Acquisitions and Investments – Towards a Future of APIs Everywhere
www.3scale.net
on 04/27/2013
Excerpt: The last 10 days have seen an impressive amount of change in the API space with Mashery and Layer7 both getting acquired, Mulesoft acquiring ProgrammableWeb from Alcatel Lucent and also our own announcement of $4. 2 Million of investment. The moves are exciting and show that APIs are now becoming increasingly important to many businesses. Some great takes are already emerging on what it means for the space as a whole – see here, here and here and we figured we’d add some perspectives too. In addition to excitement about the space and great feedback we’ve had we also a had direct questions which we can happily answers!... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Economy, API-Evangelist, API-Stack
Why the Uproar for API Management? Mashery, Layer 7, and 3Scale Bask in Recent Attention
blog.programmableweb.com
on 04/26/2013
Excerpt: The past week might go down in API history as one of the biggest developments in the ever progressing API economy. Three API management companies embraced an unprecedented spotlight in the API world. First, Intel, the king of processors, paid $180 million to acquire Mashery. Next, software giant CA Technologies, snatched up Layer 7. Finally, 3Scale announced a brand new round of funding ($4. 2 million). The question must arise: why have two Fortune 1000 companies and multiple venture capitalists all of a sudden poured hundreds of millions into the API space? The answer seems pretty obvious. Companies invest for future return; therefore, there must be a common belief that API management will pay returns in the future.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Layer 7, ProgrammableWeb
3scale Raises $4.2 Million to Broaden API Adoption
www.3scale.net
on 04/24/2013
Excerpt: SAN FRANCISO, CA – April 24, 2013 – 3scale (http://www. 3scale. net), the San Francisco and Barcelona-based API Management solutions provider, today announced $4. 2 million of new funding in a round from Javelin Venture Partners and Costanoa Venture Capital. APIs are a key infrastructure component for online businesses – powering mobile applications, partnership programs and innovation. Increasingly, as many businesses become more software driven, having a well-managed API available to customers and partners is becoming key to success in the marketplace. The growth of the number of APIs is exponential and forecasted to reach into the millions over the next 5 years.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Management, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Investment
Surveying 1000 APIs – Think APIs are for Startups Only? Think Again!
architects.dzone.com
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: Steven is CEO and Co-founder of 3scale networks: one of the worlds leading providers of API Management Infrastructure (http://www. 3scale. net). Steven is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 6 posts at DZone. You can read more from them at their website. View Full User Profile
Surveying 1000 APIs – Think APIs are for Startups Only? Think Again! As the API Ecosystem grows, at 3scale we often asked where growth is fastest and how to characterize certain trends.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API-Evangelist, API-Stack
API Rate Limit Kung-Fu: The Server Side
www.dzone.com
on 02/16/2013
Excerpt: Adam Green has a great post on programmableweb this morning about Twitter API Rate Limits – with great tips on how to get the most out of the Twitter API without hitting rate limits. Sharing API calls between your server side and the client’s browser is actually critical to making some Twitter integrations work and there’s a great tip on how to use server side caching:
You can call the API from the browser, display the results, and then call your server with the data you got from the API. In effect you are using all of the user browsers as a large collection grid. This approach can be used to reduce the amount of API calls you have to do from the server.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Dzone.com:, Front, Googlereader, Ifttt, Latest, page
API Design & Development Guidelines
www.dzone.com
on 02/16/2013
Excerpt: Steven is CEO and Co-founder of 3scale networks: one of the worlds leading providers of API Management Infrastructure (http://www. 3scale. net). Steven is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 3 posts at DZone. You can read more from them at their website. View Full User Profile
The 3scale tech team is being increasingly asked information, tips, recommendations, or examples about API design and development best practices. This is great! We love that! It confirms that APIs are hot and a key element of today’s cloud computing, cloud services and cloud apps! And it also underpins the need for great resources about API design and development.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Dzone.com:, Front, Googlereader, Ifttt, Latest, page
