Netflix Open Sources “Resilience Engineering” Code Library

Curtis C. Chen, November 30th, 2012

NetflixHystrix: it’s the genus name for “Old World” porcupines, and it’s also the latest release from Netflix. But you won’t see it in their catalog of movie and TV titles, and you can’t add it to your queue, because it’s not content–it’s how Netflix makes sure its content is highly available. Now, Netflix has made Hystrix open source, for anyone using Amazon Web Services (AWS) to implement in their own cloud applications. Read on for details on this “resilience engineering” code library.


Google Cloud Platform Announces Infrastucture improvements and price cuts

Romin Irani, November 30th, 2012

Google Compute EngineGoogle wants to be considered as a serious contender in Cloud Infrastructure space. During Google I/O, it had announced the Google Compute Engine to take Amazon head on in the IaaS segment. Since then, it has rolled out infrastructural improvements and platform features across the entire suite of Google Cloud Platform products ranging from Google Storage, App Engine and more.


Mobile Backend-as-a-Service (MBaaS): Give me Liberty or give me… Convenience?

Guest Author, November 29th, 2012

MBaaS provides mobile developers with LIBERTY and CONVENIENCE. LIBERTY in the sense of self-determination, control and an independent destiny–they can communicate with, manage, understand and serve their users without being beholden to external influences. An app developer who doesn’t control their users has no independent future. CONVENIENCE is a simple matter of reducing time-to-market, risk and cost of development.


Cityworks APIs: Ramping Up City Government Responsiveness & Efficiency

Greg Bates, November 13th, 2012

CityworksPicture this: you are a city employee in charge of fixing pot holes, or cleaning up illegal dumping. You have a gazzillion requests flooding in from well-meaning citizens just overjoyed to send you a text or a picture or both every time they hit a pot hole. How you gonna deal? The Cityworks API helps manage a city’s assets–when maintenance and replacement needs to be scheduled, and organizing cost-effective inspections and assessments.


Video: RESTful API Architecture

Adam DuVander, November 3rd, 2012

Intel Developer Services BetaWhen ProgrammableWeb organized a track on social APIs at DataWeek in September, we were delighted to be supported in the effort by Intel. We also invited the company’s Blake Dournaee to give the audience an overview of RESTful API architecture.


CopperEgg Announces Availability of RESTful API for Software-Defined Monitoring

Janet Wagner, October 22nd, 2012

CopperEggCopperEgg, a real-time server monitoring solutions provider, has just announced the availability of the CopperEgg RESTful API, offering the ability to enable software-defined monitoring and highly scalable monitoring deployments.


Alcatel-Lucent Launches Nine “New Conversation APIs” and Accompanying Developer Portal

Janet Wagner, October 15th, 2012

Alcatel-Lucent New ConversationAlcatel-Lucent, a leading global communications solutions provider and the parent company of ProgrammableWeb, has introduced a suite of nine “New Conversation APIs” that provide developers with easy access to IMS (IP Multimedia Subsystem) capabilities such as high definition voice and video, audio/video conferencing, interactive voice, messaging and call control. In addition, Alcatel-Lucent has launched a Developer Portal that allows access to the New Conversation APIs and a sandbox for developers to build and test their applications.


Unifying a Fragmented “Internet of Things”

Michael Vizard, October 9th, 2012

While just about everybody would agree that the “Internet of Things” within the context of machine-to-machine (M2M) applications is one of the next big things on the Web, turning that vision into reality has been problematic because of the lack of standards.


Open Government Platform Aims at Businesses

Adam DuVander, October 2nd, 2012

Socrata Open Data A company best known for its tools to help governments open their data now wants to provide the same aid to businesses. Socrata today launched the API Foundary, which can convert Excel spreadsheets (and other data repositories) into customizable APIs. The company will continue to focus on governments, but it also is courting enterprises–or anyone who wants to share data and “mass produce APIs.”


Open Source apiGrove Aims to Take Root, Grow APIs

Adam DuVander, September 6th, 2012

The API ecosystem has doubled in a year, but there are many companies yet to embrace the movement. A new open source management service, apiGrove, aims to ease these businesses into the future. The software is available on GitHub with Alcatel-Lucent (ProgrammableWeb’s parent company) as lead contributor, with support from other influential organizations.


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