Integration platform-as-a-service provider Cloud Elements yesterday announced the availability of Conductor, a no-code solution that enables developers and non-developers alike to create complex API integrations in a point-and-click way. The Conductor tool is part of the Cloud Elements 3.0 platform that, according to the company announcement, “starts by unifying APIs with enhanced capabilities for authentication, … continue reading
APIs are becoming a crucial part of product development, business strategy and scalability, but to successfully streamline APIs, they need to be easily integrated. Cloud Elements has released its 2018 State of API report designed to explore the importance of API integration and look forward to the next year. According to the report, 61 percent … continue reading
An easier way to approach microservices is through the notion of miniservices, according to Ross Garrett, technology evangelist at Cloud Elements. A miniservice takes the pragmatic approach to microservices, but enables users to take a simpler integration technique between services without having to learn new integration patterns. “The purist notion of a microservice follows a … continue reading
By now, the benefits of microservices have been well established. Reliability. Scalability. Productivity. What you don’t hear about are the tradeoffs, challenges and complexities it takes to transition from a monolith to a microservice. All of these smaller components in a microservice may make it easier to develop software, but instead of only having one … continue reading
Amazon has acquired Harvest.ai, a San Diego startup, for US$20 million, according to Business Insider. Harvest.ai has developed technologies that can help find and stop targeted attacks on data, according to Business Insider. With the help of machine learning, the company can learn and detect when an unauthorized person is attempting to gain access to … continue reading
The role of the library is rapidly morphing into the role of the API. As services-based applications continue to become the norm inside enterprises, the next logical step is often to make them available to the outside world. Today, the API has become the preferred method of interaction with third parties and outside developers, not … continue reading