Quickstart tutorial on how to deploy an API on Amazon EC2 for Amazon Web Services (AWS) rookies
www.3scale.net
on 02/01/2013
Excerpt: At 3scale we find Amazon to be a fantastic platform for running APIs due to the complete control you have on the application stack. For people new to AWS the learning curve is quite steep. So we put together our best practices into this short tutorial. Besides Amazon EC2 we will use the Ruby Grape gem to create the API interface and an Nginx proxy to handle access control. Best of all everything in this tutorial is completely FREE :)
For the purpose of this tutorial you will need a running API based on Ruby and Thin server. If you don’t have one you can simply clone an example repo as described below (in the “Deploying the Application” section).... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Management, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, AWS, NGINX
API Economics: Create More Value than you Capture
www.3scale.net
on 12/31/2012
Excerpt: This morning Tim O’Reilly posted an inspiring slideshare presentation on measuring the economic impact of sharing [embedded below] – some of the content has been posted before but it’s a great reminder of what we see as one of the core principles behind APIs:
Create more Value than you Capture! In other words – make the API such that there is benefit for others to use – perhaps even vastly more benefit than there is for yourself. Breaking it down, there are really two parts of the statement:
Create Value. Do not attempt to capture all the value you create.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, APIManagement, APIs
Building Great APIs (part IV): Great Developer Support
www.3scale.net
on 12/16/2012
Excerpt: This is a challenging topic since great support is hard to pin down and has that “you know it when we see it, but kind of hard to define” type of quality. When trying to pin it down, it would be easy to put together put together a list of buzzwords (timely, friendly, to the point etc. ) and leave it at that. Beyind, this we also typically think of support as purely the human interactions which we experience when requesting support.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Management, API-Evangelist, Support
Building Great APIs (Part III) – The need for API Management and Infrastructure
www.3scale.net
on 11/30/2012
Excerpt: In previous parts of the series we covered the need for APIs to be be valuable, have business models and be easy to adopt. In this post we’ll cover the the next item on the list – API Management:
The API Should be Managed. What does this mean? and why would it be important? Before getting started, we should acknowledge that 3scale provides tools and infrastructure to do exactly this so this might appear self serving! However, there are multiple ways to API Management in place – not just using a third party, so we encourage people to explore what’s best for them whether it be home build, open source, with a vendor or a combination of the these. Having said that you can give 3scale’s tools a whirl free to test them out!... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Management, API-Evangelist
Excerpt: The past week might go down in API history as one of the biggest developments in the ever progressing API economy. Three API management companies embraced an unprecedented spotlight in the API world. First, Intel, the king of processors, paid $180 million to acquire Mashery. Next, software giant CA Technologies, snatched up Layer 7. Finally, 3Scale announced a brand new round of funding ($4. 2 million). The question must arise: why have two Fortune 1000 companies and multiple venture capitalists all of a sudden poured hundreds of millions into the API space? The answer seems pretty obvious. Companies invest for future return; therefore, there must be a common belief that API management will pay returns in the future.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Layer 7, ProgrammableWeb
3scale Raises $4.2 Million to Broaden API Adoption
www.3scale.net
on 04/24/2013
Excerpt: SAN FRANCISO, CA – April 24, 2013 – 3scale (http://www. 3scale. net), the San Francisco and Barcelona-based API Management solutions provider, today announced $4. 2 million of new funding in a round from Javelin Venture Partners and Costanoa Venture Capital. APIs are a key infrastructure component for online businesses – powering mobile applications, partnership programs and innovation. Increasingly, as many businesses become more software driven, having a well-managed API available to customers and partners is becoming key to success in the marketplace. The growth of the number of APIs is exponential and forecasted to reach into the millions over the next 5 years.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Management, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Investment
Surveying 1000 APIs – Think APIs are for Startups Only? Think Again!
