API Academy See 13 essential use cases and discover key capabilities for effective API Management To execute ideas quickly and seize new opportunities, it is critical for digital businesses to create and manage APIs effectively. But what is effective API Management? The API Management Playbook from CA Technologies provides a great reference guide for: Winning at digital…
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Five Factors to Consider When Selecting an API Management Provider
Recently, INOVIS, a strategic intelligence and research firm, published a new report on Five Factors to Consider When Selecting an API Management Provider. I’d like to share more about these five factors, and why they are important when evaluating an API Management solution. The five factors for evaluation include: Ease of use Scale Security Flexibility…
Continuous API Management
Mehdi Medjaoui, Erik Wilde, Ronnie Mitra & Mike Amundsen Making the Right Decisions in an Evolving Landscape A lot of work is required to release an API, but the effort doesn’t always pay off. Overplanning before an API matures is a wasted investment, while underplanning can lead to disaster. This practical guide provides maturity models…
A Digital Transformation Overview and API Security
We know that in the software business, experience is everything. 83% US consumers said that having a positive customer experience with a brand is more important than the actual product. And we all know that making customers happy today can be tricky. They’re very sophisticated, with high expectations, and they want to make an emotional…
Should Your APIs be Open?
Dive into the pros and cons of implementing open APIs Show Notes In the third episode of our new podcast series, Erik Wilde , Mike Amundsen, Matt McLarty and Ronnie Mitra dive into the pros and cons of implementing open APIs—exploring how offering a public API might impact your organization, from a business and strategy…
How To: Fostering a Microservices Culture
In this video, Mike Amundsen of the API Academy applies theories from the worlds of computing and anthropology to define the right organizational approach to Microservices.
API Management 302: Using an API Gateway in Microservice Architecture
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…
Product Management for Microservices
In this presentation, taken from the API Academy Microservices Bootcamp at CA World 2015, Irakli Nadareishvili shows how the techniques of digital product management can be effective when adopting Microservices.
TechTalk: Common OAuth Security Mistakes and Threat Mitigations
With vulnerabilities recently surfacing in the OAuth implementations of popular service providers like Yammer, Instagram and Facebook, it’s hard to blame anyone for getting the impression that there are fundamental security flaws in the OAuth protocol. Francois Lascelles, Chief Architect at Layer7, answered OAuth questions live, discussed the common security mistakes made in OAuth implementations…
API Management 301: OAuth-Based Access Control
Learn how OAuth provides standard patterns upon which you can deliver API access control In API Management Lesson 201: API Security, we examine typical areas of API vulnerability and share best practices for addressing these vulnerabilities – including the use of OAuth as an access control mechanism. In this lesson, we describe how OAuth provides standard…