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In a world full of microservices and distributed systems, building robust and reliable APIs is of paramount concern. One key concept that plays a vital role in achieving reliability is idempotency. In this article, we'll delve into the world of idempotency, exploring what it is, why it's important, and how it can be implemented to solve the persistent problem of duplicate processing in APIs. Along the way, we'll see how to build an idempotent API in Node.js with Redis.

You might have heard the rumors circulating in the tech world—PHP, the venerable programming language, isn’t as secure as its modern counterparts. With roots tracing back nearly three decades, PHP soared to popularity during the early days of the web, when security practices were still finding their footing.

We are delighted to announce our acquisition of Delphix, a best-in-class leader in Enterprise Data Management solutions. I want to share with you why I am personally excited about this major milestone in our company’s continued DevOps evolution and the benefits this acquisition provides to our customers. Data is at the heart of how enterprises operate today and essential for successful software development, but accessing and managing that data is extremely challenging.

Why does API architecture matter, and how can you excel at it? It’s an important question to ask as you are trying to improve existing APIs or write new ones. In this article, we will create a high-level roadmap to understanding the foundations of API architecture, from API Gateways and data management to architectural styles like RESTful and GraphQL. We will look at best practices to enhance scalability and security and look closer at tools that support robust API development.

Apigee is a cloud-based API management tool. It integrates data from databases, warehouses, data lakes and SaaS services. It is a no-code tool making it a valuable asset for citizen integrators and developers alike. However, the platform was initially designed to build APIs for monoliths. It was not designed to handle microservices. Given we are in the age of digital transformation where microservices rule, Apigee may not be suitable for a lot of use cases.

API testing is a critical part of the software development lifecycle. If you’re not performance testing your APIs, you’re putting your entire system at risk. API testing is the process of verifying and validating the functionality, reliability, performance, and security of an API to ensure it meets its requirements and behaves as expected. This guide will discuss the importance of testing and how to test APIs.

Dive into the essentials of DevOps and Mobile DevOps. This blog post covers the DevOps core principles, the differences between DevOps and Mobile DevOps, and the integration of security and engineering practices, alongside answers to common DevOps questions and a glossary of terms.

At Honeybadger, we use Ahoy for first-party analytics in Rails. Ahoy is excellent for developers because it lives in your Rails application alongside your other data and code. Want to answer a specific question about your product or website visitors? It's just one ActiveRecord query away: Ahoy also works with Chartkick and Groupdate to visualize your data.

In my previous post, we discussed how to take advantage of VPA to implement automatic vertical scaling for our Konnect Data Planes. In this post, we'll focus on HPA for horizontal Kubernetes Pods autoscaling.