REST APIs and Event Streams Taste Better Together
REST APIs and Event Streams are the strawberries and ice cream of connected applications, says Gustav Rosén, CEO & Founder of Entiros Integrations. I often get the same question from product owners and developers that are about to build connectivity for their applications: "When do I choose Event Streaming vs. [nordicapis.com]
Webhooks vs WebSub - A comparison
In usage and use case, webhooks and WebSub are similar... but different. The article below sheds some more light on when and how to use each. From GitHub to Mailchimp, webhooks are everywhere. They are a user-defined Callback-URL, which needs to be registered at the service provider's platform. [ably.io]
APIs vs. Microservices: Why you need both
I spend quite a bit of time helping organizations transform their existing IT platforms to improve reliability, resilience, and stability. A key element in that process is expanding the use of Microservices and APIs. [linkedin.com]
How To Make Scalable APIs Using Flask and FaunaDB
First, write a python file that would run Flask. Next, before we start writing our services and helpers we must first define an entity file to connect to FaunaDB. This is used to get a FaunaDB document by Index. The get function does not return multiple documents and is only able to return a single document at a time. by Agustinus Theodorus [towardsdatascience.com]
Developer Love | Ep. #7, API Evangelism with Kin Lane of Postman | Heavybit
In episode 7 of Developer Love, Patrick Woods and Kin Lane of Postman unpack how the API evangelism landscape has changed over the years. They also discuss Kin's career educating developers through writing and storytelling. [heavybit.com]
Spotlight: GraphQL and gRPC
How Gitlab puts gRPC in the Real World
In this series we've presented the basics of what the gRPC specification is and how it works. In this installment, we will take a real-world look at how the Source Control Management Service GitLab adopted gRPC when it refactored its server-side architecture into the Gitaly project. [programmableweb.com]
gRPC in the Real World: The Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface
In this article we're going to look at how gRPC is used by Kubernetes in its Container Runtime Interface (CRI) technology. Bit first, why aren't we seeing that much gRPC on the front-end? It's a question that's been asked many times now and it is one that is well worth answering. [programmableweb.com]
Road to gRPC
Cloudflare launched support for gRPC ® during our 2020 Birthday Week. We've been humbled by the immense interest in the beta, and we'd like to thank everyone that has applied and tried out gRPC! In this post we'll do a deep-dive into the technical details on how we implemented support. [blog.cloudflare.com]
New Features in GraphQL Editor 3.0 Enrich the API Development Experience
GraphQL Editor announced today the release of Version 3.0 of its flagship development tool. The new release of GraphQL Editor 3.0 offers a variety of new features that intended to improve the productivity of developers creating APIs according to the GraphQL specification. [programmableweb.com]
The Business of APIs
