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In the second of a three-part webcast series co-hosted by CA API Management, IDG and the API Academy, CA Distinguished Engineer Scott Morrison discusses why APIs are so critical to creating new value streams in your business. See part one and part three here.
In the third and final part of this webcast series co-hosted by CA API Management, IDG and the API Academy, our own VP Matt McLarty provides suggestions on how to navigate the struggles involved in identifying a starting point for one’s journey to microservices. See part one and part two here.
In the first of this three-part webcast series co-hosted by CA API Management, IDG and the API Academy, author and global technologist Mike Amundsen, our Director of API Architecture, cuts through the hype and identifies the key trends, challenges and pitfalls facing companies of all sizes in the search for microservices at speed, safety and scale. […]
It was my great pleasure to join our inaugural #api360 event in Washington, DC, Sept 12. The Newseum was an ideal venue, offering a stunning cityscape view including the Capitol building and, of course, the Canadian Embassy. The day kicked off with Gray Brooks of 18F giving an insider’s view of the widespread API activities taking place in […]
Decouple your service and avoid fatal dependencies It doesn’t matter if your service is “micro” or “oriented”, if it’s tightly coupled – especially if your service is on the Web – you’re going to be stuck nursing your service (and all it’s consumer apps) through lots of pain every time each little change happens (e.g. addresses, operations, arguments, process-flow). And that’s just needless pain. Needless for you and […]
One of REST’s constraints is that of a uniform interface. The main idea of the uniform interface is that it allows components to interact without prior knowledge of each other. Web Architecture is a great example of how a uniform interface creates a large and dynamic ecosystem of interacting components. This talks presents an overview […]
Get to grips with the specifics of deploying an API gateway in a microservice architecture In Lesson 304: API Design for Microservices, we describe the essential role APIs play in microservice architectures. In Lesson 101: API Management Basics, we explain why an API gateway is essential to ensuring API security, usability, scalability and reliability. Here, we focus on […]
I recently had the privilege of participating in two API-related events: the Code PaLOUsa event in Louisville and APIdays Mediterranea in Barcelona. All within just days of each other. It was a great experience. April in Louisville The Louisville Code PaLOUsa event holds a special place in memory for me. It was there, in 2012, that I first began delivering talks […]
When talking to clients about the architectural details of an implementation, one of the first questions I ask is: “What architectural style is appropriate for this Web solution?†It turns out this question stumps most of my audience. Not many system architects and developers think about it. Instead, they implement solutions using whatever components and […]
Following a talk I gave about hypermedia APIs, I received a question from an Abiel Woldu on how to handle hypermedia support when the same backend operation is called from different workflows. Here’s part of the Abiel’s email: “Say you have an end point for validating address; call it /validateAddress. Now this endpoint is called […]
