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The Essential Guide to Understanding Every API Type

APIs, or application programming interfaces, allow different software systems to communicate. But different types of APIs exist. Each type serves a different purpose. And each type has its own pros, cons, and use cases. This article breaks down the main API categories—open, partner, internal, and composite. We also discuss the types of APIs based on the protocols they use. At the end of this article, you can confidently choose the right one for your needs.

Optimize Mobile App Testing for Speed, Scale, and Coverage

Hosted By: Maxwell Newsom, Solution Engineer, Sauce Labs Ashwini Sathe, Senior Group Product Marketing Manager, Sauce Labs Background: As the mobile industry experiences explosive growth, delivering quality mobile apps at speed and maintaining a seamless customer experience has never been more important. In fact, after using Sauce Labs, customers improved release speeds by up to 50% and achieved a 46% uptick in weekly code deployments.

The Future of Shift-Left in Software Development

According to the NIST research, the cost of detecting and fixing software defects exponentially increases over time. Shift left testing highlights the importance of testing early and frequently in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to ensure that errors are identified and fixed as soon as possible. This method aligns closely with Agile Testing and DevOps Testing philosophies, which emphasize early and continuous integration.

Slowing Down to Go Fast: Applying Technology Impact Assessments to Test Automation Transformation

Every enterprise seeks to gain competitive advantage through the embrace of new, innovative technologies to either transform external customer engagement or unlock internal operational efficiencies. Test automation represents a powerful technology innovation by which product teams can unlock significant software development operational efficiencies. But test automation transformation initiatives come with notable risks that should be considered.

Defining Asynchronous Microservice APIs for Fraud Detection | Designing Event-Driven Microservices

In this video, Wade explores the process of decomposing a monolith into a series of microservices. You'll see how Tributary bank extracts a variety of API methods from an existing monolith. Tributary Bank wants to decompose its monolith into a series of microservices. They are going to start with their Fraud Detection service. However, before they can start, they first have to untangle the existing code. They will need to define a clean API that will allow them to move the functionality to an asynchronous, event-driven microservice.