API Technology

19 May 2020 | Anastasia Kholod

One-third of this year’s summer has passed by in a blur, but we are not sad at all. To keep you from going blue, this week’s API Digest starts with green. How much do you know about green APIs? Bill C. Doerrfeld will tell you more in his Green APIs... Read More

22 October 2020 | Lexy Mayko

No matter how long you have been programming, sooner or later you start thinking about how to make the process agile and its results more bug-free and productive. So, you spend a while in an attempt to find a service, extension or tool that will provide the functionality you are... Read More

13 July 2021 | Lexy Mayko

To prevent the world of APIs from becoming alien to you, this week’s API Digest is here with a new portion of smart writing and news. Let us get to the fun part. It has been 2 months since Mashape released Kong, an open-source API management layer. And here they... Read More

8 May 2020 | Lexy Mayko

A few days ago, I decided to watch a couple of API-related videos on youtube, and then the topic went IoT (Internet of Things) and IoT APIs. That was when I came across “The internet of things challenge: building APIs that last for decades”, a recorded presentation by Irakli Nadareishvili,... Read More

13 July 2021 | Lexy Mayko

A good many of fascinating API blog posts came out in the recent while, and API Digest is here to let you know about some of them. We are starting with an imaginative one. Last week, Kristopher Sandoval made our day with a beautiful tale presented on Nordic APIs blog.... Read More

4 March 2020 | Lexy Mayko

Open Authentication (OAuth) is an authentication protocol that allows to let applications perform certain operations on your behalf without sharing your password. It was introduced to help avoid the security risks that using basic authorization could lead to, as it simply asked for username and password that were then forwarded... Read More

22 June 2022 | Lexy Mayko

Two months ago we had the pleasure to interview Mike Stowe, a Developer Relations Manager at MuleSoft who has recently published a book on API Design. Today, we are going to review Undisturbed REST: A Guide to Designing the Perfect API to let you go a little bit deeper into... Read More

16 July 2021 | Lexy Mayko

API security and testing have been much written about recently. We have come across a 5-page paper revealing and debunking the top 5 API testing myths released about two months ago.  Excited to find out what they are? See them listed and visualized as well as some risks of neglecting API testing in the infographic... Read More

23 August 2022 | Anastasia Kholod

Having participated in an API conference about two years ago, Ole Lensmar decided to share the ideas concerning API testing and debugging taken from his part. We found the article interesting, and that is why here it is at your disposal. This blog-post is loosely based on a session on... Read More

8 May 2020 | Lexy Mayko

One of our recent articles was dedicated to Hypermedia APIs and pluses of their use. Today, we are going to dwell on a related topic, that is, types of hypermedia you can choose for your API. First of all, let us briefly summarize why hypermedia APIs are worked with. Very... Read More