Amplify Integration Builder Multi Trigger Flow
While you can easily change a flow's trigger type, say, from manual to schedule, flows can only have a single trigger type active at...
Viewing APIs through a business lens with Axway at API World 2021
Axway is proud to be an official sponsor of API World, which took place virtually this year from October 26–28. Thousands of global technical...
Amplify Central Agent Status Change Notifier
Amplify Central agents provide a powerful and seamless means to synchronize APIs in your API Gateways, whether they be the Axway Amplify API Gateway...
Get better APIs with Conway’s Law
Mel Conway formulated his famous law in 1967 and it was a reflection on how large organizations work and produce results. The "official version"...
How to create a Service Account in order to make Axway Amplify Platform API...
Client Secret-based Amplify Service accounts are required in order to make Axway Amplify Platform API calls to do things like approving a Unified Catalog...
What is HTTP/3 and what does it mean for APIs?
The majority of APIs today are based on the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). HTTP has been around for a very long time, in computer...
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 complexity holds enterprises back
Over the last couple of years, we’ve noticed a new phenomenon. We started calling it “API complexity.”
Until recently, APIs were considered a hot new...
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...
Enterprise success story and its challenges
A successful enterprise is like a productive human being. A flourishing human (for whatever success means to each of us) starts their life knowing...
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...
Consuming APIs and IPAs is not that different
Beer can be brewed to perfection, but it’s up to the consumer to enjoy the golden liquid up to its very last sip. The...
Hypermedia APIs: What are they and what can they do for you?
Like anything in life, APIs come in different "flavors." In the case of APIs, these are called "API Styles," and there are five major...
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...
API marketplaces + Catalogs are all about innovation
Your API strategy stands little chance of adoption if you don't have an API Catalog. But it's more than a registry — built the...
How to make five billion dollars with APIs: API Monetization at eBay
API Monetization is on everybody's mind: How can I make money with APIs? How can I justify my investments in API-related activities?
But all too often, direct...
What is API First and how can I leverage it to add business value...
There is a lot of confusion around "What is API First," how is it different from "API First Design," and how all this fits...
GS1 Digital Link: An API for Every Thing
Everybody "knows" GS1 because it's the organization that standardizes the EAN/UPC barcodes that we find on pretty much every product that we buy in our supermarkets and...
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,...
An MFT solution that meets the needs of the business
If you need to move files inside or outside your organization, using a Managed File Transfer (MFT) solution will undoubtedly add value.
There are many...
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...
What are API Rate Limits?
API Rate Limiting is simply controlling how many requests or calls an API consumer can make to your API. You may have experienced something...
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...
Top 10 API trends for 2021
2021 Digital Transformation Trends are a key indicator for the future of APIs. APIs run the world and 2020 saw a huge increase in...
From APIs to value: The future of API Portals
APIs are the fundamental building blocks of Digital Transformation: They expose capabilities, and when used in the context of an API-First Strategy they also demand that everything...
How fit is your API?
How fit do you need to be?
How fit does your API need to be? It may not be the case that your API needs...
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...
API News Roundup – January 2021
As we bid farewell to 2020, we welcome the first API news roundup of 2021. Celebrate the new year with us as we look...
API Archaeology: Guiding the API Journey
Part of the Axway Catalyst mission is to help organizations on their API Journey. As part of this mission, we speak to many organizations in various stages...
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...
An API is a promise
What is an API? This is an interesting question that can be answered on many levels. There certainly is a technical side to it, then...
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 News Roundup – October 2020
As the seasons change, temperatures are getting cooler, but API news stories are getting hotter. This month we continue to share the latest API...
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...
API News Roundup – September 2020
We have a new format for this month's API news roundup. Now you can see the latest API headlines by category, including healthcare, financial,...
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...
Breaking down The Forrester Wave™: API Management Solutions, Q3 2020
With the current climate, with the current uncertainty… we have rocketed 10 years ahead. Previously, the need for innovation was often mistakenly seen as...
Transhumanism: The next API will be human
Save this date in your calendars: on August 28, 2020, Elon Musk will give a press conference to present Neuralink's latest developments.
This announcement takes...
API News Roundup – August 2020
Summer is coming to an end, and that means back to school. So we are taking you back to school with our monthly API...
API growth: Why and how APIs are growing in the time of COVID
With a pandemic that has disrupted businesses globally, APIs are being used for new services that are being consumed daily. With that comes the...
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....
API identity: Is my API gold or blue?
You all remember the photo of the dress which went viral on the internet a couple of years ago. Viewers of the photo disagreed...
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...
API News Roundup – July 2020
Summer is in full swing and it's time to take a vacation! But we are not taking a break from our monthly API news...
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...
API News Roundup – June 2020
Summer is here! Although much of the world remains behind closed doors, we are celebrating warmer weather and sunnier days. What is also hot...
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...
API News Roundup – May 2020
As businesses slowly reopen in cities around the world, we turn our attention to how APIs are helping companies transition to a new reality....
