What Are Good Traits That Make Great API Product Managers

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As more companies realize the benefits of an API-first mindset and treating their APIs as products, there is a growing need for good API product management practices to make a company’s API strategy a reality. However, API product management is a relatively new field with little established knowledge on what is API product management and what a PM should be doing to ensure their API platform is successful.

Many of the current practices of API product management have carried over from other products and platforms like web and mobile, but API products have their own unique set of challenges due to the way they are marketed and used by customers. While it would be rare for a consumer mobile app to have detailed developer docs and a developer relations team, you’ll find these items common among API product-focused companies. A second unique challenge is that APIs are very developer-centric and many times API PMs are engineers themselves. Yet, this can cause an API or developer program to lose empathy for what their customers actually want if good processes are not in place. Just because you’re an engineer, don’t assume your customers will want the same features and use cases that you want.

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21 août 2020/par Service comm.

Choose Your Own Adventure with the Parsons Web Design and Development Certificate

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Many people dream of a career in web design, but it may actually be more attainable than you think.

There are countless online courses, of variable quality, with little to no academic structure; self-learning is an option, but it doesn’t come with a curriculum. Without a professional structure and a comprehensive curriculum your dream career might never be more than that.

But there is a practical, fast-track option to making a career in web design a reality, and that’s the Parsons Web Design and Development Certificate.

Built around the innovative teaching approach that Parsons is known for, you’ll learn human-centered design, explore the latest tools, evaluate techniques and approaches, and uncover the secrets of UX. The certificate even offers two distinct tracks, one for designers, and one for developers, so you can take control of your own future.

It’s one of the most creative approaches to a formal design education in the world, and what’s more, because it’s entirely online you can study from anywhere.

What Will I Learn?

Parsons offers a flexible curriculum to suit both designers and developers. There are two core courses, followed by three specialist courses.

learn human-centered design, explore the latest tools, evaluate techniques and approaches, and uncover the secrets of UX

The core courses cover the essentials of web and mobile design, plus JavaScript for designers. Each of the core courses lasts nine weeks. When you’ve completed them, you can opt for a design specialism or a development specialism. (You don’t have to make your choice until you’ve completed the core courses!)

If you prefer design work, you’ll spend a total of 21 further weeks learning mobile design patterns, studying emerging platforms, working with interactive typography, and mastering design systems.

If development is more your thing, then on the 21 week development track you’ll cover advanced HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, learn how to work with APIs, and finish up with experimental JavaScript.

To earn the Web Design and Development Certificate you need to complete the two core courses, plus three specialist courses within two years — a total of 39 weeks of study. Parsons recommend that you take two courses per semester, but it’s possible to complete the entire certificate program in one year.

Is This Really For Me?

Parsons Web Design and Development Certificate is a recognized qualification from a reputable institution that will stand you in good stead in future job interviews. But what’s more important, is the knowledge and experience you’ll gain from the course.

Thanks to the creative, flexible approach to learning, the certificate is suitable for designers and developers at any stage of their career

Thanks to the creative, flexible approach to learning, the certificate is suitable for designers and developers at any stage of their career.

If you’re just starting out, the certificate is a superb way of exploring the field, all the while building skills that will make you stand out to employers.

If you’re a print designer, or a programmer, the Web Design and Development Certificate is a great way to supplement your existing skills and make a lateral move into web work.

And if you’re a grizzled industry professional with decades of experience, you’ll benefit from the track you know least well; designers studying development, developers studying design. Not only will it open up new creative avenues to you, but you’ll find project management easier with a broader outlook on the web.

The best thing about the Parsons Web Design and Development Certificate is that because it’s made up of modules, you can still work part-time as you tick off the courses.

Why Choose Parsons?

Parsons College of Design is part of The New School, a New York-based university. Open Campus, the platform that will run the certificate, is the New School’s online system for pre-college, professional, and continuing education courses.

Thanks to Covid-19, most learning institutions are planning online-only courses for at least the next 12 months, so why not enroll in a program run by an institution that already excels at online teaching.

