Growing API complexity on Tech Talks Daily podcast
Jana Frejova recently joined Tech Talks Daily podcast host Neil Hughes to discuss growing enterprise API complexity, how it’s slowing down future growth, and...
API Builder: Twilio SMS Webhook Custom API
Twilio enables software developers to programmatically make and receive phone calls, send and receive text messages, and perform other communication functions using its web...
Integration Builder’s Connector Builder Hooks – Pre Hook Example using Crypto
Axway's Integration Builder has over 200 connectors to various applications such as Salesforce, GitHub, SAP Hana, and many more. However, if a connector doesn't...
Amplify – Change the Team for Discovered APIs Using the CLI
When you set up a discovery agent, you specify a Team for discovered APIs to be registered to. The Team that an API is...
Amplify Central: Add Headers to an Integration Webhook
In a prior post, we discussed secrets for an Integration Webhook Authorization header.
However, what if your Webhook requires a different header, such as an...
Amplify Central – Modify a Resource Using the CLI
The Axway Central CLI can be used to interact with your Central Environment to create, view, and modify various resources such as environments, service...
Amplify Central – Add API traffic badges to your environment description
In a prior blog post, we saw how to add API traffic badges (shields) to your API Service description providing a better user experience...
Amplify Central: Add API Traffic Badges to your API Service Description
In this blog post, we'll demonstrate the openness and extensibility of the Amplify Platform by leveraging Integration Webhooks and Platform APIs. We'll show how...
Amplify Central Integration Webhooks – API Publish Approval
In a prior blog post, we looked at Amplify Central integration webhooks and an external application that detects when a new version of an...
Amplify Central Integration Webhooks – Subscriber Notifier
In a prior blog post, we learned about Amplify Central Integration Webhooks for integrating Amplify Central with external applications.
In this blog post, we'll look...
Amplify Central Integration Webhooks – Basics
Introduction
Integration webhooks provide an "event" based means to monitor activity in Amplify Central in an external application that you create. Coupled with Amplify Central...
Amplify Central Connected Gateway Custom API Subscription Flow – Incident Management Use Case
In a prior post, we looked at an API Subscription Approval flow that integrates with your CRM for a business process-based approval mechanism for...
Manage Amplify Central API Visibility
In this blog post, we'll look at an example of how to manage API visibility in Amplify Central. Refer to the Manage catalog assets...
Amplify Central/Unified Catalog tag-based API Discovery – filter based on tag name
You can use API Gateway tags to control discovery by the Amplify Agents as described here.
While Amplify provides for flexible, robust, and granular control,...
Amplify Central Connected Gateway Custom API Subscription Flow – Integration Basics
This blog post is the second in a series covering custom API subscription approval flows for Amplify Central connected API gateways using agents. You...
Amplify Central Connected Gateway Custom API Subscription Flow – Introduction
This blog post is the first in a series covering custom API subscription approval flows for Amplify Central Connected API Gateways using agents. You...
Tips on using Stoplight for API Design for API Builder
Axway's API Builder makes it easy to create APIs in minutes with a low-code/no-code interface and a powerful flow engine.
A common starting point for...
Four easy ideas for a perfect API Developer Experience
If you are a Developer and use APIs, you certainly have used some API Portals. An API Portal is a website that provides you with all the API definitions (Swagger...
Monolith modernization with APIs and Microservices: What is the strangler pattern and how to...
Any organization that is not starting from scratch has existing IT systems and infrastructure in place. In many cases, this legacy has issues keeping...
API News Roundup – December 2020
Happy Holidays from your API friends! This month we celebrate together virtually with our last API news roundup of the year. Here is your...
What are the Lifecycle Phases of API Products?
The phases of the Product Lifecycle occur in four major stages: Introduction Growth Maturity Decline
These are the starting points for the amount of time...
Steps to deploy API Manager image to AWS Fargate
This guide reports the steps to build an API Manager image in a Docker environment, as well as how to deploy it to AWS Fargate.
Assumptions
It’s...
API News Roundup – November 2020
It's the season to give thanks, and we are extremely grateful for our readers sticking with us through two years of delivering the latest...
API Formats: Why JSON won over XML
The vast majority of APIs today are using the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) to represent the structured data that they are exchanging. While JSON has been...
API governance: What is it and why does it matter?
One topic that often comes up in organizations past a certain size is the question of API governance. This simply reflects the inherent tension...
