David Berlind

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the API business models being used by providers today. It revisits the old API business models to see what has changed and also identifies all of the newcomers based on real-world observations across the API economy over the last five years.

In this article, we provide instructions on how to quickly implement the Sendbird UIKit for iOS and deploy fully-featured messaging using pre-built UI and messaging UX. Sendbird UIKit for iOS is essentially a combination of user interface tooling and the Sendbird Chat SDK for iOS.

Sendbird has announced the addition of voice and video calling APIs to augment its existing chat and messaging API offering. The technology relies on the World Wide Web Consortium’s WebRTC standard and offers customers an opportunity to consolidate their in-app communications down to one vendor.

While a recent MuleSoft survey indicates that businesses see digital transformation as being critical to their success, a majority of IT leaders still picture themselves as keeping the lights on versus innovating. ProgrammableWeb’s David Berlind discusses the findings with MuleSoft’s Ani Pandit.

In this presentation of ProgrammableWeb’s Developers Rock Podcast, David Berlind, editor in chief of ProgrammableWeb interviews Andrew Lawrence, director of product management at Commerce Cloud at Salesforce. Salesforce Commerce Cloud has launched a newly redesigned API developer portal.

While private sector companies such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, etc. draw closer to perfected digital states, the public sector (government agencies and orgs) are woefully behind. In bringing together developers, civic techies, and government officials, Code for America is hoping to change that.

David Berlind delivers Part 2 of his long-running college course on APIs reviews the importance of API contracts and what it means for Web APIs to decouple API clients from API servers. He provides real-world examples of how that decoupled nature affords some amazing flexibility.

Google announced in September of 2019 that they plan on ending support for V3 of the Google Sheets API, a decision that has drawn the ire of some developers. Version 4 of the API was announced at Google I/O 2016, almost 4 years before the seemingly inevitable deprecation of its predecessor.

One of the hottest topics among API providers has to do with how to best engage developers through a developer portal. In this special report, ProgrammableWeb has compiled a comprehensive list of features (based on real world examples) that all developer portals should aspire to.

Imperva, a leading provider of Internet firewall services that help Web sites block malicious cyberattacks, alerted customers on Tuesday that a recent data breach exposed email addresses, scrambled passwords, API keys and SSL certificates for a subset of its firewall…

Upon seeing the headline to this article, API experts will likely scratch their heads wondering why the journal of the API economy (ProgrammableWeb) would indirectly suggest that REST and Swagger are comparable to the point that an article about their differences is warranted.

In this, developer-blogger Alex Kras shows us how to overcome the 60 second audio file limitation of the free tier of Google’s Cloud Speech API by taking a longer audio file, breaking it up into short chunks, and then cycling through those chunks to make a complete transcription.

Readme.io, a service that greatly simplifies the process of documenting technologies like APIs, is taking its popularity with API providers to the next level in a new offering called Build. Working off that tradition of simplicity, Build simplifies the design, provisioning and consumption of APIs.

If you’ve ever used CodePen to prototype your own web apps or to closely inspect and fork someone else’s code, then you know that one thing CodePen can’t do is hide the API keys of any APIs that your app consumes in the process of doing whatever your app does. But now, there’s a workaround.

In what appears to be a continuation of a trend whereby API management solutions are paired with platforms capable of hosting business logic, Rogue Wave Software -- provider of the ZEND PHP platform -- has acquired Akana, Inc., provider of API management and SOA governance solutions.

Given how so many companies that orbit the API economy are constantly pitching ProgrammableWeb in hopes of getting their latest greatest news covered, we thought we’d write-up some guidelines so that everyone has an idea of how to best work with us. So here are the do’s and dont’s!

In a blog post that’s posted to data.gov.uk (where much of the UK government’s data is posted for public consumption), Ross Jones has published some incredible insights into why API-first is so important to the agencies ongoing endeavors. So, what is “API-first?” Well, depending on who you

When a browser visits a Web site, the page that’s sent back over the Internet is preceded by a pre-amble known as the HTTP header. As it turns out, the same sort of pre-amble precedes a Web API’s response. As this 101-level tutorial, shows, it includes a hint about how the API formats its data.

ProgrammableWeb.com is the world’s leading source of news and information about Internet-based application programming interfaces (APIs). We welcome contributed content that informs our readers and helps them do their jobs better. As such, we’ve created some guidelines to ensure fair play by all.

This is the third part of ProgrammableWeb’s series on Understanding the Realities of API Security based on testimony by ProgrammableWeb’s editor-in-chief David Berlind to the ONC’s API Security and Privacy Task Force. This part looks at how to determine who will get access to your API.