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APIs have revolutionized every industry. They fuel digital transformation and power the web, making up more than 83% of global internet traffic. And API adoption will only grow, with AI, Web3 , and decentralization only further driving API usage and integration. But these sometimes-overlooked…
The world of financial services is driven by digital experiences. Over the last 20 years, virtually all banking activities have been taken online (an unfortunate change only for fans of pneumatic tubes and pens on beaded chains). Like other industries that have undergone digital transformation,…
Enterprises are investing in data mesh initiatives to accelerate how decisions are made and to create novel experiences based on machine learning models. Similarly, enterprises are investing in API platform initiatives to productize business domains (or bounded contexts in domain-driven design…
The concept of Zero Trust is based on the belief that no internal network or system can be fully trusted. Traditional network architectures, such as a perimeter-based model, rely on distinguishing between internal and external networks. However, this approach is flawed because internal networks can…
The ability to rapidly assemble and reassemble APIs and microservices has become a competitive differentiator across all industries — allowing organizations to pivot business models and deliver amazing customer experiences at speed and scale. Innovative organizations are pushing to become agile and…
Engineering organizations building modern API-driven systems have different priorities when it comes to their API management solution. These priorities will drive design decisions about the deployment of various components for API gateways. Some organizations are looking to optimize compute…
In this post, Nathaniel Reynolds, Associate Director of Informatics Architecture & DevOps at Moderna Therapeutics, talks about service mesh, removing limitations with open source, and how AI helps developers do more. No one can predict the future, but here's a safe bet: in the next five to ten…
From time to time, Kong’s Brad Drysdale and Ahmed Koshok exchange emails about the latest trends in tech. In this exchange, Brad and Ahmed discuss the continued quest for more innovation faster, the role of automation in API strategy, and more. from: Brad to: Ahmed date: Oct. 29, 2022, 6:58 PM…
We live in a digital economy where Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are foundational elements for businesses to operate and grow. As rightly outlined by Gartner , APIs interconnect individual systems that contain data about people, businesses and things, enable transactions, and create new…
Today's digital economy is shifting toward dependence on microservices — self-contained and reusable software components — working in coordination to compose the applications we use. Communication between microservices happens through the API (or application programming interface) . Using APIs…
Web APIs are an integral piece of the development landscape today. According to a 2021 survey , top industries such as Digital Banking , Retail, and Financial services have experienced significant year-on-year API traffic growth with 70%, 51% and 50% increases since February 2021, respectively. The…
One of the most critical requirements for an Application Modernization project is to support workloads running on multiple platforms. In fact, such projects naturally include in their transformation process migrating workloads approach using the hybrid model. Another typical technical decision that…
APIs are at the backbone of every modern application that powers our day-to-day lives. As a matter of fact, API traffic today is at least 83% of the world’s global internet traffic [1], which underlines the importance of modern API infrastructure that can unlock innovation, agility, fast release…
You would think in the Internet age, primary sources for a widely discussed event — one that's helped define cloud computing and today's cascading digital transformation of enterprises — would be easy to track down. The original footprint must be somewhere. But that's not so in the case of the…
Jason Cumberland , CPO and co-founder of API and data monetization platform HyperCurrent , contributed to this post. In our last article on how to get started with API monetization , we laid out how to build your API monetization strategy and avoid common pitfalls that occur when trying to get to…
Secure your AI infrastructure with prompt guards, PII sanitization, and centralized governance. Control LLM costs with token-based rate limiting and semantic routing across providers.