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Building an API often means adding user authentication, rate limiting, logging, caching, or other such functions. In a world of microservices, that can mean a lot of unneeded reinvention. That’s the ...

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are no longer a niche technical concern; they are fundamental building blocks of modern business. From streamlining business processes and enabling external ...

Mashape, the increasingly popular management platform and marketplace for APIs, today open-sourced one of the core technologies that power its service. The platform, called Kong, allows Mashape to ...

APIs have become the mechanism of choice for connecting internal and external services, applications, data, identities, and other digital assets. As a result, APIs now have the potential to serve as a ...

As APIs increasingly serve as the essential glue in today's app economy, many enterprises are struggling to keep pace with a consistent API-security strategy, according to a survey out today by Ovum ...

Part 1 of this series discussed the key aspects of a distribution operation landscape, which will define the successful utility of the future. Part 2 examines challenges that must be addressed to ...

Many growing companies reach a point where managing suppliers through email and Excel becomes impossible. You'll likely ...

API Management Anchors the API Marketplace Generally, an API marketplace comprises several components. In a typical scenario, producers first publish APIs, and these are then catalogued and displayed ...