DZone Research: The Future of API Management

To gather insights on the current and future state of API management, we talked to 17 executives who are using APIs in their own organization, as well as helping clients use APIs to accelerate their digital transformation and the development of quality applications. We asked them “What’s the future for API management from your point of view — where do the greatest opportunities lie?”

Here’s what they told us: https://goo.gl/nZ7gsg #DataIntegration #ML

Avoid Being Captain Obvious When Documenting Your API

#ICYDK: I read a lot of API documentation and help review API portals for clients, and one of the most common rookie mistakes I see being made is people pointing out the obvious and writing a bunch of fluffy, meaningless content that gets in the way of people actually using an API. When the obvious API industry stuff is combined with the assumed elements of what a company does, you end up with a meaningless set of obstacles that slows API integration down. Here is the most common thing I read when entering an API portal:

“This is an API for querying data from the [Company X] platform, to get access to JSON from our system, which allows you to get data from our system into yours using the web. You will need to write code to make calls to our APIs documented here on the page below. Our API uses REST to accept request and provide responses in a JSON format.” https://goo.gl/HEogdw #DataIntegration #ML

API Manager WSO2

#ICYMI: Introduction

In this brief article, I am going to demonstrate how easy and cool it is to use the API Manager provided by WSO2. For this tutorial, I am using the API Manager Version 2.5.0.

Installation and Running

Installation is quite straightforward. You can either use the Cloud edition or an on-premise edition. For this demo, I have chosen the binary on-premise version. https://goo.gl/iFFEsd #DataIntegration #ML