What is an API call?
Have you ever wondered… what’s an API call? Sounds like you’re going to make a telephone call and talk about APIs. Well, if only...
What is API integration?
APIs are ubiquitous these days! From inputting your information to buying something online to your mobile phone, all things come back to APIs. With...
What is an API?
You hear the word every day, API. But what is an API? According to Wikipedia, an API (Application Programming Interface) is “a set of...
The difference between API first design and API first
API first holds a special meaning for me. When I first met the Australian Axway team at the 2015 APIdays (learn about APIdays 2019...
There’s gold in them thar hills
Recently I was working on a pitch to my executive board, and I wanted to include some content that I thought would be perfect...
Microgateway Blog Series, Part 5: Avengers Assemble–MicroGateway & API Gateway…
As a continuation from my previous blog entry of comparing Istio to Ant-Man, I’d like to continue with the superhero theme to provide a...
Istio: Is it a bird?… Microgateway Blog Series, Part 4
“It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Super…” No, wait it’s Istio! If you squint, you can just make it out! What is Istio?...
Microgateway Blog Series, Part 3: Whodunit?
When things break in a microservice architecture, determining the cause is challenging where did it fail and why? There are so many things that...
API Conference wrap-up, lesson 3: microservices management
As we continue with the three lessons from the API Conference in Berlin in September, we now come to the final lesson 3: microservices...
Microgateway Blog Series, Part 2: Edge to internal
If you are a fan of Game of Thrones (GoT), this post will make sense to you. I will be equating the roles and...
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What are the different types of APIs?
There isn't just one type of APIs but actually three main types of APIs: Open APIs - aka Public APIs - are publicly available...
What is MASA – Mesh App and Service Architecture?
MASA is a new architectural model introduced by Gartner which stands for Mesh app and service architecture. It reflects what has emerged over the...
How to easily secure your APIs with API keys and OAuth?
Securing your API does sound like a complicated thing but there are some basic things you can consider to setup your API in a...
What is API Lifecycle Management?
API Lifecycle Management is a term illustrating the need to manage all steps in a life of an API, from creation to retirement. APIs are...
What is API Throttling, Quota, Rate Limiting and Burst?
In the world of APIs nobody gives direct access to his resources because you never know how much your services are going to be...