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• How to detect and control the spread of shadow APIs

  Now that infiltration via APIs has become a favored method for hackers, IT teams need to take additional steps to safeguard those important interfaces. Continue Reading

• How a microservices chassis regulates cross-cutting concerns

  Those who've implemented a microservices architecture know that it presents a formidable collection of cross-cutting concerns to manage. Luckily, a microservices chassis might help. Continue Reading

• How to handle typical event-driven architecture failures

  Adding events to an architecture can pose plenty of problems. Review some common event-driven architecture failures development teams face, and some strategic fixes for them. Continue Reading

• Fight microservices complexity with low-code development

  Software developers are in a constant battle with complexity. Microservices hold promise as ready-to-assemble app components, but low-code development might be a better approach. Continue Reading

• The vicious cycle of circular dependencies in microservices

  Modular design is impossible so long as circular dependencies lurk in your architecture. So how can you break problematic coupling between otherwise-independent components? Continue Reading

• 4 microservices antipatterns that ruin migration

  A migration to microservices can quickly lead to a chaotic heap of overly-coupled modules and fragile code. Here are the most critical microservices antipatterns to avoid.Continue Reading

• How to tackle 5 common event bus pattern problems

  The event bus pattern has quickly become a necessity, but it's not a free ride. Here are five common problems you'll face when you rely on an event bus.Continue Reading

• This 90-year-old business crushed application integration problems

  By putting a microscope to a 90-year-old manufacturing company's digital transformation project, find out how application integration problems materialize and how to solve them.Continue Reading

• 5 ways to get complex event processing right

  How should software teams make the best use of complex event processing, and how can they implement it successfully? This article looks at five fundamental truths about CEP.Continue Reading

• These 6 microservices architecture design patterns solve problems

  Navigate the benefits and drawbacks of standard architecture design patterns that aim to diminish microservices deployment and performance miseries.Continue Reading

• Unravel asynchronous inter-service communication in microservices

  See why microservices need to communicate with each other asynchronously. Then, see how to surmount the challenges of inter-service communication in microservices architecture.Continue Reading

• Can API mapping fix data integration problems?

  The more distributed and complex a modern application is, the more likely an API mapping tool should join the developers' arsenal for efficient design and troubleshooting.Continue Reading

• Prepare to face these 4 common challenges with microservices

  The benefits of microservices come with a cost. Review four common ways breaking up a monolith can actually complicate routine application development and management tasks.Continue Reading

• 4 tips to tackle common microservices testing problems

  Flaky tests put code quality -- and development team morale -- at risk. Proliferating microservices stress out test environments, so use these techniques to keep everything running.Continue Reading

• Achieve application state management in microservices designs

  Discover the how-tos for managing state in microservices applications, and then evaluate prevalent front-end and back-end state management approaches.Continue Reading

• Enable an antilatency cloud event processing architecture

  Event-based applications cannot tolerate unreliable networks or latency. Consider an architecture that puts some event processing local to the source to alleviate cloud traffic.Continue Reading

• Useful APIs are the ones you can track

  APIs are effective, in part, because developers can collaborate on them and make them better. Still, useful APIs are ones that are carefully tracked and secured.Continue Reading

• Three keys to cloud API management success

  Document and authenticate your way to API management success. Here are key elements of a sensible strategy to help you get the benefits of APIs without the headaches.Continue Reading

• How shared Lambda functions help microservices access control

  Shared Lambda functions can help combat error message issues that arise when developers create custom authentication and authorization for microservices. Here's how they work.Continue Reading

• 5 common traps lurking in RESTful development

  Unfortunately, many RESTful API developers fall into the same traps during design. Here are five common mistakes that you can avoid with the right planning.Continue Reading

• API integration becomes an enterprise priority

  To gain the agility required of multi-cloud and mobile computing, enterprises will invest in agile API integration platforms, as well as event-driven integration.Continue Reading

• To address microservices issues, turn to OOP principles

  Developers may graduate to microservices from object-oriented programming, but the fundamental principles of OOP still apply, even if the techniques have changed.Continue Reading

• Should I use tools that support the OpenAPI Specification?

