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By Nic Davidson
Picture this: a customer reaches out with a seemingly simple request—convert a date field to a different format in their API responses. The catch? They only have read-only access to their database, which means no schema updates, no new columns, just pure data transformation. This intriguing challenge led us down the rabbit hole to rediscover one of DreamFactory's most powerful yet underutilized features: enhancing API calls with SQL functions.
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By Jeremy H
The difference between stateful and stateless applications is essential when developing APIs. However, if you’re not a developer who’s working with stateful and stateless systems, you might not fully understand these concepts. More importantly, you may not know why stateless REST APIs are so essential to building scalable web applications? Here are the key takeaways to know about stateful vs. stateless apps.
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By Spencer Nguyen
System administrators, DBAs, and application developers all know about the need for data integration. That’s when you have to pull data from one database, application, or web service to another. Fortunately, this task is a lot less challenging than it used to be because APIs (application programming interfaces) are so popular today. APIs provide a standard way to share the data and services of one system with another, even if the two systems are otherwise incompatible.
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By Spencer Nguyen
As a seasoned content moderator with a keen eye for detail and a passion for upholding the highest standards of quality and integrity in all of their work, Spencer Nguyen brings a professional yet empathetic approach to every task.
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By Jeremy H
Some of the most innovative and profitable microservices architecture examples among enterprise companies in the world — like Amazon, Netflix, Uber, and Etsy — attribute their IT initiatives’ enormous success in part to the adoption of microservices. Over time these enterprises dismantled their monolithic applications. They then refactored them into microservices-based architectures to quickly achieve scaling advantages, greater business agility, and unimaginable profits.
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By Kevin McGahey
Storing information in a relational database and sharing it via a RESTful API is a very common scenario these days. Depending on your RDBMS (relational database management system), this may take a lot of development effort. One solution that attempts to simplify the process is the PostgREST web server add-on for PostgreSQL. If your organization uses the PostgreSQL database, PostgREST quickly adds basic CRUD (create, read, update, delete) functions in an easy-to-use RESTful HTTP interface.
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By Jeremy H
Whether you’re working in the marketing department or the operations department, you’ve probably heard a lot about APIs and API integrations. API integration is the process of connecting different software systems or applications through their respective APIs to enable them to communicate and share data seamlessly. These have become the “buzz” terms of IT departments in recent years as more enterprises embrace the trend toward digital transformation.
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By Jeremy H
Modern application development and IT infrastructure depend heavily on the use of APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) and API Management. APIs offer a standard set of rules for systems and applications to connect and interact. Whether you are integrating a new application into an IT infrastructure or connecting the modular components of a microservices-based application, APIs are one of the fastest and most cost-effective ways to establish those connections.
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By Terence Bennett
Interoperability is one of the main reasons to reverse engineer APIs. Unlike a few decades ago, when software could exist in isolation, nowadays, a program runs on a complicated operating system and involves communication with several libraries created by different people. Reverse engineering APIs for interoperability involves API integration and learning new ways in which programs can exchange and use information.
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By Spencer Nguyen
DreamFactory's custom SQL endpoints let you create APIs that are tailored to your exact needs, making your data more flexible and powerful. In this article, we will show you how to set up these endpoints, provide practical examples, and explain how to connect endpoints to your external systems.
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By DreamFactory
In this video, we do a quick walkthrough of the DreamFactory platform and demonstrate how easy it is to generate a fully documented, secure Snowflake REST API.
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By DreamFactory
In this video, we do a quick walkthrough of the DreamFactory platform and demonstrate how easy it is to generate a fully documented, secure SQL Server REST API.
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By DreamFactory
DreamFactory excels at creating fully documented, secure REST APIs for any data source. In this video, we walk through just how simple it is to create a SQL Server API.
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By DreamFactory
This video walks through the significant changes and improvements introduced in our platform's latest DreamFactory UI update. The update is designed to enhance user experience, improve usability, and provide a fresh and modern look and feel.
