Tag: API Gateway
What is an API gateway?
APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are the building blocks of modern business, but a single API is rarely the only part of the story. Enterprises...
What is API Security? What you need to know
APIs are the building blocks of extraordinary digital experiences, but if you’re not properly managing them, they can also be a security risk. It...
API terminology explained: Gateways, Portals, API Catalogs, Marketplaces
The API Management space has evolved a lot over the last two decades. With APIs becoming increasingly important as the foundational building blocks of...
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...
Unified API and integration governance takeaways: Why API complexity happens
It started with customers telling us they had a pain point: they were using multiple API gateways — both from Axway and from other...
Zero Trust: Moving from perimeter security to API layer, continuous authentication
*Republished with permission from VMblog.com.
Traditionally, Zero Trust has been focused on moving beyond the network perimeter. But with the growing use of APIs, Zero...
Is your software past its prime? Four key reasons to ditch outdated solutions (even...
There’s a certain level of nostalgia about software. We often hate to let it go, or circumstances don’t allow us to.
Take Microsoft Windows, for...
Four challenges of using multiple API gateways: Webinar takeaways
IT architectures are becoming more complex with multiple API gateways. And without central visibility and control over your APIs, multiple gateways can mean various...
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 Agent Configuration YAML and ENV Files
Amplify Central agents enable you to connect your API Gateways to Amplify Central in order to have a single control pane to view all...
Multiple API Gateways: Managing complexity to bring better value
Multiple API Gateway's value lies in knowing how to manage the complexity in today’s world with the right solution in place. SmartBear’s State of API...
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...
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 Lifecycle Management: Deprecation and Sunsetting
APIs are products and go through the same lifecycle as all products. They get created, see some usage, get improved over time based on...
Multiple API Gateways: Why does it happen and what are the challenges?
Many organizations have multiple API Gateways in place. This can complicate the goal of creating an organization-wide approach for managing and using APIs. However,...
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!...
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...
Five ways APIs help businesses during uncertain times
APIs are the key drivers of any business. Companies need to evolve quickly — either scaling up or down. With an API-driven platform, you...
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...
Can we change the world with this hack?
A thrilling invite...
All of a sudden, I had a meeting invite from a stranger in my inbox. I was contacted by an agency who...
Axway + Solace Part 4: Axway App Integration + Solace REST Client
This is my fourth blog post in the journey to integrate the Axway platform with Solace PubSub Event Broker to bring more value to...
Microservices: Build for speed, design for change
In a world made of software, it’s no longer just an IT decision on how we build applications. Let’s talk about how a modular...
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...
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...
Observing and acting on API business and operational metrics
Starting from the vision that only what can be measured can be controlled, we must learn to capture metrics that can help us observe...
How big is the API Management Market?
APIs are eating the world.
APIs are being discussed on the board-level—even written about in Forbes Magazine. APIs are behind everything digital. And APIs are...
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...
The core principles of API Management
API Management is the method of constructing and publishing APIs (Application Program Interfaces), as well as implementing their usage guidelines, regulating access, cultivating the...
B3 streamlines deliveries with Axway Amplify Platform
With the traffic of files over 80 GB, B3 uses the Axway platform to streamline securely its processes.
B3—Brasil, Bolsa, Balcão is the stock exchange...
How companies are using API Management
In the digital era, most companies expose their APIs to engage with their partners, consumers, users or application developers to expand their businesses. Most...
Incorporating hybrid capabilities into iPaaS
In a recent survey conducted by the IDC, respondents were asked questions about factors that lead to a good experience using SaaS applications. Here...
AMPLIFY Central solves “The need for speed” with enterprise APIs and services
As Maverick famously said in Top Gun, “I feel the need—the need for speed.” Fast forward 30 years, and organizations today feel the same...
API Proxy vs. API Gateway
Recently, someone asked me the question of using API proxy vs. API Gateway.
Well, let’s start with the basic premise. You have your backend services and...
Five capabilities every API Management Platform should have
I am often asked, what are the five capabilities of an API Management Platform and what should they have? My answer starts with the...
Hit the ground running with AMPLIFY™
The shift from a pure on-premises landscape of applications to a hybrid mix of SaaS and on-premises applications has resulted in new and bigger...
Choosing the right API Gateway!
A critical component of an API-based architecture is to have an API Gateway. This becomes more important as organizations are breaking their monolithic services...
API Gateway capabilities and features
By now most enterprises have heard about the concept of full life-cycle API Management (FLAM), but it is not uncommon when discussing the components...
The role of the API Gateway–“You can’t handle the truth!”
I recently watched the courtroom scene from A Few Good Men where Jack Nicholson’s character, Colonel Jessep, takes the stand to determine if a...
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...
Enterprise Comparison of API Gateways and ESBs
It is not uncommon for customers taking their digital transformation (DX) journey to come to a point where they start looking into API Gateways...
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...
What is an API Mashup?
Have you been wondering what the definition of an API Mashup is? An API Mashup is an API that coordinates countless APIs. This process...
API security: How can AI help secure your APIs?
APIs enable Digitalization and make communication easier. And opening APIs requires security. But what does API security mean? Security is everywhere and applies on...
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...
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...
Stoplight and Axway: API-First Design
Leaders in Digital Transformation lead with an API-First Design. An API-First approach means that development of the API revolves around how the end-product will...
API maturity in global fintech markets
A major component of a mature API lifecycle is the way an API provider communicates with its consumers. To establish trust, the provider that...
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...
The role of API Gateways in the modern enterprise
After my previous article on OAuth 2 scopes, several people contacted me to ask what exactly an API Manager is. In this article, I...
There’s gold in them thar hills
Recently I was working on a pitch to my executive board, and I wanted to include some content that I thought would be perfect...
MSC: Why they embraced DevOps and AMPLIFY API Management
DevOps and Axway’s AMPLIFY API Management came to the rescue for the Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC). MSC, a global shipping leader, needed to increase...
How API Gateways enable digital insurance
How do API Gateways enable digital insurance? Going digital is not easy, especially when you are a large, leading organization in your domain with...
A new API for the airline industry with IATA NDC
The NDC (New Distribution Capability) standard, created by IATA, is a distribution standard in XML format aimed at facilitating the exchange of data between...
What are the key components of an API Management solution?
Across industries, disruptive competitors, new regulations and rising customer expectations are driving digital transformation. APIs are at the heart of digital interactions that will...
API Security makes it into OWASP Top 10 RC1
The first Release Candidate of the popular OWASP Top 10 contained “under protected APIs” as one of the Top 10 things to watch out...
Should REST API security risks keep you awake at night?
With the growth of REST APIs inside enterprises, but also outside their boundaries in their ecosystem, monitoring, protecting, and preventing attacks is key, and...
Zoom on Web Service Security
API Security is an important topic and I would like in this article to get deeper into the specific case of Web Service Security.
Web...