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API Development

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Blog Posts

Data Modeling

Why Your API Strategy Fails Without a Proper Data Model

Optimize your API strategy with robust data modeling. Discover how Negroni by Lonti ensures scalable, consistent, and reliable APIs by integrating a solid data model foundation.
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API Development

What is the API Economy & why it matters to your business

When a single organisation unlocks its’ proprietary systems, processes and/or data by publishing an API it creates value, and potentially a revenue stream.
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API Integration

We killed the connector

A connector is a piece of code that wraps an external API so that it can communicate with your application. Huh? Ok, well, let’s run through practical example...
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API Development

We Couldn’t Find Any Free Business APIs to Prototype—So We Built Them

Discover how apiexplorer.io simplifies prototyping with free, realistic business APIs, eliminating the need for signups or approvals. Speed up app development effortlessly with Lonti’s low-code tools.
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API Development

Unleashing the power of RESTful APIs: a deep dive into OpenAPI and Swagger

Unleash the power of RESTful APIs with OpenAPI and Swagger. Learn about the history, benefits, and how to get started using this specification to document and interact with APIs. Standardize, document, test, and generate code with OpenAPI and Swagger, language independently.
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API Development

Understanding HTTP methods in REST API development

Learn about the different HTTP methods (GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, etc.) and their usage in REST APIs. Understand their definitions, usage, limitations, and considerations for effective API design. Get a comprehensive guide for building robust and efficient APIs.
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API Development

The key ingredients of RESTful APIs: resources, representations, and statelessness

Discover the key concepts of RESTful API development - resources, representations, statelessness - and build scalable, reliable APIs for modern apps.
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API Development

Stop Wasting Time Writing Code for APIs

Discover how Martini's low-code approach revolutionizes API development by eliminating repetitive tasks, enhancing flexibility, and accelerating delivery for developers.
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API Development

REST vs SOAP: A comprehensive guide to their differences

Discover key differences between REST and SOAP APIs. Learn pros and cons, functionality, security, use cases, and how to choose the right API standard.
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Podcast Episodes

What’s wrong with SOLID and Test Driven Development with Daniel Terhorst-North

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While SOLID is the known standard when it comes to software design and architecture, it may be hard to apply for some as it limits developers to specific techniques in going about it. In this episode, Daniel Terhorst-North, originator of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD)and Deliberate Discovery, presents his arguments on why SOLID isn't exactly the best bet when if comes to design principles, offering an alternative that can help against the misapplications of various agile practices.

On matters of cloud success with Ian Moyse

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Technology Sales Leader and Cloud - Social Influencer Ian Moyse explains how cloud adoption has driven the innovation of efficiently delivering the needed services of enterprises especially in the time of pandemic, how the cloud will affect future technologies, and how organizations can respond to the increasing security challenges brought by the rise of cloud adoption.

How Toro Cloud killed the API connector

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TORO Cloud's CEO and Founder David Brown and Software Architect Vivien Jovet talk about connectors, and how connectors are used as a way to facilitate connections with integration platforms.

Toro Cloud looks back at 2020

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We take you back to 2020 on how our company strived to address all the challenges we encountered in the past year while also detailing how we have created platforms to manage the digital transformation and integration of businesses.

Why you should be using a hexagonal architecture for microservices with José Haro Peralta

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Our guest for today is a consultant, author, and instructor. He's the founder of microapis.io and the author of "Microservice APIs". Recognised as a thought leader in the fields of cloud computing, DevOps, and automation, he speaks regularly at international conferences and frequently organizes public workshops and seminars.

API Design Smells with Keith Casey

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In this episode, we talk about the “smells” in API design that one should look out for. Keith Casey from ngrok’s Product and GTM Team tells us how to evaluate your API design, what a great (and terrible) API design looks like and how API design smells can be dealt with. He also talks to us about his time trying to figure out how much data is in the Library of Congress and his underlying goal of bringing good technology to the hands of good people.

Data and AI with David Colls

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One of the ways organisations are looking to unlock more avenues for business and operational growth is through data. Couple it with AI, the possibilities are almost endless. In this round of cocktails, ThoughtWorks Australia’s Director of Data and AI Practice David Colls talks to us about data and AI capabilities and how they can be tapped for product development and business strategies. He also shares the ethical and societal implications of the growth of big data and AI and what our responsibilities are in the process.

A DynamoDB deep dive with Alex DeBrie

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Getting started on DynamoDB? Join us for a round. This episode, we take a deep dive into DynamoDB with consultant and author of "The DynamoDB Book Alex DeBrie, who talks to us about the database's key offerings, the problems it solves, use-cases and how to work around its consistency models.

API product management with Deepa Goyal

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How does one go about managing API products in an organisation? Why is it important that we view APIs as products and practice product thinking? Postman’s Product Strategy Leader Deep Goyal answers as she joins us in this round of cocktails. She also shares with us her experience and expertise during the course of her career as a former API Product Manager for Twilio and Paypal and tells us how evolving one important API metric can generate better revenues for an organisation.

Making of a Product Manager with Matt LeMay

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What does it take for one to become a Product Manager? We find out in this episode. In this edition of Coding Over Cocktails, we are joined by Matt LeMay, author of Agile For Everybody and Product Management in Practice and co-founder of Sudden Compass, and talks to us about the responsibilities and qualities that entail being a product manager and how much technical knowledge is needed for the role. He also tells us why he is tired of Agile and how the power we delegate to made-up concepts is “weird.”