Innovative courses, underpinned by the creative approach to teaching that Parsons College of Design is renowned for, mean the design education you embark on this fall will be second to none.

Individual courses cost between $577 and $850, with the entire Web Design and Development Certificate costing just $3,704.

[– This is a sponsored post on behalf of Parsons College of Design –]

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11 août 2020/par Service comm.

API Security Weekly: Issue #81

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This week, we check out how Microsoft Teams could be breached with a single GIF image sent in a chat, and Auth0 by changing the case of a single character.

In other news, a report on security issues in smart home hubs has been published, and a new online training on OAuth2.0 and OpenID Connect is available.

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30 avril 2020/par Service comm.

Best Practices for Building SDKs for APIs

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In 2020, you can’t be a B2B company without having an API program. Whether your API is the product or APIs are leveraged to enable additional integrations and functionality for your web app.

Even though an SDK could seem simple in terms of lines of code, SDKs need to be reliable and handle scale with ease. A poorly designed SDK could cripple your customer’s infrastructure and reduce trust in your service. At Moesif, we put a lot of effort into creating SDKs that are both high performance while adding in fail-safes in case bad things happen. This article walks through some of those practices. Given Moesif is an API analytics service, some of these practices are specific to high-volume data collection. However, other features are applicable regardless of your SDK purpose.

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24 mars 2020/par Service comm.

API Security Weekly: Issue #70

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This week, we check out a recent API vulnerability in Twitter. In addition, it looks like API vulnerabilities are a bit of a theme in apps by political parties: vulnerabilities were discovered in apps by Israel’s Likud and the Democratic Party in the USA. We also have two API security talks: one recorded and one upcoming webinar.

Vulnerability: Twitter

Twitter has disclosed a recent API exploit. The API endpoints to make finding friends in Twitter by their phone numbers easier were abused, possibly by state-sponsored actors, to mine accounts by mapping them to phone numbers. Detecting and throttling the exploit was hard because the phone numbers were not sequential and attackers used multiple accounts and IP addresses in their attacks.

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14 février 2020/par Service comm.

API Security Weekly: Issue #68

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This week, we take a look at where API security is at on Gartner Hype Cycle, what the threatscape for 2020 looks like according to McAfee, and a SANS Institute whitepaper on DevSecOps.

Analysts: API Security in Gartner Hype Cycle

Gartner published their Hype Cycle for Application Security, 2019 a few months ago. The Hype Cycle provides a graph on where we are in application security in terms of the maturity of technologies and their adoption; what is up and coming and what is already established.

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30 janvier 2020/par Service comm.

API Security Weekly: Issue #66

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This week, the OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange got its RFC, and there is an upcoming webinar on JWT. In addition, we take a look at where to start with securing your APIs, and how 2020 seems to be shaping up according to analysts.

Standard: OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange

IETF has published the RFC 8693 for OAuth 2.0 Token Exchange.

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24 janvier 2020/par Service comm.

How Real-Time APIs Power Our Lives

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How Real-Time APIs Power Our Lives

The other day I went to dinner, and it made me appreciate the need for fast application programming interfaces (APIs). Confused? Let me explain.

To get to dinner, I used an app to hail a car from my smartphone. Most of us are familiar with this routine — you open the app, enter your destination, get a ride, step out of the car when you arrive, and pay for your trip automatically using the credit card on file. While you’re waiting for the driver to pick you up, the map updates in real time to indicate the location of the car on approach. But on that day, the app did not update the map. I waited five increasingly uncomfortable minutes, not knowing if a driver was on the way or had even accepted my request. After 10 minutes, I got frustrated and switched to an alternative ride-hailing app! This time I was successful and watched in real time as my driver approached and picked me up. I made it to dinner with a few minutes to spare.

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27 décembre 2019/par Service comm.

API Is Dead – Long Live the APIs

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Long Live APIs

In this article, I will highlight how the glorious monarchical reign of REST (Representational State Transfer) APIs is declining and how the ecosystem is moving towards democracy. Today the API consumers decide what the format or protocol of the API should be.

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8 octobre 2019/par Service comm.