More and more, development teams are adopting an API-first approach to software development, in which APIs are the building blocks of software and everything else is built around them. This is in contrast to code-first, where the full application — including the API, UI, and other components — is planned out together at the same … continue reading
Onymos, developer of solutions transforming Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) for software and application development, today announced the release of an enhanced version of its intelligent document processing component, DocKnow. The latest version revolutionizes document processing with its new ability to integrate customer-specific large language models (LLMs), enabling enterprises to extract, process, and validate data from documents with unmatched … continue reading
Kong is hosting its API Summit 2024 event, and has made announcements about several improvements to its platforms. Key highlights are updates to Kong Konnect, its API management platform, which also includes new versions of Kong Insomnia, Kong Gateway, and Kong AI Gateway. The latest updates to Kong Konnect help companies further prepare their API … continue reading
When multiple buyers and sellers trade goods and services in a marketplace, participants benefit from efficiencies of scale, as their specializations of supply come together to meet customer demand. In enterprise software marketplaces, each participant vendor contributes specialized expertise, functionality, and scale that are essential to building a complete solution for end users—assuming of course, … continue reading
Hoppscotch is an open source API development platform intended as an alternative to tools like Postman and Insomnia. It features a minimalistic UI design with customizable theming, such as a distraction-free mode. Hoppscotch can be used as a cloud-hosted web app, a self-hosted desktop app, or run through the command line. One of the key … continue reading
Boomi is helping companies more easily discover, manage, and govern all of their APIs with the launch of the Boomi API Control Plane. This new offering utilizes technology gained from Boomi’s recent acquisition of the federated API management company APIIDA. According to Boomi, organizations can sometimes have “shadow APIs,” which are APIs that exist outside … continue reading
The API management platform Gravitee has announced a new solution, Federated API Management, which provides governance capabilities for companies using multiple API gateways and event brokers. According to the company, businesses today are often managing tens of thousands of APIs and different teams tend to use different API gateways as well. This leads to API … continue reading
Postman has released a number of updates designed to help companies more effectively collaborate on API development. “An API should be built with its user in mind. Users need to know what an API is and how it works. If they can’t do that, they waste a lot of time looking for the information, struggling … continue reading
The API management company WSO2 has announced updates across several of its products: WSO2 API Manager, WSO2 API Platform for Kubernetes (WSO2 APK), and WSO2 Micro Integrator. The WSO2 API Manager control plane was updated to now be able to manage both itself and WSO2 APK. This allows WSO2 APK APIs to benefit from the … continue reading
SmartBear has announced that its API development platform SwaggerHub has been integrated with Stoplight, an API design company that SmartBear acquired last summer. According to the company, Stoplight helps simplify the API development process by providing an intuitive interface for design. This makes API design accessible to non-technical users and streamlines the process for technical … continue reading
Bruno is an API client that hopes to revolutionize “the status quo represented by Postman, Insomnia and similar tools out there,” the project’s website says. It stores collections directly on users’ filesystems, with no intention of ever adding cloud-sync. “We value your data privacy and believe it should stay on your device,” the maintainers say … continue reading
WSO2 is updating its open-source identity and access management (IAM) software, Identity Server. Key highlights of Identity Server 7.0 include a new authentication API, a new visual editor, and one-click access to application templates. The new authentication API allows developers to build authentication flows that happen directly in an application rather than redirecting to a … continue reading
