Hey Twitter: API Management = Developer Management
Quick question for you: What matters most, the client or the server? Answer: Neither — they are really only useful as a whole. A client without a server is usually little more than an non-functional...
View ArticleDeveloper Management & the Layer 7 API Portal 2.1
As Layer 7’s CTO, Scott Morrison, recently stated: API Management = Developer Management. Okay, there are actually many elements to API Management – securing APIs, enforcing rate limits and SLAs,...
View ArticleHypermedia APIs – Tech Talk Tuesday July 24 Featuring Mike Amundsen
Our recent Tech Talk discussing OpenID Connect was great. We had some pre-questions sent in via email, lots of live questions through the stream and some great questions through our twitter hashtag...
View ArticleProgramming in the Cloud
Quite a bit has been written about how the Cloud is altering the landscape for platform, software and infrastructure providers but not as much has been said about what all this means for developers. I...
View ArticleBuilding a Developer Ecosystem: Live Tech Talk, August 21 – 9am PDT | 12pm EDT
Once again, it’s time to get ready for Tech Talk Tuesday here at Layer 7. I’m getting excited about this latest one – Building a Developer Ecosystem – for a couple of reasons. Firstly, I’m excited to...
View ArticleMobile API Best Practice: Traffic Compression
Despite how simple it is to support, compressing API traffic is an often-overlooked optimization. In situations where an API returns verbose resources, compressing the payload is a great way to reduce...
View ArticleREST Fest 2012 in Greenville, SC
Over the weekend of September 13-15, a small band of Web architects and developers will – for the third year in a row – descend upon the town of Greenville, SC. They’ll be getting together to catch up...
View ArticleDispatches from Rome: Different Strokes for Different Folks Applies to APIs Too
This week, I’m at the SDP Global Summit in Rome, which is focused on API publishing for telecom carriers. One of the comments I’m repeatedly hearing from speakers with carrier organizations is that...
View ArticleUpcoming Webinar: Open APIs + Software Competitions = Innovative & Creative...
Open API publishers often find themselves testing different strategies for promoting their APIs to developers. Hackathons represent a quick and easy way to get publicity and traction but API publishers...
View ArticleDo You Need MBaaS to be a Mobile Bad Ass Developer?
Simple answer: no. But if you’re a developer building the next great consumer app in a hurry, it probably won’t hurt. MBaaS (“mobile backend as a service”) solves some pretty prickly problems for the...
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