Articles

🔍 5 Tips for Choosing an API Management Tool

The author shared five essential factors to consider when selecting an API management tool at the 2024 Austin API Summit. He stressed the importance of a strategic approach to API management and warned that businesses that do not adopt this approach may fall behind.

🔍 Analyzing the OpenAPI Tooling Ecosystem

This article delves into the OpenAPI Specification (OAS)-based tooling ecosystem, its architecture, and the objects and fields defined by the OAS. It also presents an ideal architecture for OAS-based tools, divided into three main functional areas.

🔍 Best Practices for Deprecating an API Without Alienating Your Users

This article emphasizes the importance of careful planning, clear communication, and the right tools when deprecating an API to ensure a smooth transition for users. It also discusses the benefits of post-deprecation support, including documentation archiving and feedback collection.

🔍 gRPC: 5 Years Later, Is It Still Worth It?

Reflecting on their five-year experience with gRPC and Protobuf, the Torq team shares the benefits they've gained, including backward compatibility, standard enforcement, and reduced discrepancies. Despite some challenges with gRPC-web, they would still choose gRPC for a new project.

🔍 The Eight Pillars of API Security

This article outlines the eight pillars of API security, which are crucial for data protection, reputation management, and compliance. Each pillar contributes to a comprehensive framework for establishing crucial defenses against unauthorized access, modification, or disruption of APIs.

🔍 What is an API Review?

An API review is a process that assesses various aspects of an API, including design, technical details, lifecycle, and team involvement, among others. The review aims to ensure the consistent and effective design, development, and delivery of APIs.

🔍 What is API Drift, and What Can You Do About It?

API drift happens when an API's implementation deviates from its original design or expected behaviors. This article suggests ways to mitigate API drift, such as implementing consistent guardrails in the development lifecycle, using versioning, and regularly updating API documentation.

🔍 Writing an OpenAPI Document from the Ground Up

This article provides a comprehensive guide on creating an OpenAPI document for a TODO list API. It emphasizes an iterative approach to API design and documentation, starting with defining essential metadata and gradually expanding to operation details and security specifications.

Apache Camel

🔍 Camel integration quarterly digest: Q3 2024

Red Hat's Q3 2024 newsletter on Apache Camel highlights new releases of Kaoto, a migration guide from Camel K to Camel Extensions for Quarkus, and a live demo at the London Summit Connect. It also shares various articles and tutorials on topics like unstructured data extraction and efficient data processing.

Confluent

🔍 Shift Left: Bad Data in Event Streams, Part 1

This article explores the issue of bad data in event streams and how it can cause problems for data users. It discusses different types of bad data, how it can enter an event stream, and strategies to handle it, with a focus on prevention through schemas, validation, and testing.

🔍 Shift Left: Bad Data in Event Streams, Part 2

This article focuses on strategies for handling bad data in event streams, emphasizing event design and the "rewind, rebuild, and retry" approach. It also highlights the importance of prevention through robust testing, explicit schemas, schema validation, and data quality checks.

Debezium

🔍 Detect data mutation patterns with Debezium

This article discusses how Debezium can be used for comprehensive database activity logging and analysis in microservice architectures. It explains how Debezium captures row-level changes and streams them in real-time, providing immediate visibility into database operations.

Gravitee

🔍 Introducing the Gravitee Kafka Gateway

Gravitee has launched the Kafka Gateway, a tool that allows organizations to expose native Kafka directly to the gateway without compromising protocol integrity. The Kafka Gateway offers enhanced security, governance, and simplified management.

🔍 Introducing Gravitee Platform 4.5 - API Management

Gravitee has announced the upcoming release of its platform 4.5, which includes features designed to help enterprises scale, simplify governance, and accelerate collaboration. The new release introduces Shared Policy Groups, mTLS Plans, AI Flows, a Data Cache Policy, and an OAS Validation Policy.

🔍 Introducing Gravitee Platform 4.5 - Access Management

Gravitee's Access Management 4.5 platform introduces mutual TLS (mTLS) support for LDAP upstream Identity Providers (IdPs). This feature enhances security by requiring both the client and the server to authenticate each other before any sensitive data is exchanged.

🔍 Introducing Gravitee Platform 4.5 - Federation & API Score

This article introduces updates to Federation and a new feature called API Score. The updates allow for federated API management, enabling the management of APIs and event streams from any vendor. The new API Score feature allows developers to easily obtain an API key to directly consume the underlying API.

🔍 Introducing Gravitee Platform 4.5 - 3 Reasons to Use GKO

Gravitee has launched version 4.5 of its Kubernetes Operator (GKO), which enhances API automation, simplifies GitOps workflows, reduces manual errors, and streamlines microservice deployment.

Standards

🔗 Announcing OpenAPI Specification versions 3.0.4 and 3.1.1

The OpenAPI Initiative has announced a patch release of the 3.0 and 3.1 OpenAPI Specifications. The patch release includes numerous updates, expansions, and clarifications to the specification wording.

🔗 Announcing OpenAPI Overlay Specification 1.0.0

The Overlay Specification is a supplementary standard designed to complement the existing OpenAPI specification. It provides a way to apply transformations to OpenAPI descriptions as part of API workflows.

Releases

🚀 Apache Pulsar 4.0

Apache Pulsar 4.0 LTS introduces several improvements, including enhanced Key_Shared subscription, a secure Docker image runtime, improved Quality of Service (QoS) controls, and a token bucket algorithm for rate limiting. Users are advised to upgrade their clusters to Pulsar 3.0.x or 3.3.x before upgrading to Pulsar 4.0.0.

🚀 Debezium 3.0.0

Debezium has announced the release of Debezium 3.0.0, introducing a host of features and improvements, including changes to core Debezium, updates to various connectors, support for new data types, and enhanced metrics tracking.