Building Blocks for HTTP APIs
APIs are Languages, and like with any language, it is important to think about who is using them and how to design the language.
When...
Open Everything: What place is there for energy players?
In recent years, energy has been at the center of debates around social responsibility, but it has also become a major line of reflection...
API is a language!
There are many different ways in which you can answer the seemingly simple question: "What is an API?"
Previous discussions focused on the technical fundamentals ("it...
Designing APIs for extensibility
The main role of APIs is to serve as the connective fabric between different components and capabilities within an organization and across organizations.
One important aspect of...
Managing API versions: The API lifecycle
Managing API versions are part of the bigger picture of API lifecycle management. Most importantly, the goal is to make sure that API consumption...
The 5 API Styles: Understanding REST, OpenAPI, HTTP, gRPC, GraphQL, and Kafka
APIs are languages that allow applications to exchange information. Today, there are many possible technologies that can be used to design and implement APIs....
The AMPLIFY Platform’s Unified Catalog and API Portal
Axway AMPLIFY™ provides both the SaaS-based Unified Catalog that is a part of the AMPLIFY platform management layer (widely known as AMPLIFY™ Central) and a CMS-based consumer-facing API Portal that can...
API Portal 2020 New Features
In May 2020, we released the second "smaller" update of AMPLIFY™ API Management within a two-month update cycle conceived under the "One Version" initiative...
API Gateway: XSLT Transformation
Enterprises who are providing SOAP-based web services or REST APIs returning XML payloads to the consuming applications often need the ability to transform XML...
How is the API Gateway being used?
Data-driven decisions are key to ensure we, as a company, make informed choices to find the right direction on the compass of success. As...
Axway API Management CLI
I'm pleased to share API Manager CLI utility which could be helpful for engineers working with the Axway API Gateway Manager. This tool is...
API Management and architecture deployment
API Management architecture and deployment is important for customers and their API journey. Moving forward to determine the path for a successful, scalable, and...
API Gateway and API Manager documentation are now open source!
We are very excited to announce the availability of the latest version of API Gateway and API Manager documentation in our open-source docs-as-code workflow!...
Enabling Bulk Sync for Internal APIs
In my previous blog Setting up Bulk Sync with Integration Builder, I talked about how to set up bulk sync in between HubSpot and...
Does AMPLIFY Central include an API Gateway?
There has been some confusion about the architecture of AMPLIFY Central. We’ll try to shed some more light on AMPLIFY Central and answer some...
API Gateway: Authentication using LDAP
When using an API Gateway for Authentication with LDAP, there are many steps to take:
Authentication using LDAP -- high-level steps:
1. Configure LDAP Server
2. Create...
Axway AMPLIFY IoT Device Incident Management Demo Breakdown: Part 2
In part 1 of this series, I described an overview of the IoT Device Incident Management demo. In part 2, we'll look at the...
Best Practices for AMPLIFY Organization Management
The following best practices provide guidelines on how to manage your AMPLIFY™ Platform organization(s). These best practices provide an excellent starting point to help...
AMPLIFY Platform Demo Series, Part 16: Monitoring your API traffic
Hello again from our AMPLIFY demo blog series, the go-to source for mastering the basics of Axway’s AMPLIFY™ Platform! Thanks to our team of...
Getting started with Syncplicity REST APIs: Part 4
Welcome to Part 4 of my "Getting Started" guide for the Syncplicity REST APIs. If you're reading this, then you should have already read...
Stay healthy at Axway: The Hackathon project
Staying healthy is something we don’t take lightly. Here at Axway, we work hard to address problems with our solutions. For Axway’s internal hackathon,...
Unified Catalog just got more awesome! Part 1: Integration with Microsoft Azure
For a while now we have been advertising how you could leverage the v7 Manager and AWS discovery agents publish your APIs to the environment grouping view...
Solace and Axway Part 5 | Streams v2 Tech Preview
In my first three posts about Axway and Solace, I showed you how Axway could enhance messages to integrate with Solace via their JMS...
Axway AMPLIFY™ Central Order Signing
My team: White Glove Treatment, submitted our hack called "Central Order Signing" as a part of the recently completed Axway Hackathon 2020.
It meets the...
How we built FiTogether
While everyone is getting used to working remotely, staying cautious and testing our preparation to pass this phase at Axway, The Axway Griffin Innovation...
