API Management Virtual User Group
Stay Informed by Staying Connected!
As a valued API Management customer, Axway invites you to join us at upcoming virtual User Group sessions. This is a great opportunity for you to connect with the Axway team and fellow customers to share ideas, consult on best practices and discover innovative approaches being used in the Axway community. Please plan on joining us!
Topic: Best Practices for Container-based Deployment & Orchestration
API Management v7.6.2 offers a Docker based deployment orchestrated by Kubernetes. It is called Externally Managed Topology (EMT). During this session, we will review some of the reasons for introducing EMT for API Management. We also will demo a new feature and implementation details of the Kubernetes based deployment.
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How the Belgian government innovates thanks to APIs
A nonprofit Belgian company, provided a new, API-centric platform to modernize the Belgium government’s data architecture and leverage new technologies and security protocols while offering greater efficiency and cost-effectiveness. The main objective is to work actively and in a manner that is sustainable for the future.
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How to Succeed as an Open Source Developer: From Education to Contributor
Working in the open source industry is a very rewarding career move, especially since the future of it looks bright. With statistics showing more companies are going to rely on open source applications in the future to save money buying commercial products, job openings will become tremendous.
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From Google to Axway: Brian Pagano brings a new vibe to Axway
Making the decision to leave his position at Google to head up Axway’s Catalyst team, Brian Pagano wasn’t certain how much of a culture shock he would experience in his new adventure. But Brian says his transition to Axway has been a terrific experience all around.
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Experience Design: API Portals foster engagement and innovation
API portals give APIs a home whether you’re only looking for internal users to reach them. Since APIs are the medium to build great experiences, the portal design, when set to inspire, models great experiences for those consuming them. Offering tangible shop windows and welcome signs to business users and anyone looking at your API to decide if its right for them encourages adoption. A welcome community, then is the key to a healthy and thriving API ecosystem, especially if you’re looking to attract platform adoption. We see this adoption shift enterprise software through the interaction of open source communities who not only monetized their inventions but also created a great place for technology to live.
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Ecosystems and hybrid integration
The theme of #BetterTogether holds strong with Axway this year. This was the theme behind this year’s internal kickoffs as well as our big IMAGINE SUMMIT customer events. This theme ties our organization together and embraces our customers, partners and staff for a greater potential than we can achieve alone. Further, this theme naturally aligns with and is behind the premise of a hybrid integration platform strategy. There are too many facets of #BetterTogether in talking hybrid integration platforms to fully unpack in this note; you can get cues in this blog post about hybrid integration platforms.
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How Open Source Is Democratizing Technology
Many of the software products that everyone uses are open source. The Linux operating system, the Apache Web server, and a large number of software development systems are all open-source software. Their being open source is one of the reasons they’re so widely used. They’re more stable, more accessible to public view, and more trusted than they would be as unpublished proprietary code.
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Process Health in Your Organization: Preparing for Excellence
Before starting a new physical activity, a health check is always a good idea, to see if you are in good shape to meet your goals. It is the same for your organization and your operational excellence initiative. A check-up of your process health is essential, but just like exercising, it can be tough to get started. Here are a few suggestions on how to proceed!
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What do a YouTube video and Operational Intelligence have in common?
In 2011, DoSomething.org, a non-profit organization, posted a video on YouTube featuring celebrities asking young people to donate used sports equipment to youth in need. That video was viewed by 1.5 million people. Success, you might think? Well, only eight viewers signed up to donate. Of those eight, none actually donated.
What happened?
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Hunting for Easter Treats (and Process Optimization) with Signavio
Around the Easter holidays is a great time to get your team together, delve into your organization's business processes, and do a little process optimization. Before you hop to it, read on to find what you need to consider, and how Signavio can help make sure you don't end up with egg on your face.
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Get Started with AMPLIFY Central – Secure an API
Watch this video to learn how to secure an API in AMPLIFY Central using an API key as an example. You’ll learn how to apply an API key client authentication policy to an API, create an app to manage access to the API, and deploy and test the secured API.
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How Integration as a Platform (iPaaS) is changing Enterprise integration
The integration platform as a service (iPaaS) market is not just growing, it is accelerating. iPaaS is a cloud service that provides a platform to support applications that involve a combination of data sources, cloud-based applications and others.
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Don't Want Your Business to Stagnate? Keep Your Customer At the Centre
Your culture needs to be customer-first, but more importantly, it needs to be action oriented
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Axway and Microsoft partner to bring quicker solutions to IT challenges
Axway and Microsoft share a special “Gold partnership” bond that brings many benefits to both companies.
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Get started with AMPLIFY Central – Register an API
Watch this video to learn how to register an API as an API proxy in AMPLIFY Central using the Star Wars API as an example. You’ll learn how to import a Swagger (OpenAPI) definition for an API, create an API proxy for the API, and deploy and test the proxy both in AMPLIFY Central and Postman.
This video is part of the Get started with AMPLIFY Central series. This series demonstrates the API management capabilities of AMPLIFY Central and is ideal for new users.
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RENOIR, MATISSE, JACKSON POLLOCK—MEET APIS
Who would have thought a few years ago that the words APIs and masterpieces would go hand-in-hand? It’s certainly a wild thought, but nowadays, that’s simply the case.
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A real-time look at event-driven architecture
API Management – and specifically event-driven architecture (EDA) – is a critical piece of a hybrid integration platform (HIP). Event-driven API management continues to gain importance due to the growth in deployment of solutions that create or leverage “events” including IoT, blockchain, mobile and microservices.
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DevSecOps: Building a Culture of Responsibility for Network Security
If nothing else, the recent hack of Equifax that compromised approximately 143 million American credit records is a signal that even our most trusted networks are vulnerable.
However, security breaches are almost always the result of an exploitation of a simple vulnerability. The best firewalls in the world can’t stand up to valid credentials. In fact, there is emerging evidence that perhaps the Equifax breach was the result of an easy-to-guess password.
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How to Implement OAuth with PKCE using Okta & API Management
If you are building a mobile application, then the authorization code flow with a Proof Key for Code Exchange (PKCE) is the recommended method for controlling the access between your application and a resource server.
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Learning From Your Process Mistakes
Too often, people - and businesses! - are unwilling to admit to a gap in knowledge, and much more likely to move forward blindly hoping that ignoring an issue will make it slowly disappear. But there is a better way! Read on to find out how you can use process mining to capture the value in your process mistakes, and turn those mistakes into strengths.
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