Anyone building APIs should know how well they perform. Without a view into your API reliability, you’ll be gambling that everything works as expected. API consumers—internal collaborators, partners, or other external developers—will discover if your API breaks and let you know about it. Continuous Monitoring can help you uncover these issues proactively. Developers that use…
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Securing the Digital Record
Recently, I was chatting with a group of colleagues – we were all complaining about doctors and waiting rooms, etc. During the conversation, I mentioned something that I thought was pretty interesting. Being over 40 and blonde hair/blue eyed, AND having spent my teens and 20s soaking up the sun, I’m basically putting my dermatologist’s children through…
Two Questions Behind Your API Strategy
Over the last 10 years, APIs have become the de facto tool of modern software development. “Let’s build an API for that,” is a natural reaction to a technical problem. While APIs play a key role, many engineering organizations are now overflowing with non-strategic services. Developer confusion might have been limited if those groups had…
The Challenging Times of Delivering on OpenBanking, Part 2
In Part 1 of this 2 part series, I discussed the challenges of the open sharing of data, and consent management model. Now I’ll wrap it up with the need for a common authentication model, shareability, and we’ll start with the most important part – who’s paying for this? Banks have to foot the billThe…
A Substantive and Educational API Management User Group Gathering
On Tuesday December 3rd, the first Layer7 Enable U API Management User Group gathering was held at the Lloyd Hotel in Amsterdam. The User Group, organised by Dutch integration specialist Enable U in collaboration with Broadcom, was set up to share knowledge, and exchange ideas and experiences regarding API Management.
Denial of Service Attacks on The Rise!
Current industry reports for 2019 regarding Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks indicate a 776% increase for loads between 100 Gbps and 400 Gbps*. As the demand rises for companies to expose more API’s to the public, it becomes much more important to be able to quickly respond to cybercrime threats and changing tactics. We…
API World 2019: Event Recap
For the last eight years, API practitioners and vendors have descended on San Jose, right down the road from the Broadcom headquarters, for the annual API World conference. This year, the Layer7 API Management team was joined at the show by our colleagues from Continuous Testing and AIOps to talk about full lifecycle API Management….
5 Pillars of API Management
API Academy Manage security and performance risks created by opening enterprise systems via APIs Traditional enterprise are blurring, as organizations open their on-premise data and application functionality for use in new internal and external applications. APIs form the foundation of this open enterprise, allowing enterprises to reuse their existing information assets across organizational boundaries. To…
Choosing the Right API Management Solution for the Enterprise User
API Academy Address key functional and operational characteristics of an effective API Management solution This white paper examines the different functional and operational requirements for an enterprise-level API Management solution. In doing so, it gives IT managers, Web managers and enterprise architects key information for selecting an API Management solution. The API is undergoing a…
5 Ways to Get Top Mobile App Developer Talent for Your Open APIs
API Academy Grow an ecosystem of visionary developers creating cutting-edge apps Opening APIs to developers outside your organization can enable the creation of mobile apps that add value to your products and information assets in innovative and often unexpected ways – without you having to invest directly in app development. However, this will only happen…