Getting started with Syncplicity REST APIs: Part 3
Welcome to part 3 of my "Getting Started" guide for the Syncplicity REST APIs.
You will have most likely read and attempted to implement the...
Using the Syncplicity Events API to get real-time visibility of events
The recently available Syncplicity Events API gives administrators increased visibility of activities within Syncplicity. It provides valuable additional auditing and monitoring capabilities and allows...
You are cleared for takeoff with AMPLIFY Central: Your API Traffic Control Tower
APIs are the lifeblood of software development today, allowing information to be shared at lightning speeds between hundreds of different entities.
This allows for rapid...
Journey to the Cloud – Cloud patterns
When I first started programming professionally in the mid-90s, the book (yes, made from trees) that was on everyone's desk was “Design Patterns” by...
Axway + Solace Part 3: Axway APIM + the Solace JMS Client
As mentioned in part two of this blog series, modernizing legacy applications to integrate with a modern Event-Driven architecture can be difficult. Digital Evolution by...
Axway + Solace Part 2: Axway API Gateway + the Solace REST Client
Perhaps the biggest barrier to adopting an Event-Driven architecture is modernizing legacy applications. Despite the value of this transformation, legacy applications are hard to...
Getting started with Syncplicity REST APIs: Part 2
You may have read part 1 of my series, “Getting started with Syncplicity REST APIs” and now want to try some real API calls....
Axway + Solace Part 1: Getting Started with Solace
This is the first in a series of blog posts detailing Axway's integration with Solace PubSub+ Event Broker. In this post, I explore configuring...
Getting started with Syncplicity REST APIs: Part 1
Getting started with the Syncplicity REST APIs is simple. I created this “cheat sheet” so that you can get started quickly. You can begin...
Use API Builder to Expose APIs from a Javascript SDK
Axway's API Builder provides several means of creating APIs and Microservices, including Data Connectors for connecting to databases and a Swagger flow-node and a...
Why Kafka often underpins modern event-driven architecture
The purpose of this post is to highlight the different Kafka capabilities which explain its wide adoption in the industry and also attracted the...
AMPLIFY Platform Demo Series, Part 15: Using an application to control access to API
Hello again from our AMPLIFY demo blog series, the go-to source for mastering the basics of Axway’s AMPLIFY™ Platform! Special thanks to our team...
What you need to know about AMPLIFY Streams
AMPLIFY™ Streams SaaS is an event-driven proxy that can sit in front of an existing JSON API to provide a reach reactive experience in...
Connecting Evernote to Syncplicity via AMPLIFY Application Integration
This article demonstrates what I learned while rapidly creating a proof of concept to publish and connect Evernote to Syncplicity via AMPLIFY Application Integration. I...
Integration Builder Flow as a Resource (FaaR), Part 2: Build an Aggregate API
In a prior blog post, we described how to set up an Integration Builder FaaR (Flow as a Resource). This allows us to use...
Accelerating Helm and Kubernetes adoption
Axway is moving at full speed with optimizing AMPLIFY™ API Management deployment in Kubernetes. Vincent O’Brien shared a sample Helm chart for API Management...
Integrating Axway Application Integration and Slack
This blog entry is part two of a three-part series where we will ultimately build a Cloud to Cloud (C2C) integration between Service Now...
Axway AMPLIFY IoT Device Incident Management Demo Breakdown – Part 1
Imagine if your insulin pump could notify you when the battery level drops so you can proactively service the pump and avoid personal injury....
AMPLIFY Platform Demo Series, Part 10: Introduction to the Unified Catalog of the AMPLIFY...
Happy New Year from our AMPLIFY demo blog series, the go-to source for mastering the basics of Axway’s AMPLIFY Platform! Special thanks to our...
Introducing additional APIs for Syncplicity
As many of you know, Syncplicity has rich REST APIs to give access to content, as well as to administrative capabilities. My previous blog...
How To Run An API Builder Microservice On Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)
Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) provides a managed environment for deploying, managing and scaling your containerized applications using Google infrastructure. The environment GKE provides consists...
🚨 Who Broke The Build?? A Look at Continuous Integration and Build Servers
Every day, emails go out to development teams around the world, letting teams know that someone has broken the build.
But what does it mean...
Axway Holiday App: A Christmas Integration Story
`Twas the month before Christmas, when all through Axway
Making AMPLIFY awesome, so busy were they.
The holiday party was planned with such care
In hopes that...
