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The Evolution of APIs: From the Cloud Age and Beyond (Part 2)

In our last blog post, we traced the evolution of APIs in the cloud age. The cloud age introduced the idea of an “API economy” — or the business practice of organizations exposing their digital services or information through the controlled use of APIs. While the API economy looks attractive today, we believe it will become even stronger in the future.

Evolution of API Technologies: From the Cloud Age and Beyond

We live in a digital economy where Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are foundational elements for businesses to operate and grow. As rightly outlined by Gartner, APIs interconnect individual systems that contain data about people, businesses and things, enable transactions, and create new products/services and business models. The popularity of APIs has grown significantly in the last decade or so, but the history of APIs stretches back much further.

Continual Earns SOC 2 Type 2 Compliance

Following Continual achieving SOC 2 Type 1 compliance in January, we’re proud to announce we are now SOC 2 Type 2 compliant. This milestone demonstrates our ongoing commitment to helping our customers protect their data – and their customer’s data – as they build and grow their operational AI platforms. It’s a hard reality for many software projects that security is added late in their development cycle as their market viability becomes clear.

Optimize your cloud data cost: 4 steps to reduce cloud data platform cost before they control you

If you have managed a cloud data platform, you have undoubtedly gotten that call. You know the one, it's usually from finance or the office of the CFO, inquiring about your monthly spend. And it usually comes in one of two forms: While both are clear and present dangers to cloud data platform owners, they don’t have to be.

The Best Podcasts for CTOs in 2022: stay up-to-date with latest industry news.

In this day and age, it’s more important than ever for CTOs to stay up-to-date with the latest industry news. But with so much information out there, it can be tough to know where to start. That’s why we’ve compiled a list of the best podcasts for CTOs, so you can easily find the ones that will be most relevant to you and your interests! We’ve rounded up some of the best podcasts for CTOs, covering everything from the latest industry news to career advice.

What is an API Gateway?

An API gateway is a server that sits between your backend services and your users. It provides an abstraction layer that helps you manage the communication between clients and your services. API gateways are a single point of entry into a microservices application and they work like a reverse proxy: They receive API calls from clients, route them to the right microservices in the backend, and return aggregated responses to clients.