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, …
API Management
Top 8 Best Insomnia API Client Alternatives (2021)
Insomnia is a REST API Client and Design tool. Insomnia Inso is a command-line tool for enabling automated testing and API management. Functional API testing is a main component. Some people don't like how much ram or disk space it uses. Let's review some top Insomnia API Client alternatives in these categories: Installation Type and User …
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 …
Best Practices and Principles for API Design
Introduction APIs are created in ways that redefine and stretch products, services, and organizations. Many businesses have asked themselves questions, like: How can we get more modularity? How do we take advantage of new tools and technology? Are we able to scale our infrastructure? How do we know that we're doing it …
Top 5 Best Postman Alternatives for API Testing
Postman is a collaboration platform for API development. They also support Automated Testing. You can write test scripts for your Postman API requests in JavaScript. But their pricing and documentation are very complex. This creates a need to look at some Postman alternatives for API Testing. It is difficult to fit all the Postman pricing …
API Design
What is API Design? API design is the process of constructing the blueprint for your API. You have the goals, objectives, and hopes for your API on sticky-notes, in emails, or in requirements. Now, you need to pull all that scattered information together into an informative representation of the result. Good API designs anticipate questions and …
Managing and Governing APIs Across Multiple API Gateways
Multiple API Gateways Enterprise API environments have changed and a new set of requirements exists for enterprises seeking to build API platforms. To remain competitive in today’s environment of digital disruption, the next-generation of API platforms requires a horizontal abstraction layer that sits above the increasingly heterogeneous API …