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Have you ever sent money or booked ride or ordered food or posted on socials or even messaged friend, it was APIs that helped in achieving them. APIs are the neural links in the world of communication and getting an insight into how it works can help you understand the underlying technology

Whether you're a developer, a business owner, or just curious about how APIs work, we are here to break down the complexities of APIs. We'll walk you through from the basics to advanced concepts, using simple language and real-world examples. So, let's dive in and discover the exciting world of APIs together!

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APIs are the neural links of any digital communication

3 things to understand APIs and manage them at scale

What is an API?

An API is an interface that makes it easy for one application to consume capabilities or data from another application. It is a set of rules and protocols that allows software applications to communicate with each other

API types based on architecture

SOAP, RPC, Websocket, REST

API types based on scope

Private, Public, Partner, Composite

Commonly used frameworks for API creation

Springboot for Java, Express JS, Flask for Python, Ruby on rails, Gin for Go

What is Lifecycle of an API?

The API lifecycle is the series of steps that teams must take in order to successfully design, develop, deploy, and consume APIs. Teams that follow a clearly defined API lifecycle are more productive and better equipped to deliver a high-quality API

API Producer Lifecycle

These are the various stages that a developer has to go through to complete a fully compliant API

API Consumer Lifecycle

These are the stages a consumer of API will go through to start using an API in their application

Optimized Productivity

Ensure your developers do not spend time on operational tasks and make sure its fully automated

How to manage APIs?

API management is the process of developing, designing, monitoring, testing, securing, and analyzing APIs for organizations. API management platforms provide a robust set of software and processes with this functionality, hosted on premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid environment

Secure your enterprise

Provides a highly secured infrastructure and policies to expose the enterprise data to internet

Centralized Governance

Managed and governed in a centralized way to enable consistency across the APIs

Visibility into APIs

Provides quick insights and visibility into performance and discoverability of APIs

Find out more content in our Blog

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The blog contains articles, tutorials, thought leadership and latest news in API world. Explore these posts to dive deeper into the technology.

How to do orchestration in Kong

How to do orchestration in Kong

One of the much awaited feature in Kong which was released in 3.10 is the Request Callout, which will help the Kong API management platform to perform orchestration/aggregation of API calls instead of teams exploring custom plugins

Using Gateway API with Kong

Using Gateway API with Kong

Kubernetes has revolutionized how we deploy and manage applications. This blog post will delve into the methods of exposing pods in Kubernetes, the existing Ingress API, its limitations, and why the Kubernetes SIG (Special Interest Group) is developing the new Gateway API as its successor. We'll also walk through how to deploy the Gateway API using Kong

Get started on APIOps with Kong

Get started on APIOps with Kong

Increasing your developer productivity can greatly enhance your business. Kong provides a set of tools which you can leverage to make your developer life easier with aspects on API Provider Lifecycle

How to instrument observability in Kong

How to instrument observability in Kong

Observability is one of the major concern when managing a platform of scale. Kong provides lot of plugins to integrate with most familiar tools in the market. Here we will see how Kong can integrate onto any platform of choice supported by fluent-bit for logs and metrics and otel for traces.

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