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...
Monetization: Approaching products as API Design Wins
Think of when you went to an arcade, popped in a token to play that classic pinball machine. Perhaps you play Animal Farm on...
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...
That’s how you get ants — communication, it’s not all talk!
When we speak to one another, we do so intending to convey information, just not always the information we intend.
That's right, sometimes the message...
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....
API News Roundup – April 2020
The world is adjusting to a new normal, and for many, APIs are helping ease that transformation. This month, we review the top API...
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...
Unleash your AI with APIs
Industries are focusing more on choosing Artificial Intelligence thanks in part to its exponential benefits. With expectations on the return of new products, a significant competitive advantage, or increased customer...
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...
API News Roundup – March 2020
Recent global events have caused March to prove a very news-heavy month all around, and tech stories are no exception. Here is a look...
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...
API Product Culture: Ways to Win
I worked in a fantastic API Product Culture on an API team that truly served our stakeholders with insight, empathy and a thoughtful approach....
What is a reverse proxy server?
A reverse proxy server is a server that is located behind the firewall in a private network. This helps facilitate and guide client requests to an appropriate back-end server. These capabilities deliver an...
How API Design and ecosystems drive the insurance experience
Minimizing risk is lucrative. The better the experience, the more members of the ecosystem will know when and how to interact in ways that...
API News Roundup – February 2020
It's the season of love. I hope you had a restful holiday and eventful Valentine's Day. We are back with this month's API headlines,...
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...
API News Roundup – January 2020
Happy New Year! My resolution this year is to give you more great API news content every month. So without further ado, here is...
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...
Product Bundling with APIs to solve your company’s digital identity crisis
HELP! It's a new decade and your organization may have woken up to what can only be called a "digital identity crisis."
Who are we...
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...
Should I monetize my APIs?
API Monetization consists of tracking API Usage on a per-customer basis, enforcing usage plan quotas, and informing back-end billing systems of usage levels. This...
API News Roundup – December 2019
The holidays are almost here, but we are not taking a break from our monthly API news roundup. So before you deck the halls,...
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...
How to create an OpenCage Geocode Connector in Axway’s Integration Builder – Part 3:...
In Part 2 of this series, we used Integration Builder to enhance and customize our Geocode API for our particular needs and in this...
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,...
API News Roundup – November 2019
November is the month for giving thanks and self-reflection. This month we are reflecting on some of the great API news stories that are...
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....
Demystifying APIs Part 1: How APIs Support the Digitalization of Bank Service Channels
The digital world carries within itself a range of acronyms that help in digitizing business. Among these are the Application Programming Interface (API). A...
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...
September 2019 API News Roundup
School is now in session at APIfriends. Get ready to get schooled on the latest API news stories. Below are this month's headlines in...
Need to cut your integration backlog? Here’s the blueprint!
“I need this integration complete ASAP. It’s holding up my project… oh, and world peace.”
Sound familiar? When will it ease up? Every day you get a...
API Catalogs are all about innovation
Your API strategy stands little chance of adoption if you don't have an API Catalog. But it's more than a registry. Built the right...
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...
API News Roundup – August 2019
The summer is almost over, so we are taking you back to school with a new edition of API headlines. Here is this month's...
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...
How to Photograph a Black Hole – Observing Microservices with OpenTelemetry
Microservices architecture is a software development architectural style, whereby a complex business problem is solved by a suite of small services. These microservices are...
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 News Roundup – July 2019
It's halfway through the summer, and we are hard at work curating the top API news stories from around the world. Here is this...
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...
API News Roundup – June 2019
June is here, and it's hot! Not just high temperatures; it's been a hot month for API news. We are not taking a summer...
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...
API News Roundup for May 2019
It's that time again! May has turned out to be an exciting month of API stories in the news. Count on API Friends to...
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...
API News Roundup – April 2019
April has just begun and there are already a lot of API stories in the news this month. You can always count on API...
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 News Roundup for March 22, 2019
This has been a busy last two weeks for API news. Below is our API News Roundup for March 22, 2019.
API News Roundup
Axway acquires...
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...
API News Roundup – March 2019
There has been a lot of API news in just the first week of March! Here is the API news roundup of the latest...
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 News Roundup – February 22, 2019
We are more than halfway through February, that means our biweekly summary of the latest API news stories. Here’s the latest API news over...
2018 DZone Guide to Microservices: Speed, agility and flexibility
The 2018 DZone Guide to microservices is a full-encompassed report that surveys developers, architects, and technologists from a far-reaching scale of the software and...
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...
API Roundup – Latest API news for February 2019
It's that time again: a summary of the latest API news stories over the last two weeks. Here's the latest API News for February...
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...
API Roundup–The latest API news for January 2019
Below, I summarize the latest API news stories featured on API Friends over the last two weeks.
APIs and healthcare: Why the healthcare industry needs...
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...