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The Essentials of API Development: A Comprehensive Guide

Navigating API development is essential for creating seamless software interactions. This guide strips back the complexity, offering a clear pathway through the intricacies of API creation, from brass-tacks design principles to advanced security and documentation. Among the APIs we’ll explore for their role in simplifying software interactions is the REST API. This model emphasizes functions like GET, PUT, and DELETE to interact with server data efficiently and statelessly.

Not All MFA is Created Equal, Especially in CIAM

In many industries (finance and healthcare, to name a couple), regulations require the use of multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect access to sensitive data and transactions. Also, an important executive order was issued, aimed at improving the cybersecurity posture within the US government by requiring all federal agencies to adopt MFA systems. Regulations and standards like these will continue to spread over more industries and transaction types.

Reliably syncing database and frontend state: A realtime competitor analysis

Ably’s LiveSync product is now available as a public alpha release. LiveSync allows you to automatically keep data in sync across servers and clients, in realtime. This is a hard distributed systems problem. In this post, we’re going to have a look at four existing solutions to realtime data synchronization, the different technical designs, and the tradeoffs they make.

Implementing iOS Universal Links for Enhanced App-Web Navigation

Universal Links are an iOS feature allowing seamless integration between web content and native iOS apps. With iOS Universal Links we can intelligently configure a specific web URL, associating it with our iOS app so it will open directly when the URL is clicked.

Analyzing AWS Audit Logs in Real Time Using Confluent Cloud and Amazon EventBridge

Last year, we introduced the Connect with Confluent partner program, enabling our technology partners to develop native integrations with Confluent Cloud. This gives our customers access to Confluent data streams from within their favorite applications and allows them to extract maximum value from their data.

Graph API: Boost Your Data Skills

In today's data-driven world, the ability to seamlessly connect, manage, and manipulate vast amounts of data is paramount for businesses and developers alike. Graph API stands at the forefront of this technological frontier, offering robust tools that facilitate complex data interactions within applications. This powerful API provides a framework for accessing and integrating data points in an intuitive and effective manner, supporting dynamic data structures across various platforms.

Everything you've wanted to ask about Event-Driven Architectures | The Duchess & The Doctor Show

For their inaugural episode, Anna McDonald (the Duchess), Matthias J. Sax (the Doctor), and their extinct friend, Phil, wax rhapsodic about all things eventing: you’ll learn why events are a mindset, why the Duchess thinks you’ll find event immutability relaxing, and why your event streams might need some windows. The Duchess & The Doctor Show features a question-driven format that delivers substantial, yet easily comprehensible answers to user-submitted questions on all things events and eventing, including Apache Kafka, its ecosystem, and beyond!