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 …
API Management
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 …
Top 9 Best API Design Tools
Introduction “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” ― Isaac Newton, The Correspondence Of Isaac Newton There has been an explosion of available tooling that emerged from cloud computing's growth almost a decade ago. Developers pressing forward to do things better, make things cooler, or slick. The benefit for …
API Lifecycle Management
Introduction The more our lives become infused with technology, the more we seek ways to predict the future to solve problems before they manifest. We want to prepare ourselves for the obstacles ahead, so we are not thrown too far off course. The same is true when developing APIs. API publishers want to have a plan in place for their API. …
API Management vs. API Gateway
Introduction It's time to start taking your API seriously. You have plans to expand functionality, change the pricing plan, and implement a new marketing strategy. However, you start to feel lost the more research you do. Reading about new topics, tools, and strategies becomes overwhelming. What happened to your simple APIs? The popularity of …
What is API Governance?
Introduction It can be frustrating to understand API governance when you're new to API management. Many articles discuss the details of one aspect of API governance in-depth, leading the reader farther from the big picture. Thus, their understanding suffers, and they miss the purpose of governance. This article hopes to center your …
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. …
What is API Management?
API Management API Management is a set of processes, policies, principles, and practices that allow owners to gain control over their API. The integrated systems that make-up API management are born out of a large set of questions that project managers, developers, and team leads hope to answer. Is our API secure? How can we handle who …
API Management Tools for API Management Introduction Guide
Management of API entails how businesses monitor application programming interface (API) in development and usage. It ensures that the latest applications integrate with outdated systems to cope and perform without hitches under extensible workloads. In a nutshell, it is a set of protocols that allow a business to run and control API cloud and …
Best API Management Tools & Solutions (2021)
Introduction Web-Based APIs It's been more than twenty years since Roy Fielding released a dissertation that described the REST API architecture1. During the following decade, companies began to see the utility of web APIs in large enterprises. Additionally, in the second half of the decade, tech giants opened large web-based APIs to the public. …