This summer, we were one of the vendors that responded to the research requests for The Forrester Wave™: API Management Solutions, Q4 2018. This research project is led by Forrester’s vice president and principal analyst for application delivery and development, Randy Heffner, with whom I recently chatted about microservices and microgateways in a webinar. Randy’s… Continue reading →

When a programmer sets out to construct a business-oriented API, he or she has to strongly consider what data format best fits the company’s needs, as well as the intended end-users. Some formats are more user-friendly than others, which makes them suitable for a consumer (B2C) application.  For a limited B2B interaction, a Web-friendly JSON… Continue reading →

The recent surge in the popularity of APIs among the consumer public has sent companies scrambling to the programmer’s drawing board to devise their own. Much of this has to do with the continuing trends of portability in electronic devices (e.g, Smartphones and Tablets) which – as it turns out – are a natural medium… Continue reading →