AMPLIFY Platform Demo Series, Part 8: Introduction to AMPLIFY Flow Central
Welcome back to the latest installment of our AMPLIFY™ blog series, the go-to source for mastering the basics of Axway’s AMPLIFY Platform. Thanks to our...
Convert between Swagger 2.0 and OAS 3.0–with an API!
Interoperability and data exchange rely on Open Standards—which has been Swagger for the longest time in the API world. With OAS 3.0 becoming more prominent, it's a good opportunity...
AMPLIFY Platform Demo Series, Part 7: How to automatically create APIs from your databases...
Greetings again from our AMPLIFY demo blog series, the go-to source for mastering the basics of Axway’s AMPLIFY Platform. Thanks to our team of...
AMPLIFY Platform Demo Series, Part 6: Introduction to API Builder
Welcome back to our AMPLIFY demo blog series, your one-stop-shop to learning the basics of Axway’s AMPLIFY™ Platform. Thanks to our team of skilled...
How to run an API Builder Microservice in OpenShift – Part 1
In this blog post, we'll describe how to run an API Builder Microservice in OpenShift, a comprehensive enterprise-grade application platform, built for containers with...
Categorize your APIs: Tips and Tricks
There are many reasons it makes sense to split up or categorize your APIs into different sections in the API Portal to improve the...
Create an Integration Builder Connector to an API Builder Microservice
In this blog post, we'll describe how to create an Integration Builder connector to an API Builder Microservice. We'll create an API Builder project,...
Understand your API security need: OAuth or OpenID Connect?
OAuth and OpenID Connect are two common topics on API security space. However, there is still confusion usage of these protocols on the internet....
Initial setup for a HIP ecosystem
Axway's Australia dives into a description of our initial setup for our HIP ecosystem. This ecosystem is shown at a high level in the diagram below,...
AMPLIFY Central Mesh Governance is Here…But, What’s a Service Mesh?
AMPLIFY Central Mesh Governance is available in beta. All new organizations that join the AMPLIFY platform are automatically enrolled in the public beta program...
API Builder v3 vs v4
Over a year ago, we launched API Builder 4 (Standalone). Our goal with this new version was to allow users the freedom to deploy...
How to run an API Builder Microservice on Azure Container Instances
You can use Azure Container Instances to run serverless Docker containers in Azure with simplicity and speed. Deploy an application to a container instance...
Building (Stateless) services using distributed data structures
Internet-scale services are built of Microservices. While we are getting ready to approach our customers with Service Mesh, I thought it's important to get...
ANNOUNCEMENT: The new Support APIs are here
We are happy to announce that our new Support Portal APIs are now available.
Developers on the Axway AMPLIFY™ platform can use this API to...
Creating Custom Connectors with AMPLIFY, Part 2: Configure Custom Connectors
Are you at all curious about what it takes to create custom integrations between your apps and external cloud services using AMPLIFY Application Integration,...
Automatic deployment of an API Management demonstration on Azure–Part 1: Overview
Since the version 7.5.3, Axway has been working hard to provide its API Management product in container mode, as well as tools to accelerate...
API for Cache Management
Out of the box, API Gateway doesn’t have a filter to create, read, update and delete content of the cache. Specially clearing the cache...
API Builder Standalone Multi Container Application Using Kubernetes – Part 2
In this blog post we'll continue from Part 1. We'll deploy a two container application to Kubernetes (Minikube). The two containers will be an...
How to Create an OpenCage Geocode Connector in Integration Builder – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we saw how easy it was to quickly create an Integration Builder Connector by importing a swagger file...
Manually Start an Integration Builder Flow to HubSpot and Salesforce
Axway AMPLIFY Integration Builder flows are used to orchestrate the execution of Connectors, APIs and business logic. A flow can be triggered automatically or...
AMPLIFY Mobile Backend Services and the cURL Firehose
I was testing AMPLIFY Mobile Backend Services and pumped gigabytes of data into it using cURL. Here are some observations – and how you...
APIs, Connectors and Proxies, Oh My!
The AMPLIFY Platform provides several methods for easily connecting to, cataloging, and consuming existing services. Whether you are looking at a cloud service, third-party...
Create an API Builder Multi-Container Application Using Kubernetes – Part 1
In this blog post, we'll replicate the simple API Builder + MongoDB multi-container application described in the Create an API Builder Multi-Container Application Using...