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By DreamFactory
Check out this replay from API World 2023 featuring Terence Bennett, CEO of DreamFactory, diving into the disruptive world of API generation. In this session, Terence will guide you through the ins and outs of efficient API generation.
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By DreamFactory
This video will show you how simple it is to set up a Microsoft SQL server using DreamFactory. Who we are: DreamFactory is an API generation solution for more than 20 databases and many other data sources. With DreamFactory you can connect to any data source and instantly access a full-featured, secure, and documented REST API for your projects. DreamFactory replaces months of API development and server-side integration work. Start your projects with reliable REST APIs from day one.
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By DreamFactory
It shouldn't be difficult to create a REST API for your data sources. DreamFactory allows you to save months of manual coding and lets you connect your data sources quickly!
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By DreamFactory
DreamFactory lets you create fully documented and secure REST APIs for any data source in a matter of minutes.
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By DreamFactory
DreamFactory is a leading on-prem API generation and management platform built for data teams and backend developers to securely connect self-hosted and legacy systems and make them universally accessible. With DreamFactory, developers can connect nearly any database or data source with secure, compliant REST APIs in minutes instead of days.
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By DreamFactory
This video will demonstrate how to quickly install DreamFactory on Ubuntu using the DreamFactory automated installer.
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By DreamFactory
Containers and microservices are redefining the software development lifecycle. Developers are empowered to choose best of the breed languages, frameworks, and runtimes to develop software. DevOps teams are dealing with new packaging and deployment mechanisms. Container orchestration tools such as Docker Swarm, Kubernetes, Apache Mesos are changing the way applications are deployed and managed.
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By DreamFactory
The exploding complexity of backend interfaces is a real problem for companies building mobile and web applications or just using REST API services.
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By DreamFactory
Large enterprise and government organizations often inquire about how the DreamFactory REST API platform helps secure data access. Especially now that a growing number of web and mobile apps need to access sensitive data, and proper controls are imperative in the services used to access that data from an expanding number of apps.
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By DreamFactory
DreamFactory is a configurable LAMP stack running PHP. As far as the server is concerned, DreamFactory looks like a website written in WordPress or Drupal. Instead of delivering HTML pages, DreamFactory provides JSON documents, but otherwise, the scaling requirements are similar.
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By DreamFactory
Serverless Computing is considered to be the fourth wave of computing where x86 servers, virtual machines, and containers represented the first three generations. With this new paradigm, developers can squarely focus on the code and without the need to deal with the underlying infrastructure. They never have to plan the number of servers, amount of storage, and the network topology of deployments. Since the platform deals with one function at a time, and functions are the fundamental deployment units, this model is often called Functions as a Service (FaaS).
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Never Build an API Again. An enterprise-grade API as a service platform available in the cloud or on-premise. Generate database APIs instantly to build applications faster.
Integrate any SQL or NoSQL database, file storage system, or external HTTP or SOAP service and DreamFactory instantly generates a flexible, comprehensive, and fully documented REST API endpoint that’s ready to use. Focus on building your applications, not hand-coding APIs for every new development project.
Benefits:
- Instant APIs without code. Eliminate the biggest bottleneck in modern IT. Launch your project in weeks rather than months. DreamFactory instantly creates a secure, standardized, reusable, fully documented, and live REST API.
- Manage your data portfolio. Connect Salesforce to SQL Server, or your ERP to AWS S3. Transform and mask data along the way. Create reports, analytics, and alerts. Empower teams to retrieve and distribute data on demand.
- Secure your data with layered controls. Secure every API endpoint with Role-Based Access Controls, SSO Authentication, JWT, CORS, OAuth, and Active Directory. Deploy behind firewalls and in air-gapped environments.
- Modernize legacy applications. Integrate legacy technology into cutting-edge applications, extending technology lifecycles and derisking legacy system replacements.
REST API Automation and API Management made simple.