Day: November 23, 2017

This is a story from my latest API Evangelist API security industry guide. My partner ElasticBeam has underwritten my API security research, allowing me to publish a formal PDF of my guide, providing business and technical users with a walk-through of the moving parts, tools, and companies doing interesting things with API security. When I publish each guide, I publish each story here on the blog, helping build awareness around my research–this is a short one on API management.

API management has done an amazing job in helping companies, organizations, institutions, and government agencies make their digital resources more available online in a secure way. Allowing API providers to require developers to sign up, obtain keys, and tokens which need to accompany all API calls. This, along with encryption by default, has gone a long way towards making data, content, and algorithms more accessible, while also being secure. However, many API providers have stopped here, and think their resources are secure when, in reality, there is so much more work to be done. https://goo.gl/JWP8nC #DataIntegration #ML

The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) community recently announced the availability of its first platform release, ONAP “Amsterdam.” This release delivers a unified architecture for end-to-end, closed-loop network automation and creates a premise for service automation and orchestration. As a platinum founding member fully engaged in the ONAP community, Huawei actively invested a great deal of resources in technical architecture, code contribution, and system integration, while working with industry partners for operational transformation and the accelerated construction of an open source ecosystem. http://bit.ly/2jRcNs4 #Huawei #BigData #AI

ICYMI: Our Customer Enablement Manager, Clayton Shaver, recently demoed how to write Formulas in the newly released Cloud Elements 2.0. Here are few tips and instructions to help you use both our original Formula Builder as well as the new Formula-as-a-Resource feature!

What Are Formula Templates?

Let’s start with a little bit of context around what Formulas are and how we use them. Just like we have Elements and instances of Elements in our platform, we also have Formula Templates and instances of Formulas. It’s an important distinction to make when you’re looking at the Cloud Elements platform versus other workflow orchestration tools out there – when you start writing a Formula in Cloud Elements you’re really starting at the template level. So the idea here is that you are creating a generic template that you can instantiate multiple times, to a variety of use cases for workflow automation. https://goo.gl/Hn4fRN #DataIntegration #ML

Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) and Representational State Transfer (REST) are two answers to the same question: how to access web services. The choice initially may seem easy, but at times it can be surprisingly difficult.

SOAP is a standards-based web services access protocol that has been around for a while and enjoys all of the benefits of long-term use. Originally developed by Microsoft, SOAP really isn’t as simple as the acronym would suggest. https://goo.gl/o9RsrF #DataIntegration #ML