Tag: Apis
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How to build an effective API strategy in 2021
Posted on September 5, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the building blocks of modern digital ecosystems. They've collapsed data silos, allowing businesses to streamline their operations. By David Campbell.
Tags app-development cio apis devops management
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How are client hints really useful for web performance
Posted on August 28, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length long
Client Hints are HTTP request header fields that a server can request from a client in order to get information about the client's device, network, etc. The server can then determine the type of data to be displayed according to the client information received. By Hargunbeer Singh.
Tags apis devops software web-development performance
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Fortifying APIs with advanced security
Posted on August 25, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In F5's The State of Application Strategy in 2021 report, 58% of respondents said they are building a layer of APIs to modernize applications. Increasingly, though, breaches are taking the form of attacks on APIs. By Karthik Krishnaswamy.
Tags nginx apis web-development app-development infosec
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Think gRPC, when you are architecting modern microservices!
Posted on August 11, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
More than ever before, present day businesses want their IT systems to constantly evolve and be capable of responding positively to the changing goals and priorities. As they say, change is the only constant. In this context, microservices have become the proverbial Holy Grail for solution architects to design and build modern software. By Nikhil Mohan.
Tags app-development apis golang cloud cio
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Extreme HTTP performance tuning: 1.2M API req/s on 4 vCPU EC2 instance
Posted on May 25, 2021, Level advanced Resource Length long
This post will walk you through the performance tuning steps that I took to serve 1.2 million JSON "API" requests per second from a 4 vCPU AWS EC2 instance. For the purposes of this recreated quest, we will ignore most of the dead ends and dark alleyways that I had to struggle through on my solo expedition. By Marc Richards.
Tags performance aws devops json programming cloud apis
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Google beats Oracle in biggest programming copyright Supreme Court case ever
Posted on April 8, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
At long last, programming code's application programming interfaces are protected from Oracle's over-reaching claims. Ten years ago, Oracle argued that Google had infringed Oracle's copyright, by copying the "structure, sequence, and organization" of 37 Java application programming interfaces (APIs) into Android. By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols.
Tags java miscellaneous cio apis
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Redux best practices for creating scalable API architectures
Posted on March 26, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length medium
We often get confused about fetching data and how to connect our frontend application with the backend and we always end up reading tonnes of articles. Stop fetching data in Redux actions. By Shrey Vijayvargiya.
Tags apis react javascript web-development
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Application request tracing with Traefik and Jaeger on Kubernetes
Posted on March 10, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length short
This is the third in a series of articles on site reliability engineering (SRE) and how Traefik can help supply the monitoring and visibility that are necessary to maintain application health. By Neil McAllister.
Tags kubernetes containers apis devops app-development open-source
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How to Create REST API with Azure Functions and Serverless Framework
Posted on March 9, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length short
With the recent updates to the serverless-azure-functions plugin, it is now easier than ever to create, deploy and maintain a real-world REST API running on Azure Functions. This post will walk you through the first few steps of doing that. By Tanner Barlow.
Tags apis azure app-development open-source web-development serverless
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Online payments using the new Web Payment APIs
Posted on March 8, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
The Payment Request API and the Payment Handler API are a set of new W3C web standard being introduced to make payments easier on a website. It is aimed at standardizing and providing a consistent user experience for payments for both end-users and for merchants. By Deepu K Sasidharan, Developer Advocate, Adyen.
Tags apis app-development open-source web-development
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Deep dive into Cloud App Discovery
Posted on March 1, 2021, Level beginner Resource Length short
Cloud Discovery, which is one of the Microsoft Cloud App Security (MCAS) features, helps organizations to identity applications and user activities, traffic volume, and typical usage hours for each cloud application. In a nutshell, it can help to detect "Shadow IT" applications and possible risky applications. By Joanna Harding @Microsoft.
Tags cloud azure apis cio
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How to protect sensitive data for its entire lifecycle in AWS
Posted on February 28, 2021, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Many Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer workflows require ingesting sensitive and regulated data such as Payments Card Industry (PCI) data, personally identifiable information (PII), and protected health information (PHI). In this post, I'll show you a method designed to protect sensitive data for its entire lifecycle in AWS. By Raj Jain.
Tags infosec web-development cio app-development apis