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When to Use REST vs. gRPC vs. GraphQL (Part 1)

The proliferation of microservices has led to many new innovative approaches in the software world. However, building robust, quality APIs that consistently deliver the business outcomes you desire can be a complex task. It’s no wonder a recent survey of organizations adopting microservices found that nearly 30% of the respondents listed “API quality” as one of their biggest challenges. API-based applications don’t just come in one flavor.

Webhook integrations | How to use webhooks in your integration flows

While APIs are often called as the new standard for integrating business applications, the topic of webhooks integration seems to be largely underrepresented in the how-to guides and reference literature. This is unfortunate, because actually, webhooks represent a powerful mechanism that allows to build event driven integrations with quite a high level of customization and functionality.

Understand API Load Testing vs. API Performance Monitoring

With over a billion more mobile devices projected to become connected over the next year, it’s never been more important to ensure SLA performance and functional reliability for business-critical APIs. While QA, development, and SRE teams have traditionally relied on API load testing and uptime or ping monitors to mitigate performance risk, too many companies have felt the pain of APIs, mobile apps and web platforms failing under stress or unexpected traffic patterns.

Does Your Organizational Data Readiness Give Your Business a Competitive Edge?

Data drives the success of today’s businesses. Simply collecting data, however, does not mean that you can use it in ways that help your organization reach its goals. The following article discusses the role that organizational data readiness plays in your search for efficient, effective business processes at all levels of your business.

What's New for Zephyr Enterprise: Better features for BDD, test automation, and Jira integration.

We’ve been hard at work over the past year with new features every month, and we’re super excited to tell you about the new capabilities. Our product roadmap focus has been relentless. Helping your teams get: All of this while making Zephyr Enterprise more scalable and secure for your teams. We know how important these themes are, and we’re committed to meeting Enterprise teams where they’re at, and getting them to where they’re going.

The 7 Best E-Commerce Integrations and APIs

The seven best e-commerce APIs and integrations are: If you're just starting out with your e-commerce store, it can be difficult to know what the best e-commerce APIs, tools, and technologies your startup needs in order to begin. Running an e-commerce business requires a wide range of functionality beyond simply selling products from your storefront with your e-commerce platform.

Tech talk: DevMyOps - Deploy Kong with Pulumi

Tech Talks by Kong are a new webinar series dedicated to our technical developer audience featuring open-source products and topics relevant to you with extended live demos. The quest for resilience and agility has driven us into the modern age of microservices. Bringing services to market on microservice architecture demands utilization of sprawling technology offerings and tooling. Universally this journey includes an infrastructure orchestration phase, an application deployment phase, and a service publishing phase.

3 Reasons Developers Need Turn-Key API Analytics

Savannah Whitman When your platform runs on APIs, all of those APIs need to run perfectly. Quickly resolving issues in your API isn’t just helpful, it’s mandatory. Latency and error monitoring are only the beginning: a healthy server isn’t the same thing as a healthy product. Resolving error cases and API abuse is easiest with full visibility into your API, which is where API analytics come in.