In API Design Lesson 202: Architectural Layers, we explain how key API functionality can be abstracted away from the implementation itself and handled via centralized server architecture. Here, we explain the technology components needed for this architecture and how they create the basis for an ongoing process of API Management. When launching an API program, it…
Category: API Management
TechTalk: Open APIs featuring API Evanelist Kin Lane
This was an live Q&A with API evangelist Kin Lane where he took questions live on API Management and Open APIs
TechTalk: Enterprise Mobility – APIs, Apps, and Mobile Strategy
With employee demands for anywhere access to information and the rise of the mobile device in driving new consumer experiences, it’s more important than ever to have a solid enterprise mobility strategy. We discussed the key elements which are making today’s enterprise mobility programs successful with Layer7 mobile experts SVP and Distinguished Engineer Scott Morrison…
TechTalk: Avoiding Data Silos Using Linked APIs
Practical problems that software architects on modern product teams face increasingly go far beyond the familiar. Case in point: “Big Data” doesn’t just mean petabytes of data or a data-set that doesn’t fit in a single large RDBMS, anymore. A “distributed system” doesn’t just mean a clever multi-tier architecture or even an AWS deployment happily…
TechTalk: Mobile World Congress 2014 Panel Discussion on Top Trends
Live panel of mobile and API experts discussing major trends and developments coming out of Mobile World Congress 2014.
TechTalk: Optimizing APIs Using Akamai and Layer7
This live, interactive event featured Akamai’s Gary Ballabio alongside Layer7’s Francois Lascelles. They chatted and discussed CDN API Management Using Optimized API Distribution.
TechTalk: APIs – Fueling Cloud, IoT, Mobile, BigData featuring Matt Mclarty
Live interactive Q&A with Layer7’s VP, Client Solutions and use-case expert Matt McLarty responded to questions. We discussed how APIs are fueling today’s biggest tech trends: cloud, IoT, Mobile, Social, BigData.
TechTalk: The Internet of Things featuring Holger Reinhardt
Live discussion on the Internet of Things (IoT). Our special guest — Layer7 Product Architect and IoT expert Holger Reinhardt — answered questions live.
TechTalk: API Management Use Cases Across Industries featuring Alex Gaber
Our latest TechTalk discussing leading-edge API Management use cases from the field. Our guest expert — Layer7 API Evangelist Alex Gaber — outlined how organizations across industry sectors are using API Management to securely expose their information assets to partners, developers, mobile apps and cloud services.
TechTalk: Enterprise Mobility and BYOD
Smartphones, tablets and the apps they run are revolutionizing the way we work. With the BYOD movement gaining strength in the enterprise, executives and managers cannot afford to ignore the existence of workforce mobility — or the security risks it creates. Matt McLarty and Leif Bildoy of Layer7 discussed how enterprises can realize the opportunities…