats and how to mitigate them with an API management platform.

There are various approaches to hosting and managing your IT infrastructure, but it ultimately comes down to control. While on-premise setups involve keeping physical hardware and other infrastructure elements on-site, cloud computing provides computing resources in a virtualized environment, reducing maintenance tasks for your IT team. A third approach to IT hosting and management has increased in popularity in recent years.

As more businesses embrace digital transformation, many discover that they want a combination of on-premises and cloud computing strategies. Before you can choose a specific strategy that will serve your organization’s needs, it’s important to spend some time learning about the pros and cons of on-premises and cloud environment solutions. You might decide that it makes more sense to choose hybrid cloud strategies as the approach that offers the best of both technologies.

In day-to-day life, everything is driven by events. If the phone rings, you pick it up. If the timer on the oven pings, you switch it off. These are all examples of event-driven reactions, where the action is based on the conditions surrounding it. How does this relate to business IT systems? To begin to understand this, it helps to think of your company as a collection of events. Some of these events occur over and over, such as customer purchases or CRM data entry.

Deciding where to run your enterprise workloads is one of the biggest business decisions you’ll make. That’s because your chosen deployment model influences how you access software and systems, scale your business, and safeguard sensitive data. There are three main deployment methods you need to know about: Self-hosted, on-premises, and cloud. All three models have pros and cons, so it’s important to do your research before investing in new infrastructure and/or services.

You’ve heard of cloud computing and how businesses use it, but do you know about virtual public clouds? VPCs are designed to give users a private cloud experience on a public cloud. For many, this is the best of both worlds when it comes to cloud storage: you get the benefits of a private cloud with the resources available on the public cloud.

Today’s businesses need flexible technologies that let them adapt to emerging trends as quickly as possible. Many have embraced digital transformation as an adaptive strategy that can improve everything from DevOps to security. Virtual machines can also play critical roles in digital transformation and in making your organization’s technology more nimble.

Digital transformation has been a buzzword for quite some time, but the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for organizations to adopt digital solutions. As we enter a new year, it’s worth taking a closer look at the top digital transformation trends that will shape business strategies in 2023. We’ll explore six key trends that will help organizations stay ahead of the curve and achieve digital transformation success.

Now that we have explored monitoring apis with Prometheus, let’s take a look at monitoring our APIs with Grafana. You may have noticed from the previous blog that Prometheus is awesome, but takes some time to fully flesh out and their dashboards aren’t easy to read or very eye-catching. Luckily for us, Grafana specializes in data visualization. We won’t even have to configure all our Prometheus queries, so let’s get started.