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What Are Microservices? What You Need to Know

Microservices are small, independently-running applications that perform a single function for a larger application or IT infrastructure. By loosely connecting a number of them together, developers create a pluggable architecture that facilitates the process of updating, upgrading, and scaling the application in response to changing requirements.

API Trends: From Monolithic to Microservices

A lot has happened in the world of APIs management taking us from Monolithic methods to Microservices. From the agile method to the Internet of Things, software development is full of hot trends. They promise to revolutionize the tech industry for years to come. Some of these trends are truly revolutionary, while others are simply a flash in the pan. Software developers’ tend to chase after shiny objects.

iPaaS Pros & Cons: The Benefits and Challenges of Integration Platform as a Service

With the explosion of cloud services, microservices – and the increasing demands of digital transformation – enterprises are adding and removing business applications at a breakneck pace. Most large businesses are juggling an average of 788 custom business applications, and the number is growing.

iPaaS Use Cases: How Enterprises Are Using Integration Platform as a Service Technology

iPaaS (Integration Platform as a Service) technology is a powerful, easy-to-use solution for managing, governing, and integrating cloud-based applications and services. Beyond this simple definition, however, the term “iPaaS” can mean a lot of different things – depending on how your organization deploys it. To help you understand the full length and breadth of this technology, we’ve compiled this complete list of iPaaS use cases.

iPaaS Benefits: 8 Reasons Why Businesses Are Flocking to Integration Platform as a Service

Modern enterprises require a host of applications to manage their bookkeeping, inventory, marketing, and more. Finding powerful applications to cover these needs isn’t very difficult, but building the integrations that synchronize data between these solutions can be costly and labor-intensive while requiring enormous amounts of technical expertise. This is where Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) technology can help.

ESB and API Management: Which One and Why?

With new systems, applications, and data sources added on a regular basis, IT environments are growing more complex than ever before. To deal with this complexity, organizations are relying on API management solutions that make their environments more tightly connected, facilitating information exchange. It’s no surprise, then, that the API management industry has never been stronger.

What is iPaaS? Definition and Benefits

These days organizations commonly rely upon dozens of databases, applications, and third-party services for powering critical business infrastructure such as web and mobile applications, business analytics, and customer outreach initiatives. Examples of such indispensable technologies include Microsoft SQL Server, Salesforce, and Intercom.

Data Warehouse or Data Lake?

There are essentially two paths to strategic data storage. The path you choose before you bring in the data will determine what’s possible in your future. Although your company’s objectives and resources will normally suggest the most reasonable path, it’s important to establish a good working knowledge of both paths now, especially as new technologies and capabilities gains wider acceptance.

Convert Excel to JSON Using DreamFactory

If Benjamin Franklin were alive today, some of his his famous words would have instead read, “Nothing is certain but death and taxes and Excel“. Microsoft’s ubiquitous spreadsheet application is as firmly embedded within the corporate world as TPS reports and the reek of a poorly chosen microwavable lunch (I swear it wasn’t fish).