From the trenches: A real-life experience in DevOps, Agile, CI/CD and containerization
Earlier this year, we decided to do a major update to the Axway Managed Cloud offering for API Management. This is a managed service...
The importance of API Design
The design and construction of a building is a good analogy to exemplify the importance of API Design. A functional building that meets the...
Mastering the API lifecycle – Part 4 | Sharing APIs with a Catalog
After importing and securing your APIs, you can easily share them with the world using the AMPLIFY Catalog – a place where partners, developers, and...
Mastering the API Lifecycle – Part 3 | Enhancing Observability
AMPLIFY Central allows you to observe your API traffic using a variety of helpful filters. You can even easily dive down into each individual...
Integration Builder – Manually Triggered Flow Example
In prior blog posts, we described how to trigger an Integration Builder flow from a Connector Event and from a Connector Request. In this...
Mastering the API Lifecycle – Part 2 | Securing your API
In Part 1 of this series, we learned how easy it is to design a custom API using tools like https://stoplight.io and import it...
API Gateway Helm Chart
As with many Kubernetes solutions, we use Helm to manage the deployment of the API Gateway infrastructure. Helm is a very powerful tool that...
Deploying AMPLIFY API Gateway in Kubernetes with Helm Charts
To begin this story, I want to say it’s amazing how complex an enterprise-grade application and the flow of data can be – even...
Mastering the API lifecycle – Part 1 | Design an API
AMPLIFY Central provides security and monitoring tools for your APIs.
In this video, see how easy it is to design a custom API using tools...
Circuit Breaker Policy for API Gateway
In June, Axway hosted our first ever API Management customer-facing hackathon in Northern Virginia. It was a great event that enabled some of our...
API Management Hackathon – Superheroes in Action
It all started with a witty remark
The idea struck like a bolt of lightning during the Customer Advisory Board (CAB) meeting at Axway’s Imagine...
How to Stream your APIs in Minutes
We are pleased to announce Axway AMPLIFY Streams, an event-driven API streaming SaaS offering.
Streams are the result of Axway’s recent acquisition of Streamdata.io. Streams...
How to Create an OpenCage Geocode Connector in AMPLIFY Integration Builder – Part 1
Axway AMPLIFY Integration Builder has over 150 connectors available for you to use in your integrations. However, there are times when you will want...
Integration Builder – Connector Request Triggered Flow Example
Often, Integration Builder flows are triggered by an event received from an Integration Builder connector based on polling or a webhook from a change...
VIDEO: Configure API Portal – Public API Mode Part 3
This video is the third in a series. So, be sure to watch these parts first: Part 1 ...
AMPLIFY Update: Usage Notifications for Cloud Services
In today's AMPLIFY platform update, we are introducing usage notifications for AMPLIFY cloud services, so that organizations have better visibility into usage and can budget...
VIDEO: Configure API Portal – Public API Mode Part 2
This video is a follow up to Part 1. So, if you haven't seen it yet, watch Part 1 here first.
Then, watch this video to learn...
VIDEO: Configure API Portal – Public API Mode Part 1
API Portal is a tool that allows you to easily promote APIs and enables organizations to foster innovative culture.
Watch this video to learn how...
Configuring the Ground: How to Install and Configure an API Builder Data Connector
API Builder is a key component of the Axway AMPLIFY Platform. You can use API Builder to create API Microservices using an API First...
New User Experience on the AMPLIFY™ Platform
Not long ago, on April 2, we launched version 6.0.0 of the AMPLIFY Platform with a brand-new service offering - Application Integration - that combines...
Putting It All Together with AMPLIFY: Mobile App + APIs
Companies around the world use Axway’s development tools to build incredible mobile apps, from the budding developers in the Code to Inspire program in...
How to Use Policy Studio on a Mac
Erik Nord is Axway’s API Practice Lead in North America. For the last six years, he has specialized in API Management using technologies like...
How to Connect your App to Microsoft Azure Active Directory with AMPLIFY API Management
There are different scenarios in which you might want to integrate with Microsoft Azure Active Directory (AD): You want to let...
Create an API Builder Multi-Container Application Using Docker – Part 2
In Part 1 of this blog series, we discussed how to stand up a multi-container application using Docker, API Builder, and MongoDB.
In this blog...
Get Started with AMPLIFY Central – Secure an API
Watch this video to learn how to secure an API in AMPLIFY Central using an API key as an example. You'll learn how to...
