This Week In The API Connected World: Feb 18th
At Stamplay we like to stay on top of the API scene, and each week we come across various articles and news in this exciting area of tech. We thought we’d share some of the most interesting developments that have been flagged by our team right here on our blog! We hope you find it helpful.
Kimono Labs Acquired, Shutting Down Service
This Monday, scraping-as-a-service provider Kimono Labs announced that it is being acquired by Palantir Technologies and will be closing its service. That’s bad news for the more than 125,000 developers that were using Kimono’s hosted cloud service.
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Google Announces Cloud Functions, Takes On AWS Lambda
The trend towards serverless programming is gaining more traction. Big cloud vendors are going full steam with the renewed belief that developer should focus on code and string together applications by orchestrating various services. The whole task of provisioning servers to run the code is handled by the platforms themselves.
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10 Questions Your API Docs Should Address
The success or failure of an API often lies with its documentation. A poorly documented API that offers few answers and gives little support to the developers you wish to use it will eventually send them searching for support, and APIs, elsewhere.
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Mobile World Congress Focuses On Smart Cities & API’s
This year’s Mobile World Congress is set to explore API’s, mobile, address the Industrial Internet of Things, wearables, and smart city use cases. This is a great chance for professionals in the software/hardware industry to get a glance at upcoming technologies.
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How Developers Competed To Drive Innovation Through Nexmo APIs
Nexmo, a cloud based SMS API, challenged developers to build open source integrations that added Verify or Number Insight APIs to customer relationship management platforms, content management systems, and eCommerce solutions.
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Ordering From The “Secret Menu” At ACH Payment Platforms
For the last 40-plus years, the nation’s little known bank transfer network, or the Automated Clearing House (ACH) system, has offered larger and more developed businesses a dependable and flexible way to initiate bank transfers, although this process is very difficult for developers to integrate. Now they are releasing a new 3rd party API that makes this process smooth and easy.
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