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What Is an API Platform?

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The term API Platform has been used synonymously by some vendors with API Management, Full Lifecycle API Management, and even the term API Gateway. Everyone loves to spice up a subject with the word platform but being loose with the term is cutting the subject short. What is an API Platform? An API Platform is all these things and more.

An API Platform’s purpose is to serve net new application development — building new capabilities, new experiences, nurturing ecosystems, and more. API Management, Full Lifecycle API Management, and API Gateways are tables stakes here of course. These bring life to API design and development, to lifecycle management, to policy and security enforcement, to analytics and to nurturing development communities as consumers of these APIs. All critical.

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API Security Weekly: Issue #44

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This week, we look at API vulnerabilities in Kubernetes and 3Fun, upcoming API Specification Conference, and slides from EIN 2019 conference presentation.

Vulnerabilities: Kubernetes

Kubernetes has fixed the API vulnerability CVE-2019-11247.

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The Complexity of API Discovery

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The Complexity of API Discovery

I can’t get API discovery out of my mind. Partly because I am investing significant cycles in this area at work, but it is also something I have been thinking about for so long that it is difficult to move on. It remains one of the most complex, challenging, and un-addressed aspects of the way the web is working (or not working) online today. I feel pretty strongly that there hasn’t been an investment in the area of API discovery because most technology companies providing and consuming APIs prefer things to be un-discoverable, for a variety of conscious and unconscious reasons behind these belief systems.

What Does API Discovery Mean? Depends on Who You Are…

One of the reasons that API discovery does not evolve in any significant way is because there is not any real clarity on what API discovery is. Depending on who you are and what your role in the technology sector is, you’ll define API discovery in a variety of ways. There are a handful of key actors that contribute to the complexity of defining and optimizing in the area of API discovery.

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Xignite’s Webhook API For Financial Alerts

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Our partner Xignite has launched a powerful new webhook API for getting financial market notifications pushed to the URL of your choice. Allowing developers to craft individual subscriptions to the robust financial markets data catalog Xignite brings to the table. Xignite provides a testable form for defining each of the alerts you create for the Xignite financial data APIs, allowing you define using the following data points: a href="https://www.xignite.com/product/market-data-alerts#/DeveloperResources/request">

– IdentifierType — The type of identifier used (ie. Symbol)
– Identifier — The specific identifier value for this alert.
– API — Which of the Xignite APIs you want to receive alerts.
– Condition — Allowing you to apply specific conditions to alerts.
– Reset — Determines the alert frequency, and if it resets itself.
– CallbackURL — The URL that the webhook alert will call when an event occurs.
– StartDate — Giving the alert a start date of when it will run.
– EndDate — Giving the alert an end date of when it will stop running.

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