This came up in a CI/CD pipeline discussion with Aman Khurana at our customer FedEx a few weeks ago, and the more I think about it, the more I like the phrase. I’m going to call it “CCLC” for short. In my view, this is a great summary of the important goals of a modern…
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You Bet That APIs Power DevOps Tools
Which came first, APIs or DevOps? Though the two are complementary, the answer here is clear. There are major benefits of DevOps in your API lifecycle, but APIs are likely responsible for the growth in DevOps methodologies. The Cloud, modern code reviews, and continuous integration all depend on APIs. APIs Cause Cloud Formations Plenty has…
How to Publish GraphQL APIs to a Developer Portal
So you’ve been using and getting all the benefits that GraphQL has to offer with the Arvata GraphQL server for a while now, and you keep hearing about these concepts with an API developer portal involving client→API mappings and account/API plans. What are these concepts and how can you benefit from them? Client → API…
How to Include Rich Content in Your API Documentation
Clear documentation is a vital part of any API that you publish for broad consumption. No matter the quality of the API itself, consumers need documentation to get the most out of the API with a minimum amount of friction. A comprehensive specification is a great starting point, but often more is needed to establish…
API Keys are not API Security
I recently had an interesting article show up in my Google newsfeed on API Keys, their generation, and their distribution. A group of developers posed the following question to the community: how do you build and distribute your API keys to your API consumer audience? Being immersed in APIs and API developer communities every day,…
How to Protect Existing GraphQL Endpoints using an API Gateway
You’ve spent months building a GraphQL API. The schema is just right, and your front-end developers are thrilled with it. At first it’s only exposed internally, so you’re not that worried about security, but then as different clients find out that you have this awesome API out there, they want to start using it as…
Istio and Mesh are a Microservices Deployment Framework
And Together, They Need to have Business Context The industry and our customers have expressed a great interest in Istio and service mesh over the past couple of months. I find this interesting because the tool represents the next evolutionary step, but is not without a few downsides. My focus in API management has sharpened…
TechTalk: A Panel on API Security
May’s TechTalk had hosts Aran and Bill joined by Dmitry Sotnikov, CPO of 42Crunch, for a panel discussion on common API security issues and how to mitigate them. In addition to addressing these common issues, the panel also took questions from the audience. Definitely a topic of interest. API Academy encourages those who are interested…
How to Deploy a GraphQL Server Using Arvata Euclid
GraphQL is a powerful and relatively new paradigm that can greatly enhance your API offerings, and now it is possible to create a GraphQL API on the Layer7 API Gateway using Arvata Euclid. There are 4 prerequisites to deploy a GraphQL server to a Layer7 API Gateway. Let’s take a look at each. #1: The…
Advice to Developers: Double-check Configurations to Avoid Cybersecurity Pain
Last month in my API Academy blog I provided my observations and recommendations about the importance of logging and monitoring from a cybersecurity perspective. This month, I’ll focus on the importance of avoiding security misconfigurations when building and updating applications. As I noted last month, I’m a bit of an old salt in security, having…