Integration. That’s one big chore that keeps the IT and application development teams busy throughout the day. In a growing enterprise, new business requirements and increasing reliance on third-party systems are a standard norm. Therefore, integrating different systems and applications is a never-ending challenge for these teams. Enterprise …
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Top Four Tyk Alternatives for API Management
Introduction to Tyk Tyk offers a complete API lifecycle management platform, including robust governance, auditing, advanced analytics, and traffic management features. Tyk also includes an API tech stack for supporting various chores within a production API deployment. Tyk is committed to open source, and some of its leading offerings, …
API Architecture: Components and Best Practices for Building Robust APIs
APIs represent a significant part of any web-enabled software. With the rise of the "as-a-service" model of software delivery, APIs also offer a consistent pattern for building modular and scalable systems. Therefore, we are witnessing a radical shift in the evolution of software architecture. Instead of embedding a bunch of APIs within, entire …
A Brief Introduction to CI/CD and Emerging Trends in Software Development
Do you recall how software was shipped in floppies, CDs, and DVDs in the typical brick-and-mortar fashion? Software delivery models have undergone enormous changes in the last few decades. The Internet eased the distribution of software binaries by facilitating direct download. However, cloud computing has radically transformed the software …
Top 4 Best API Fortress Alternatives
Introduction to API Fortress API Fortress is a modern API testing platform for agile teams and DevOps. It is part of SauceLab’s testing offering and is an enterprise-grade platform for API testing, monitoring, and performance analysis. SauceLabs is a leader in testing solutions with over 3 billion tests run on the SauceLab Continuous Testing …
How To Scrape Hashtags with Twitter API using Python
Twitter is a treasure trove of information. It is incredible how, despite the strict constraints on content length, people have embraced it and forged meaningful conversations with celebrities and strangers. However, if you decide to put Twitter to some smart use, it opens up more opportunities. All thanks to the Advanced Twitter search …
Top 4 Apigee Alternatives for API Management
Introduction to Apigee Apigee is a full-stack API management platform from Google. Apigee enables enterprises to build, deploy, and scale API programs with ease, along with robust features covering the entire API life cycle and API governance capabilities. Apigee includes an API management suite along with monitoring and testing modules. …
Top 4 Katalon Alternatives
Introduction to Katalon Katalon has a complete suite of solutions targeted for web, mobile, and desktop application testing. The Katalon Studio is their flagship test automation IDE. It also supports API testing for ensuring robust testing for functional as well as several non-functional test scenarios. The API testing solution provided by …
How To Use the eBay API with Python to Chart Product Prices
If you are an online shopaholic, then price comparison is always on top of your mind. But the manual process of doing this exercise is so tedious. You browse through multiple product listings across websites and keep eyeballing the price figures while switching browser tabs. There has to be a better way of doing it. With the help of Price …
How to build a REST API with Node.js (MongoDB & Express) – Part 2
In part one of this post, we covered the nuances of designing and building a REST API. We also covered the basic implementation of a demo REST API for the IPMon service with Node.js. In this post, we will enhance the IPMon implementation by adding a few more components to it. These additions will make it more robust for real-world …
How to build a REST API with Node.js – Part 1
Since its inception in 2009, Node.js has grown leaps and bounds in popularity. In parallel, the community has also contributed libraries and third-party packages. By virtue of its ability to run server-side logic, Node.js enjoys a lot of adoption for implementing REST APIs. In this blog post, we show you how to build a REST API using …
Build a Influencer Search App with Ruby on Rails
Internet search has gone way beyond the traditional web search. Thanks to other mediums of content shared over multiple online platforms, there is a new dimension to search. Influencer search is one such option. It is a smart strategy that helps in content marketing. It lets you find authority content written by influencers, and also gives you a …
How To Build a Text to Speech Service with Python Flask Framework (Speech Recognition)
Do you use voice prompts on your application? If yes, then it is good to have a library of pre-recorded audio files for the prompts. However, if the prompts are not pre-decided, you have to generate them on the fly. With the help of a Text-to-Speech (TTS) API, you can instantly generate audio clips or the audio file of text messages. It is a …
How to Build an Android App with JavaScript
Build an Android App with JavaScript for Generating QR Codes We are back with yet another Android app demo. This time, we take a different approach to building an Android app with JavaScript. Being the de-facto programming language for the web, JavaScript has enjoyed tremendous growth over the years, especially in frontend browser-based …
How to Build a Multi-Screen Android App
With the rising user base of mobile phones, app developers have an ever-increasing reach. Android has the largest share of apps among all the mobile OSes so it is quite evident that app developers would want to target this ecosystem. Earlier we covered a tutorial on how to build a simple Android app with an API. It's time to add some complexity …
