Why Every Large Enterprise Using APIs Needs a Partner Ecosystem Large enterprises face constant pressure to innovate, expand their reach, and deliver exceptional customer experiences in today's hyper-competitive landscape. However, with limited resources and complex internal structures, achieving these goals can take time and effort. Here's …
API Management
Unveiling User Intent: How Search Term Insights Can Empower Your Enterprise API Hub
Are you curious about what your API consumers are searching for? Is your Hub effectively meeting their needs? Enter Rapid's Search Term Insights, a powerful new feature within the Enterprise API Hub's Admin Panel. Search Term Insights offers a window into your users' minds, providing key metrics and insights on how API consumers search for APIs …
Rapid Enterprise API Hub Levels Up Custom Branding, Monetization, and Management in February Release
The RapidAPI team is excited to announce the February 2024 update (version 2024.2) for the Enterprise Hub! This release empowers you to manage your Hub with greater control, enhance your custom branding, and explore new monetization options. Strengthen Your Brand Identity Customizable Email Branding: Rapid now allows you to personalize …
Enhanced Functionality and Improved User Experience with the Rapid API Enterprise Hub November 2023 Release
Rapid API is committed to providing its users with the best possible experience, and the November 2023 release of the Enterprise Hub is a testament to this commitment. This release introduces new and improved features to enhance functionality, streamline user workflows, and provide deeper insights into API usage and performance. For more …
Rapid API Enterprise Hub – September 2023 Release Notes
We're excited to announce the September 2023 Release Notes for the RapidAPI Enterprise Hub! Our team is committed to providing you with the best possible experience with our product, and we appreciate your continued support and feedback. This release includes several new features and improvements to improve your experience with the RapidAPI …
Rapid API Enterprise Hub – August 2023 Release Notes
We hope you enjoyed your summer! We're excited to announce the Rapid API Enterprise Hub release for August 2023! Our dedicated team strives to provide you with the best possible experience with our product, and we're always looking for ways to improve. This release brings many new features, improvements, and bug fixes to the Enterprise Hub, …
What is Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)?
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 …
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, …
Top 8+ Best Mulesoft Alternatives
Data Integration The need for businesses to integrate data has gained momentum in the recent era of data lakes, artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, and online business. However, pulling data from various sources has become a cumbersome task for growing enterprises. Thankfully, there is no shortage of companies that seek to solve …
Top 8 Best Microsoft Azure API Management Alternatives
Introduction The expansion in cloud services available online makes choosing the right products an exhaustive task. Additionally, after choosing one provider, you're often coerced into baking that service into your application. This increases the switching costs associated with cloud services like functions, API management, or storage. As …
Federated Architecture
Introduction Federated architecture has emerged as one of the most commonly accepted patterns of enterprise architecture built on the principles of interoperability, but what does that really mean? For many, the term federated architecture likely evokes thoughts of government structure wherein a collection of states or provinces interact with (and …
What is Apache Kafka?
What is Kafka (Apache Kafka)? Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed event streaming platform kafka.apache.org Kafka was developed at LinkedIn in the early 2010s. The software was soon open-sourced, put through the Apache Incubator, and has grown in use. The platform's website claims that over 80% of Fortune 100 companies use or trust …
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 …
RapidAPI Enterprise Hub 2021.1 Release Now Available
We are excited to announce the release of the latest version of RapidAPI Enterprise Hub. In addition to introducing support for Kafka API types on RapidAPI Marketplace and Enterprise Hub, the latest release includes improved platform extensibility, greater governance, and additional customization options. Key features include: General …
How to Design an API
Introduction This article will take you through how to design a web-based RESTful API with the OpenAPI Specification. Then, we'll have the option to take the file specification and use it to continue to design and collaborate on our API. Furthermore, this article is a sibling article of Best Practices and Principles for API Design. The two pair …