An application programming interface (API) defines a set of rules and protocols that allow different software entities to communicate with one another. Open or public APIs offer free access to everyone with little or no restrictions. These public APIs allow developers to build innovative solutions and extend existing ones covering a variety of use cases. In this article, we cover some of the best open APIs from different categories.

Quality Assurance (QA) teams must run extensive tests to ensure that a website or application performs as intended before release. However, rather than manually running these tests, which can hinder productivity, modern teams are using QA automation. By automating QA testing workflows, teams can rapidly execute these tests using standardized processes, frameworks, and software. Developers can quickly fix any errors and deliver high-quality code so that product teams can speed up release times.

Our new and improved feature provides robust metadata to improve visibility, streamline compliance and monitor spending.

Bike-Taxi Apps: Hailing as the powerful giant who emerged to take control, take charge, and change the commutation landscape! But are you aware of the rising popularity of bike taxi app development? According to GlobeNewswire, the market for online taxi services will increase from $34.82 billion in 2022 to $38.54 billion in 2023, growing at a 10.7% CAGR. Actually, we are talking about way ahead of 2023.

We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Kong Gateway Open Source (OSS) 3.7. This latest version features cutting-edge AI Gateway updates with new streaming plugins, as well as performance and security improvements. Let’s dive into the enhancements and explore the tangible benefits that these features bring to your organization.

The payments industry is evolving rapidly, fueled by technological advancements, changing consumer behaviors, and a growing appetite for real-time transactions. As this transformation unfolds, new standards have been introduced to ensure the payments ecosystem's safety, security, and efficiency.

For data engineers, the Generative AI (Gen AI) era is a transformative shift in how we approach data architecture and analytics. Professionals at the forefront of this shift will be gathering in San Francisco, at the Data+AI Summit June 10-13. Attendees will be exploring tools that integrate with Databricks Intelligent Data Platform that decrease data management costs and improve data's impact on business outcomes.

Apache Kafka has become the de facto standard for data streaming, used by organizations everywhere to anchor event-driven architectures and power mission-critical real-time applications. However, this rise has also sparked discussions on improving Kafka operations and cost-efficiency—streaming data is naturally prone to bursts and often unpredictable, resulting in inevitable variations in workloads and demand on your Kafka cluster(s).