Kong is a popular open-source API gateway to help manage your APIs. With Kong, you can handle authentication, rate limiting, data transformation, among other things from a centralized location even though you have multiple microservices. Kong is built on NGINX at it’s core, one of the most popular HTTP servers. Being open-source, Kong is very easy to deploy on-premises usually in just a few minutes without requiring the installation of many components other than a Postgres or Cassandra store.

Ep. 6: Nick Patrick, CEO of Radar On today’s episode we have Nick Patrick, the CEO of API-first location platform company Radar. Nick cut his teeth in PM roles at Microsoft, Foursquare and Handy, before starting Radar in 2016. As cofounder and leader of Radar, Nick shares his experience on how to fuel growth, choose your partners, ship products faster & with confidence, and many more invaluable perspectives for professionals in the API platform ecosystem.

Ep. 5: Charles Miller, documentation strategist. To help you fend off documentation from being the Achillies heel of your API product, we have a thirty-year veteran of technical writing on our podcast today. Charles Miller is currently the lead content strategist for APIs at Medidata Solutions, a Dassault Systems company.

Envoy is a high-performance C++ distributed proxy designed for microservices and service-oriented architecture, as well as a scalable communication bus and “universal data plane” designed for large scale service meshes. Envoy runs alongside every application and abstracts the network by providing common features in a platform-agnostic manner.

In this guide you’ll learn how to send Moesif behavioral emails with Sendgrid. Moesif behavioral emails is a feature that automatically sends emails to customers based on their API usage. This can be used to notify customers about technical issues, such as hitting rate limits, using deprecated APIs, or broken integrations. You can even use it to trigger business-related events such as when an item is shipped. If something can be mapped to an API call, then you can send an email from it.

Ep. 4: Mike Amundsen, author and speaker Joining us this week we have the well known author and speaker Mike Amundsen. He’s a prolific writer on all things APIs and recently released his latest book entitled Design and Build Great Web APIs: Robust, Reliable, and Resilient. When he’s not writing, Mike helps companies capitalize on opportunities in APIs, Microservices, and Digital Transformation.

In this guide you’ll learn how to send Moesif behavioral emails with Mailgun. Moesif behavioral emails is a service that sends emails to customers based on their requests to your API. These emails can be used to notify users about technical issues, such as API limits or broken integrations, as well as business-related events such as how many items you’ve shipped. If something can be mapped to an API call, then you can send an email on it.

API Observability is a key component to properly execute APIOps Cycles and ensure your building something of value for your API users. If you’re not familiar with APIOps Cycles, take a look at this guide which provides an agile framework to quickly build APIs that are business-oriented and serve customer needs. API Observability itself is an evolution of traditional monitoring and born out of control systems theory.

We’re very pleased to have Kin Lane, the Chief Evangelist of Postman, joining us today. He has spent the last decade helping organizations think through their API lifecycles and how to optimize their business processes. He continues to be a prolific writer on his famous blog site, the API Evangelist. Kin shares his perspectives on API governance, guidelines for deprecating & versioning, and interesting implementations he’s see with Postman Collections, amongst many others.

Joining us today are two senior executives from Okta, the Identity and Access Management Service, that you’re probably already using given all of the work from home stuff going on. In a rolling discussion we cover product manager and DevEx best practices, including: making developers successful through compassion & not just empathy, how to end of life an API, why storytelling’s important across the whole company, what the different roles are in the DevEx universe, and many more.