The Jakarta EE 10 Platform, Web Profile, and new Core Profile Specifications were released today, introducing new features for building modernized, simplified, and lightweight cloud-native Java applications. “This release is the ‘big one’ that plants Jakarta EE firmly in the modern era of microservices and containers,” said Mike Milinkovich, executive director of the Eclipse Foundation. … continue reading
The AI-powered independent data layer Mapped now has a no-cost, self-service Starter Plan offering for software development and data science teams. With the new plan, software developers and data scientists can automate data extraction and standardization. Mapped simplifies the data integration process into a single API and with the latest launch, enables application developers to … continue reading
Android today announced that it is releasing Privacy Sandbox on Android Developer Preview 5, which includes modifications to the SDK Runtime design to allow reflection API usage and additional published design proposals on FLEDGE services, mediation, and app-to-web measurement. In the SDK Runtime, apps get additional control on runtime-enabled SDK lifecycle events such as when … continue reading
The following is a listing of API management tool providers, along with a brief description of their offerings. Apigee is an API management platform for modernizing IT infrastructure, building microservices and managing applications. The platform was acquired by Google in 2016 and added to the Google Cloud. It includes gateway, security, analytics, developer portal, and … continue reading
The use of APIs has skyrocketed over the years and with organizations using so many different types of APIs on a normal basis, API management has become essential for managing the API attack surface. Fifty-one percent of respondents said that more than half of their organizations’ development effort is spent on APIs—compared with 40% of … continue reading
The API security and observability company, Traceable AI, today announced that its API Security Testing solution in its API Security Platform is now generally available. This allows users to test any API in pre-production for vulnerabilities, accuracy, reliability, and security. According to the company, this release ensures that all APIs are aligned with the highest … continue reading
Astro is a web framework for building fast and content-focused websites that has gained many new features since its original beta announcement in April. The latest release, 1.0, was released earlier this week. It includes new <Image /> and <Picture /> components, MDX support with standard syntax for mixing UI components in Markdown, server output … continue reading
Checkmarx API Security was launched to empower the partnership between the developer and AppSec teams of an organization and is delivered as part of the Checkmarx One application security platform. Because APIs are used to access data and to call application functionality, they are easily exposed but difficult to defend which creates a large and … continue reading
In an attempt to meet companies where they are in their transition to passwordless, Stytch introduced a new password-based authentication solution “rebooted for the modern era.” The idea behind the solution is to create a way for companies to ease into passwordless by not quitting passwords cold turkey since a full 85% of IT and … continue reading
Appsmith, the open-source low code software that helps developers build internal tools announced that it has raised $41 million in Series B funding. With Appsmith, software engineers can build internal and CRUD (create, read, update and delete) type applications quickly. Software engineers can build user interfaces with pre-built components and code business logic by connecting … continue reading
Rafay Systems launched a new open-source software project named Paralus to help keep users safe and applications secure on any Kubernetes environment for free. Paralus offers identity and access management throughout an organization by providing a single login zero-trust K8s solution to grant authorized users seamless and secure access to all clusters with a native … continue reading
Most organizations today use hundreds of applications in their environment, and with that they employ hundreds of APIs to connect these to the necessary web servers. Due to the flow of sensitive information, it’s crucial to manage policies that ensure controls are in place to only authorize appropriate access, as well as actions that can … continue reading
