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Six Health Checks for Your API

It’s common for APIs to see hundreds or thousands of calls per second. The high traffic means that APIs need to have a low latency to maintain an acceptable response time. To … See more

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Advice to Developers: Double-check Configurations to Avoid

WebCloud misconfigurations can go well beyond simple access to publicly accessible sensitive data. In October 2019, cyber security company Imperva reported that an attacker was able to find an administrative API key on a misconfigured Amazon production instance. The attacker used this key to access a 2017 database instance …

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How to Identify Your Organization’s API Landscape

WebYour company provides a lot of APIs to both external and internal consumers. Your API landscape is every API you’ve built, plus those in the early stages of design and development. This article discusses the need to identify and categorize your APIs.

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How-to: Real-time API Monitoring

WebWith BlazeMeter API monitoring you can make real calls to your API from a cloud-based solution, may be even running test from multiple locations to get a wider picture of how networks and geography effect your API. The BlazeMeter API monitoring solution can give you the simple response health of your API but is an HTTP 200 enough.

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The Importance of API Testing

WebThe Importance of API Testing. Like any software, APIs are subject to bugs and other errors. That makes API testing at least as important as other software testing, likely more-so. With potentially hundreds or thousands of consumers, an issue in your API could have a magnifying effect. To maintain software quality, it makes sense to have a

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Running API Management in Containers: Rebooting Agility and …

WebFigure 1: The Operator control loop. Beyond Efficiency: The Value-Added of API Management with a Kubernetes Operator. The benefits of running API Management in containers with a Kubernetes Operator extend far beyond operational efficiency.

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Securing the Digital Record

WebData is king in healthcare, and in the above case, would have likely saved your life. The ability to securely exchange healthcare data while protecting patient privacy is complex, but necessary as the healthcare industry embraces digital transformation. This blog discusses the transformation in the medical industry and how it helps during a …

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How OpenTelemetry is Transforming Observability

WebThe OpenTelemetry framework – also known as OTel – launched in 2019 as a merger of two existing open-source projects, OpenCensus and OpenTracing. What OTel essentially offers is standardization of the way that organizations format and collect metrics, logs, and traces from all of these different components.

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OpenTelemetry: A Game-Changing Standard for Application …

WebOpenTelemetry is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) open-source incubator project, OpenTelemetry is a framework including a set of standard formats, software development kits (SDKs), libraries, and lightweight collectors that allow enterprises to collect application telemetry. OpenTelelemetry is concerned with application logs, …

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API Management Archives

WebAdam’s latest blog discusses API Change management and how it allows us to create a process or a set of rules that shapes the way the API grows as more endpoints are added and as existing functionality changes.

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Continuous Monitoring for API Reliability

WebTesting is a powerful tool to include in your monitoring arsenal. You should write tests for authentication, availability, and speed. Run tests regularly because a variety of factors can affect your API performance, and frequent testing will make it easy to identify when API degradation began. You can combine alerts, tests, and the data they

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Five Factors to Consider When Selecting an API Management …

WebRecently, INOVIS, a strategic intelligence and research firm, published a new report on Five Factors to Consider When Selecting an API Management Provider . I’d like to share more about these five factors, and why they are important when evaluating an API Management solution. The five factors for evaluation include: Ease of use. Scale

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Enriching and Externalizing Gateway Metrics to Splunk

WebOverview Gateway metrics are a critical piece of intel to determine the health of Services and traffic throughput on an API Gateway. Using Layer7 API Management as an example, there are a few ways we can obtain this information: Policy Manager: Dashboard, PAPIM (Precision API Monitoring), sending this information to a …

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API Strategy Archives

WebWhich 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.

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Why APIs are Critical Today

WebWhy APIs are Critical Today. By Greg Thompson Posted on April 27, 2020. APIs are more important than ever in these challenging times where everything is being operated remotely. APIs make it easy to provide access to information and keep businesses running smoothly. They can also create new challenges and risks if they are not properly …

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Do You Need Site Reliability Engineers for Your APIs

WebThe SRE’s role as a diplomat between developers and operations can help increase efficiency in the release cycle. With proper monitoring and post-incident improvement, SREs can help any software—including your APIs—be more stable and reliable. SRE vs DevOps for APIs. The Push for Zero Trust. In this article, Adam takes a …

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A Digital Transformation Overview and API Security

WebWe know that in the software business, experience is everything. 83% US consumers said that having a positive customer experience with a brand is more important than the actual product. And we all know that making customers happy today can be tricky. They’re very sophisticated, with high expectations, and they want to make an …

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Preparing to Scale your APIs

WebAPIs are now the number one route to market for many businesses. They are driving mobile applications, web applications and other channels like IOT. The API is now the key to the customer experiences and organizations digital transformation. In times of greater demand, such as retail shopping events or health crisis around the world the […]

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API Management 103: Choosing a Solution

WebIn Lesson 102: Architectural Components, we explain the key technology components required for a full-featured API Management solution. There are various solutions currently on the market, a number of which meet these basic requirements. In this lesson, we provide more practical advice on how to choose between specific solutions. A …

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