Create an API Builder Multi-Container Application Using Docker – Part 1
The blog post, API Builder 4.0 Standalone – From Zero to Dockerized Microservice, shows how easy it is to use API Builder Standalone to...
API Builder: A simple CI/CD implementation – Part 2
In this post, we'll cover the complete CI/CD process to automate the build of an API Builder project and run it as a Docker...
Get Started with AMPLIFY Central – Register an API
Watch this video to learn how to register an API as an API proxy in AMPLIFY Central using the Star Wars API as an...
How to Implement OAuth with PKCE using Okta & API Management
If you are building a mobile application, then the authorization code flow with a Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE) is the recommended method for controlling...
AMPLIFY Central Fundamental Concepts – API Proxy
Watch this video to learn what an API proxy is and how API proxies help you manage your APIs in API Central.
This video is...
The AMPLIFY™ platform – it’s HIP, it’s big, it’s here!
Axway is pleased to announce the next major release of the AMPLIFY platform. (Read the Axway AMPLIFY Integration announcement here.) Apart from a refresh...
API Builder Tutorial Series Ch. 5: What is a Flow and Flownode?
The fifth installment of our API Builder Tutorial series takes a deep dive on what is a Flow, Flownode, and how they interact with...
Faster Integration. Faster Innovation. Axway AMPLIFY Platform Update
Today marks a milestone in the journey of Axway's AMPLIFY Hybrid Integration Platform. This release is the result of hard work by the whole...
Axway AMPLIFY Application Integration Announcement
To succeed in digital transformation goals, businesses need to integrate more systems, people and things than ever before. Businesses today require more touch points...
How to Create Flow-Nodes for API Builder with Axway Flow SDK
API Builder is tool that enables developers to rapidly create APIs and microservices with a low-code/no-code approach. API Builder achieves this by enabling you...
API Builder: A simple CI/CD implementation – Part 1
In this blog post, we'll walk through the steps for how to easily implement a CI/CD pipeline with stages that automatically build, run, and test an...
How to Run your API Builder Standalone Docker Image on AWS Fargate
In my last blog post on Running API Builder 4.0 Docker Images on AWS EC2, we described how to set up multiple AWS EC2...
From Database to Microservice – Part 1
API Builder Standalone is a tool that enables developers to rapidly create microservices with a low-code/no-code approach. One of the ways API Builder achieves...
How to Run your API Builder Standalone Docker Image on AWS EC2 with High...
This guide describes how to run your API Builder 4.0 Docker image on AWS EC2 with high availability by creating two instances in two...
How to Connect to External Swagger Services with API Builder
Calling Google Cloud Translation service
API Builder is tool that enables developers to rapidly create APIs and microservices with a low-code/no-code approach. API Builder achieves...
How to Run your API Builder Docker Image on AWS EC2
This guide describes how to run your API Builder Standalone Docker image on an AWS EC2 instance. This is suitable for test and development...
New Release: API Builder Standalone with Credential Management
Today, we are happy to announce a new release of API Builder Standalone that has built-in credential management for external services. API Builder can manage OAuth 2.0 access...
Running API Builder on Raspberry Pi Cluster using Docker Swarm – Part 3
In Part 2 of this series, I showed how I was able to run API Builder on RasPi. In Part 3, I'm going to...
Over-Engineering Trivial Tasks Using AMPLIFY API Builder and Amazon Alexa
Are you like me and tired of doing anything with your hands? I mean that’s so 2015. Since the advent of Amazon’s Alexa (echo)...
Running API Builder on Raspberry Pi Cluster using Docker Swarm – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, I gave a quick overview of the Raspberry Pi cluster configuration and how Docker Swarm is setup. This post provides the details on how to...
Debrief of AMPLIFY Medical Adherence Demo
Last week, we posted a video and blog walk thru for our Axway AMPLIFY Medication Adherence Demonstration.
One of the great things about this illustration...
Axway AMPLIFY Medical Adherence Demo
Medication adherence is defined as the degree to which a patient correctly follows medical advice. Most commonly, it refers to medication or drug compliance....
Running API Builder on Raspberry Pi Cluster using Docker Swarm – Part 1
Raspberry Pi Cluster
A cluster is a group of computers performing the same task, operating as a single system. Although Raspberry Pi's are pretty incredible...
API Builder Environment Variables
An environment variable is a dynamic-named value that can affect the way running processes will behave on a computer. Since API Builder is used to create...
