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4 Excellent API Tools That Will Improve Your Integrations

Mar 9, 2021 By Tony Harris In DreamFactory
Developers need excellent API tools that help them improve the quality of integrations and at the same time, reduce the time required to develop these integrations. Ideally, API tools should reduce the risk of integration and performance issues when developing new applications and should provide an effective means of accessing data that is often locked up in a variety of organisational databases.
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Creating Read Only APIs with DreamFactory

Mar 8, 2021 By DreamFactory In DreamFactory
As a best practice, you should take care to provide clients with the minimal API access privileges required to successfully complete their tasks. DreamFactory's role based access control manager ensures administrators never leave your data sources unnecessarily vulnerable, offering a point-and-click interface for quickly defining and reviewing privileges. In this video we'll walk through the configuration of a role-based access control, demonstrating how a client's API access privileges can be easily updated so as to allow only read access to a select set of API endpoints.
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DreamFactory 4.5.2 - New Snowflake, Hadoop, and Hive Connectors

Mar 4, 2021 By Jason Gilmore In DreamFactory
DreamFactory 4.5.2 has been released with improvements to our recently added Snowflake connector. In addition to Snowflake, version 4.5.0 introduced connectors for Apache Hive and Hadoop HDFS. All three were added by request of our customers, and we’re happy to see these new capabilities already being deployed into test environments.
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SOAP vs REST: What's The Difference?

Mar 3, 2021 By Tony Harris In DreamFactory
Developers, engineers, and anyone else looking to streamline development and decrease build times for integrations rely on APIs (application programming interface) to enable applications and databases to communicate. This inevitably leads to a comparison between SOAP and REST APIs, since they are two of the most common API paradigms. It can be quite difficult to understand where SOAP and REST methods are best suited, what their specific differences are and why developers prefer one method over the other.
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Comprehensive API Management Platforms: Who Has The Most Features?

Mar 2, 2021 By Tony Harris In DreamFactory
Developers often create many small API tools that can improve functionality, creation, tests, and management. For many organizations though, a comprehensive API management platform that consolidates many features into a single, unified solution presents an attractive alternative. If you don’t want to bother with managing a suite of small, disparate tools, you could be interested in understanding more about the following API platforms that provide an exhaustive set of features.
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Do I Need an API Led Strategy?

Mar 2, 2021 By Tony Harris In DreamFactory
Whether or not you plan for it, APIs are becoming a critical aspect of your business’s functionality. The Wall Street Journal reports that 10 percent of businesses already use more than 200 apps. You cannot stop your employees from adopting apps that help them do their jobs. Instead, you should lead them by developing a digital strategy that helps monitor KPIs, reviews API adoption, and follows a planned roadmap to reach business goals.
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Composable Enterprise: The New Business Architecture

Feb 23, 2021 By Tony Harris In DreamFactory
With all the emphasis on the ‘why’ of digital transformation, there’s little clarity of what the end result should look like. And that’s on purpose, because transformation goals are different for each organization and a cookie-cutter model of successful businesses would only stifle innovation. But if there’s one term to describe the end-state of a digitally transformed business, it would be ‘composable enterprise’.
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Microsoft Azure API Management vs. 3scale: Find the Right API Solution for You

Feb 23, 2021 By Tony Harris In DreamFactory
Today’s businesses often rely on hundreds of digital assets, including legacy systems and new applications that streamline their processes. However, you can’t rely on your SaaS apps, microservices, and systems to integrate themselves. Instead, you need an API solution built for full lifecycle API management. Microsoft Azure API Management and 3scale get a lot of positive reviews from users.
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Tyk or Akana: Which Has the Right API Management Tools to Match Your Needs?

Feb 22, 2021 By Tony Harris In DreamFactory
Whether you work for a startup or a giant corporation, your organization likely needs a reliable API management solution that helps all of your SaaS apps communicate with each other. The following article compares Tyk and Akana to help you decide whether one of them could meet your needs.
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