Because APIs make digital assets easy to reuse and deliver, APIs power virtually every digital experience. Even more important are the developers who create, connect, and translate APIs into digital experiences. Yet the experience provided to these developers is often just a static website with technical documentation about your APIs.
As more business people become exposed to the API economy – the idea of turning business capabilities into APIs that are subsequently monetized in some way – they often race to the most obvious question: What should my strategy for the API economy be?
The web is littered with good API intentions gone wrong. Too many businesses have realized they “need APIs” and created them as a tick-the-box feature without thinking about their broader strategic value. One critical difference between the businesses that succeed and those that don’t is the underlying approach by which APIs are planned and conceived. Put simply: Is the API a project or a product?
Earlier this month, at MuleSoft CONNECT 2018, we unveiled Titan, the next major release of Anypoint Platform. This release represents our most comprehensive Anypoint Platform release to date and marks a major milestone in our plan to help customers build flexible, secure, multi-cloud application networks. This release includes updates to the following components of Anypoint Platform:
A recent report, conducted by Utah State University and sponsored by Puppet Labs, revealed that DevOps practices can boost IT performance and ultimately improve a business’s bottom line. High IT performance correlates with DevOps practices like proactive monitoring and continuous delivery and integration. Similarly, the ability to create and implement a successful API strategy has become a critical competency for modern IT teams. According to MuleSoft’s 2017 Connectivity Benchmark Report,
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Last week, Gartner published its 2016 Magic Quadrant for Full Lifecycle API Management, which covers “the planning, design, implementation, publication, operation, consumption, maintenance and retirement of APIs.” Proudly, MuleSoft is in the Leaders quadrant for the second year in a row. In the report, Gartner lists the following as one of MuleSoft’s strengths:
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With Anypoint Runtime Manager 2.0, launching early next month, MuleSoft customers can monitor, troubleshoot, analyze and manage applications and APIs securely deployed in a public or private cloud or on-premises, in a sandbox, staging or production environment from a single pane of glass.
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In some organizations, the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) has earned a reputation inside of IT as a blocker or a hindrance to innovation. Some CISOs have even be referred to as the ‘Queen (or King) of No.’ Why? Because despite the massive amounts of attention being paid to security in the media, with Target, Apple, Nissan, and Twitter all making the news recently for their security failures,
We recently released a broad set of enhancements across Anypoint Management Center, the unified suite of management capabilities users of Anypoint Platform access to administer all aspects of Anypoint Platform on-prem and in the cloud. Across API Manager, Runtime Manager, and Access Management we’ve made extensive visual and functional upgrades to improve user experience from adjusting icons fonts and colors to optimizing workflow patterns and improving audit logging.
Messaging is used to help organizations provide reliable, zero message loss environments, to decouple applications, enable scale, and to unlock data for broader distribution. It’s a critical pattern for most enterprise architectures. In healthcare, for example, a messaging pattern might be used to create a buffer between the electronic medical records system and any number of consuming applications who need to know when a patient record has been updated. Or in retail,