API Builder Standalone: Extend Flow Editor with Template Plugin
A template engine enhances a developer's ability to transform a given data into a different format with minimal coding. By default, the API Builder...
API Builder: Geocode Your API Requests
API Builder provides a dashboard for viewing your API Analytics. An example is show below.
The analytics provide useful information, such as which API was called, its...
How to Publish an API Builder Standalone App to Azure
I was playing with our new AMPLIFY API Builder Standalone release and decided to cook up an automation recipe.
Here are the ingredients – make...
API Builder Tutorial Series Ch. 4: Model Composition & Parallel Flows
The fourth installment of our API Builder Tutorial series walks through how to use API Builder's flow editor to compose models and leverage the...
Microgateway Blog Series, Part 5: Avengers Assemble – MicroGateway & API Gateway…
As a continuation from my previous blog entry of comparing Istio to Ant-Man, I’d like to continue with the superhero theme to provide a...
API Builder 4.0 Standalone – From Zero to Dockerized Microservice
In this blog post, we'll discuss how to use API Builder Standalone to go from zero to a Dockerized API Builder service that can...
Build Streaming APIs with AMPLIFY API Management and Streamdata
With streaming APIs, it's possible to push relevant updates to client devices from the server, which offers a couple of interesting benefits for large,...
Microgateway Blog Series, Part 4: Istio – Is it a bird?…
“It’s a bird. It’s a plane. It’s Super...” No, wait it’s Istio! If you squint, you can just make it out! What is Istio?...
AMPLIFY API Builder Standalone is Here!
Today, organizations need to unleash the data trapped in databases, legacy systems and cloud services, so they can combine and assemble this data to...
API Builder and MQTT for IoT – Part 2
In Part 1, we introduced MQTT for IOT and how API Builder can leverage MQTT to communicate with IOT devices. In this blog post,...
Microgateway Blog Series, Part 3: Whodunit?
When things break in a microservice architecture, determining the root cause is challenging- where did it fail and why? There are so many things...
3 Skills Developers Need for an API-Driven World
Trying to stand out from the crowd when looking for a software developer job can be a daunting task. The key is to not...
API Builder Tutorial Series Ch. 3: API First Development
The third installment in our API Builder Tutorial Series walks through how to use API Builder's API First development. Watch below to learn how...
Microgateway Blog Series, Part 2: Edge to Internal
The season finale for Game of Thrones (GoT) seems a long way off. So, in this entry, let’s keep the hype going by equating...
Introducing the AMPLIFY Developer Portal
Axway's new AMPLIFY Developer Portal is here!
The new Developer Portal brings our mobile app developer users and API developer users to one place to...
Microgateway Blog Series, Part 1 – Traffic Management
In this series of blog posts, we explain the valuable role the Microgateway plays in adopting a microservice architecture.
A single microservice is a simple...
API Builder Tutorial Series Ch. 2: Model First Development
The second installment in our API Builder Tutorial Series walks through how to use API Builder’s Model First development. Watch below to learn how...
API Builder and MQTT for IoT – Part 1
MQTT is a machine-to-machine (M2M)/Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity protocol and is the de facto communication protocol for IoT. While you could use HTTP(S)...
API Builder Tutorial Series Ch. 1: Setup & Tour
Eager to incorporate API Builder into your workflow, but not sure how to get started? This video demonstrates how to install API Builder and...
API Builder 3.0: API First Simple Parameter Example
In part 1 of this blog post series, we introduced the two main new features of API Builder 3.0, namely API First API development...
Introducing API Builder 3.0 with API First & Flow Editor
Prior to API Builder 3.0, API's were tied to models exposed by connectors. While this is a powerful and easy way to expose data...
5 Strategies for Making the Switch from Monolith to Microservices
Once you’ve decided microservices are right for your organization, what’s next? While refactoring your application is a worthwhile decision, it is a long-term investment...
Introducing an All New Axway Marketplace
The past few months have brought exciting changes to the Axway Marketplace, Axway’s platform for high-quality free, open-source, and paid development assets. As we...
WATCH: Building Bots and Alexa Skills with API Builder
In this video from our Nov 16th SPARK event, Leor Brenman demonstrates the following: How to use API Builder to build...
ArrowDB Connector Dev & Production Environments
When you create an API Builder project you will find that the ArrowDB Connector is installed in your project. If you don't find it...
