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13+1 Tips For Smarter RESTful API Development

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Hussain Fakhruddin is the founder/CEO of Teknowledge mobile apps company. He heads a large team of app developers, and has overseen the creation of nearly 600 applications. Apart from app development, his interests include reading, traveling and online blogging.
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                 For accessing and implementing remote services in applications, software developers have two alternative protocol choices for developing APIs. The first (and the older) option is to go with SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) APIs, which fetch data as services. For public APIs in particular though, this approach is no longer that popular. In… Read More »

Top 12 Advantages Of Outsourcing IT Projects

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                 More than 50% information technology firms across the world outsource their projects, either fully or partially. According to a 2016-17 IT Outsourcing Statistics report, around 40% of application development firms increased the degree of outsourcing last year (as opposed to a measly 9% firms actually reducing their outsourcing activities). In particular, both the… Read More »

How To Design Your APIs? Here Are Some Useful Tips!

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                 Like every other type of software, the success of application program interfaces (APIs) hinges crucially on the type of user-experience they provide. There is, however, a significant point of difference. While user-oriented software (mobile apps, for instance) need to be easily usable for the general public, APIs have to be accepted by developers… Read More »

Top 10 API Security Threats You Should Be Wary Of

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                 Instances of cyber hacks and software attacks are increasing at an alarming rate. In 2015, the year-on-year spike in the total number of ‘zero-day vulnerabilities’ (instances of cyber attacks for which fixes were not yet available) jumped by more than 125%. Like any other piece of software, APIs can also be compromised by… Read More »

7 Reasons Why You Should Build API Driven Solutions For Your Mobile Apps

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                 It won’t be overstating facts if APIs were referred to as the ‘foundational technology’ behind application development. API-driven development methods were in focus since the start of Web 2.0 technology, although the attention on APIs has really spiked in the last half a decade or so. APIs bolster the performance of mobile apps… Read More »

Top 13 Tips On How To Optimize Your API Strategy

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              The importance of APIs – often dubbed as the ‘fossil fuel for the next generation’ – is growing rapidly in the world of business. In a recent survey, it was found that around 72% of all enterprises already have well-defined API strategies in place. What’s more, 1 out of every 2 companies were generating (or… Read More »

Enterprise API Management: 12 Things You Need To Know

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              Business enterprises are moving towards a centralized ‘API economy’ at a rapid rate. It has been predicted that, by the end of 2018, more than 85% of all the large enterprises across the globe will set up their very own API programs*. The move towards enterprise APIs is fueled by a number of factors –… Read More »

Top 15 App Ideas For 2017

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              In February 2016, the total number of apps available for download at the Google Play Store touched the 2 million mark. It took a little longer for Apple App Store to reach the milestone, which it finally arrived at in June. Given the sheer variety of iPhone and Android applications currently at the online stores,… Read More »

Are You Familiar With These 9 API Testing Tools?

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              Among the many concerns of API providers, the biggest is related to API quality and performance (as highlighted in a previous post). In a API security webinar conducted by SmartBear and Axway, 56% of the attendees mentioned that security is a ‘very important’ feature in APIs. Rather strangely, only around 12% of the same group… Read More »