  Thinking about applying the OpenAPI Specification to API development? Analyze OpenAPI's automation and standardization benefits and see if it will ease your API design difficulties.Continue Reading

• In Kubernetes management, infrastructure work is tricky

  While Kubernetes has a lot to offer when it comes to deployment and container management, developers still need tools that help with infrastructure management.Continue Reading

• 5 critical components of a microservices security plan

  Microservices have introduced a wave of security complexity. Before you run containerized microservices in production, carefully review these five critical security practices.Continue Reading

• How to approach mobile optimization with less risk

  Microservices and containers can help boost mobile optimization, but it's not automatic. Development teams must think carefully about tooling choices, API creation and more.Continue Reading

• How to match microservices middleware to your mission

  Microservices middleware strategies require an understanding of goals, state control and other key factors. Discover everything you should consider and how it affects your needs.Continue Reading

• Best tools and methods for designing RESTful APIs

  Approaches to RESTful API design may differ, but five essential elements to API design exist to help guide your tool selection conundrum and solve your RESTful API design problems.Continue Reading

• How to build a layered approach to security in microservices

  Make your microservices-based app as secure as possible by adopting an in-depth, layered security strategy because no single traditional approach can reliably do the job.Continue Reading

• How to control state for so-called stateless microservices

  How do you control state in a stateless microservices environment? Front-end and back-end state control can be two viable approaches, and one requires less work than the other.Continue Reading

• How a SaaS provider made microservices deployment safely chaotic

  Remind was blindsided by performance issues with its microservices-based SaaS, until the company decided to sabotage its own product -- at scheduled times, in staging -- with a different kind of test.Continue Reading

• Modernizing legacy applications with minimal strain

  Many different challenges can occur as a result of modernizing legacy applications. Luckily, there are a multitude of options at your disposal to overcome these obstacles.Continue Reading

• How to mitigate the complexity of microservice communication

  As development teams continue to adopt microservices, they must ensure communication errors do not get out of control. Here are some tools and techniques to do just that.Continue Reading

• How can microservices help modernize legacy applications?

  Can microservices help modernize legacy applications? An expert lists ways microservices help developers break the monolith into functional services.Continue Reading

• Microservices challenges include latency, but it can be beat

  When working with microservices, latency is the cost. Read about the weak points of microservices and the necessary workarounds to latency and experience issues.Continue Reading

• The pros and cons of container platforms for portability

  Container platforms enable high degrees of portability, but there are some container portability limitations related to persistent storage, different container formats and more.Continue Reading

• Troubleshooting microservices performance problems

  Get a better understanding of troubleshooting tools and techniques for managing microservices performance issues.Continue Reading

• How to keep microservices performance from going south

  Microservices can streamline development, but at what cost? Kurt Marko discusses the potential performance impacts and how to implement proper microservices performance management.Continue Reading

• REST vs. SOAP: Choosing the best web service

  SOAP and REST offer different methods to invoke a web service. Learn the variations between the two approaches, including integration concerns and client choices.Continue Reading

• Creating successful RESTful API design

  Successful API design requires lots of attention to detail. Take these three steps for creating RESTful API design.Continue Reading

• Beat hackers with a vulnerability assessment process

  Get started on a vulnerability risk assessment process to prevent hacks on data, applications and more. Take these steps to identify vulnerabilities and improve risk management.Continue Reading

• Is there a way to automate API code generation?

  As useful as APIs are, developers still struggle to create them due to lapses in documentation and specs. Brad Irby explores a tool that can help automate API code generation.Continue Reading

• How do you modernize legacy apps for mobile devices?

  Here are several options for incorporating mobile apps as part of a legacy system modernization effort. Approaches include vendor apps and writing APIs.Continue Reading

• What are the best ways to prevent refactoring problems?

  How do refactoring problems come about, and is there a way to predict them? Contributor Brad Irby has the answers.Continue Reading

• How to address security risks posed by middleware tools

  Middleware tools can present a huge vulnerability, enough to offset their benefits. However, with some simple steps you can protect yourself and your data.Continue Reading

• Updating COBOL programs: Pitfalls to avoid when going from COBOL to C

  To keep operational expenses low, keep these modernization considerations in mind when dealing with COBOL programs.Continue Reading

• Enterprise design: Is three-tiered architecture still useful?

  When dealing with complex systems, an enterprise design that includes a Web services tier that can support different types of devices is a necessity.Continue Reading

• API design: How to properly build an application program interface

  Don't let your entire API project go awry. Knowing the applications well is just one way to nail the design and foster developer loyalty.Continue Reading

• Mobile development: The pros of HTML5, hybrid, native applications

  Whether to make use of a hybrid, HTML5 or a native application depends on each specific situation.Continue Reading

• Backend as a Service players, users and trends

  Today, Backend as a Service (BaaS) vendors vie with alternatives for mobile apps that must deftly integrate back and front ends.Continue Reading

• Best practices for solutions architecture

  Solutions architecture has gained a reputation for being difficult to define. Even so, best practices unique to solutions architecture have emerged.Continue Reading

• The impact of HTML5 on Web applications

  HTML, the HyperText Markup Language, is an essential part of the Internet experience. HTML5 is one part of what WHATWG sees as essential to the future of Web applications.Continue Reading

• Is BASE a more scalable alternative to ACID transactions?

  ACID is used to summarize the basic properties of a transaction in the database sense of the word, not the logical "business" transaction sense. On the other hand BASE is used to summarize the properties many large scale Web sites follow to relax or...Continue Reading