Plan to scaleWhen planning for scale, every tool out there has individual capacity limits. Many can scale horizontally, and many scale vertically, but ALL of them cost time, money, or both to scale. Unbounded scaling is just not available for free. Even if the products in use attract no licenses fees, there are always costs:…
Category: For App Developers
How-to: OpenID Connect Authentication for OAuth
As we know by now, the OAuth 2.0 protocol was built for authorization, not authentication. It excels at delegated authorization. Log in with Google? Sure. The OAuth protected API endpoint never sees your Google username and password. It doesn’t need to know who you are. In fact, like a discreet bouncer at an exclusive club,…
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…
Microservice Architecture: Aligning Principles, Practices & Culture
Irakli Nadareishvili, Ronnie Mitra, Matt McLarty & Mike Amundsen Design and apply microservices to embrace continual change in the digital economy Microservice architecture is helping organizations embrace continual change. But how do you design and apply microservices effectively? This book from O’Reilly, written by API Academy experts, provides comprehensive guidance through eight chapters that take a deep dive into:…
How Can You Prove Your Digital You is You?
George Bernard Shaw was witty and fun. He was famous for being quotable – very much like Oscar Wilde. One of the quotes I love, and I thought was perfect for this blog: “The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.” In the real world, communication is an illusion. People talk but they don’t listen. …
A Design-based Approach to Microservices and APIs
Keynote talk from API World 2018 in San Jose, California Organizations around the world are transforming their core applications to expose microservices through APIs. The success of these efforts will depend less on the technologies themselves, and more on how well their deployment is aligned with the business goals of the organization. Join this session…
The Microservice Design Canvas
Learn how to apply a more traditional business canvas when designing microservices Microservices often have organic origins, emerging from the bubbling cauldron of existing monolithic applications to fill an immediate need. Given the desire for improved delivery speed that drive the adoption of microservices, developers often take a “code first, ask questions later” approach and…
Webinar: How to Generate Real Business Value with Microservices
Overview The Microservices movement has caught fire in enterprise IT. Companies of all sizes are investigating how they can emulate the successes and characteristics of companies like Netflix, Amazon and Gilt. While much of the discussion around Microservices focuses on technological aspects such as containerization and automation, there is also business strategy to consider. View this…
A Microservices Primer
The technical definition is….microservices are design patterns to turn complex applications into simple, fine-grained, reusable, and interoperable processes that can be modified and deployed independently of each other. Ok, a bit heavy…so let’s translate that, using some mental visuals. Imagine you’re 30 years in the future and you have a great family home, Jetson’s style…
Implementing Microservices
I recently wrote about what microservices were, and why they are becoming so important. In this discussion, we’ll talk about implementing microservices, as well as touch on APIs and API Management – turns out they are crucial to a microservice architecture. Just a quick note – while you may see microservice and microservice architecture used…