Developing Native APIs with Hyperloop
A little over a year ago, we rolled out Hyperloop to eliminate the need for OS-specific modules so that every single native API on...
API Builder Spreadsheet Import
Currently API Builder does not provide a means of importing data into a model from a spreadsheet. For example, if you have an ArrowDB...
Deciding if Microservices are Right for You
Microservices are taking the development world by storm, greatly accelerating an organization’s agility and deployment cycle. To date, some of the world’s largest organizations...
Tech Tutorial: API Builder
In this Tech Tutorial, Principal Architect Darren Mason provides a hands-on introduction to API Builder (formerly Arrow). The video highlights how to model data...
Refreshed Axway Appcelerator
As many of you may have observed, we have been in the process of rebranding and renaming our offering. Our new brand – Axway...
API Builder: Facebook Chatbot Example
In a prior post, we described how to use API Builder to implement a Twitter Bot that posted tweets, retweeted and also followed anyone...
API Builder: Twitter Bot Example
A bot is a device or piece of software that can execute commands, reply to messages, or perform routine tasks, such as online searches,...
Using Faker for Mock Data
In a prior post, we discussed how to use mock data for your API. This post describes how to use faker in an API...
Arrow Builder Debugging Tip – ngrok Secure Tunnel to localhost
During the development of Arrow Builder APIs, you are often running and debugging your Arrow Builder project locally on your machine prior to publishing....
Host Your Alexa Skill Service on AMPLIFY using API Builder, Part 2
In my Part 1 post, I described how easy it is to host an Alexa Skill Service on AMPLIFY using API Builder. I used...
Host Your Alexa Skill Service on AMPLIFY using API Builder, Part 1
Amazon Alexa Skills are comprised of two components, the Amazon Alexa Skill Interface hosted on Amazon and the Skill Service, which can be hosted...
Arrow Builder API Development with Cloud9
The Arrow Builder API development flow is to develop, run and test your APIs on your local machine using your favorite text editor and...
Arrow Composite Model POST
Currently in Arrow Builder, create (e.g. POST), is not supported for Composite models. However, using a pre-block we can support the POST (and UPDATE)...
ArrowDB Mock Data and Data Import
So you've created your Arrow Builder project and created ArrowDB models. Arrow has automatically created all your APIs and even documented them for you....
Using an Arrow API Mockup to Remove Development Bottlenecks
Your mobile app developers are starting a project and need access to an API. However, you're not ready to develop the API. Perhaps the...
Arrow Builder Performance Monitoring with New Relic
Appcelerator provides a number of capabilities for monitoring your Arrow applications. These are accessible from the Dashboard and documented here. However, what if you...
Arrow Builder Custom Fields
In prior blog posts and videos we discussed how to use Arrow Builder to create payload-optimized models & APIs and composite models & APIs...
Microservices Q&A: Today and Tomorrow
We sat down with Tony Pujals, Director of Cloud Engineering at Appcelerator, to better understand the microservices trend and where it is headed. In...
Microservices Q&A: Clearing the Hurdles
We sat down with Tony Pujals, Director of Cloud Engineering at Appcelerator, to better understand the microservices trend and where it is headed. In...
Microservices Q&A: Origins and Drivers
When speaking with Tony Pujals, Director of Cloud Engineering at Appcelerator, his enthusiasm about microservices—along with APIs, distributed systems and scalable cloud architecture—is...
Arrow Builder API Server Sizing using Load Testing
So, you've designed and tested your Arrow Builder Project (APIs) and are ready to publish it. What size container should you choose? Small, Medium,...
Five Things You Need To Know About Microservices
Backend technology is constantly evolving as user demands shift and the mobile landscape advances. We once relied on tools like PaaS and IaaS, which...
Arrow API Swagger Interface
When you create Arrow Builder APIs, the Arrow Admin Console displays your automatically-generated API docs in the API Docs tab as described here. An...
Appcelerator Arrow Client-Side SDK Example
This post provides a simple step-by-step example of generating and utilizing the Arrow Client-Side SDK for an Arrow application.
For this example, I will utilize...
Featured Video: The Complete API Lifecycle with Arrow and API Management
In this featured video Leor Brenman demonstrates how to build and run microservices and optimized APIs using Appcelerator Arrow and then secure and manage...
Arrow Encryption for Data in Transit
Appcelerator mobile apps use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) for encrypting and decrypting all data transmitted and received by the device. However, for certain types...
