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Editor’s note: Today we hear from Worldline, a financial services organization that creates and operates digital platforms handling billions of critical transactions between companies, partners, and customers every year. In this post, Wordline head of alliances and partnerships Michaël Petiot and head of API platform support Tanja Foing explain how APIs and API management enable this €2.3 billion enterprise to offer its services to partners in a wide variety of industries.

Our decision to change from a perpetual licence model to subscriptions was one of the great naive moments in Yellowfin’s history. It was about eight years ago and we had great sales growth but it was getting harder to start from scratch every year and sell more perpetual licenses. At the same time, our maintenance business was growing so we decided to flip our model and sell subscriptions. It seemed like a good idea at the time as none of our competitors were selling subscriptions.

A lot of enterprises are evolving their monolithic applications into microservices architectures. In this pattern, applications are composed of fine-grained services that communicate via APIs. Microservices promise, faster development, innovation, cloud scaling, better infrastructure optimization—and happier developers. No wonder this architecture gets so much attention.

OctoPerf’s Load Testing IDE (Kraken) is an application with two frontends - The Administration UI used to manage Docker containers and images, The Gatling UI to debug and execute load tests with Gatling. Both UI are based on Angular 8 and share many components, CSS and external library dependencies. This blog post is a guide for every developer that would like to create an Angular Workspace with several applications and libraries.

Today, we are excited to announce the release of Kong 1.3! Our engineering team and awesome community has contributed numerous features and improvements to this release. Based on the success of the 1.2 release, Kong 1.3 is the first version of Kong that natively supports gRPC proxying, upstream mutual TLS authentication, along with a bunch of new features and performance improvements.