architects.dzone.com
on 03/05/2013
Excerpt: Steven is CEO and Co-founder of 3scale networks: one of the worlds leading providers of API Management Infrastructure (http://www. 3scale. net). Steven is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 6 posts at DZone. You can read more from them at their website. View Full User Profile
Surveying 1000 APIs – Think APIs are for Startups Only? Think Again! As the API Ecosystem grows, at 3scale we often asked where growth is fastest and how to characterize certain trends.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API-Evangelist, API-Stack
API Rate Limit Kung-Fu: The Server Side
www.dzone.com
on 02/16/2013
Excerpt: Adam Green has a great post on programmableweb this morning about Twitter API Rate Limits – with great tips on how to get the most out of the Twitter API without hitting rate limits. Sharing API calls between your server side and the client’s browser is actually critical to making some Twitter integrations work and there’s a great tip on how to use server side caching:
You can call the API from the browser, display the results, and then call your server with the data you got from the API. In effect you are using all of the user browsers as a large collection grid. This approach can be used to reduce the amount of API calls you have to do from the server.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Dzone.com:, Front, Googlereader, Ifttt, Latest, page
API Design & Development Guidelines
www.dzone.com
on 02/16/2013
Excerpt: Steven is CEO and Co-founder of 3scale networks: one of the worlds leading providers of API Management Infrastructure (http://www. 3scale. net). Steven is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 3 posts at DZone. You can read more from them at their website. View Full User Profile
The 3scale tech team is being increasingly asked information, tips, recommendations, or examples about API design and development best practices. This is great! We love that! It confirms that APIs are hot and a key element of today’s cloud computing, cloud services and cloud apps! And it also underpins the need for great resources about API design and development.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Dzone.com:, Front, Googlereader, Ifttt, Latest, page
Quickstart tutorial on how to deploy an API on Amazon EC2 for Amazon Web Services (AWS) rookies
www.3scale.net
on 02/01/2013
Excerpt: At 3scale we find Amazon to be a fantastic platform for running APIs due to the complete control you have on the application stack. For people new to AWS the learning curve is quite steep. So we put together our best practices into this short tutorial. Besides Amazon EC2 we will use the Ruby Grape gem to create the API interface and an Nginx proxy to handle access control. Best of all everything in this tutorial is completely FREE :)
For the purpose of this tutorial you will need a running API based on Ruby and Thin server. If you don’t have one you can simply clone an example repo as described below (in the “Deploying the Application” section).... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Management, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, AWS, NGINX
API Economics: Create More Value than you Capture
www.3scale.net
on 12/31/2012
Excerpt: This morning Tim O’Reilly posted an inspiring slideshare presentation on measuring the economic impact of sharing [embedded below] – some of the content has been posted before but it’s a great reminder of what we see as one of the core principles behind APIs:
Create more Value than you Capture! In other words – make the API such that there is benefit for others to use – perhaps even vastly more benefit than there is for yourself. Breaking it down, there are really two parts of the statement:
Create Value. Do not attempt to capture all the value you create.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, APIManagement, APIs
Building Great APIs (part IV): Great Developer Support
www.3scale.net
on 12/16/2012
Excerpt: This is a challenging topic since great support is hard to pin down and has that “you know it when we see it, but kind of hard to define” type of quality. When trying to pin it down, it would be easy to put together put together a list of buzzwords (timely, friendly, to the point etc. ) and leave it at that. Beyind, this we also typically think of support as purely the human interactions which we experience when requesting support.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Management, API-Evangelist, Support
Building Great APIs (Part III) – The need for API Management and Infrastructure
www.3scale.net
on 11/30/2012
Excerpt: In previous parts of the series we covered the need for APIs to be be valuable, have business models and be easy to adopt. In this post we’ll cover the the next item on the list – API Management:
The API Should be Managed. What does this mean? and why would it be important? Before getting started, we should acknowledge that 3scale provides tools and infrastructure to do exactly this so this might appear self serving! However, there are multiple ways to API Management in place – not just using a third party, so we encourage people to explore what’s best for them whether it be home build, open source, with a vendor or a combination of the these. Having said that you can give 3scale’s tools a whirl free to test them out!... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Management, API-Evangelist
Excerpt: Steven is CEO and Co-founder of 3scale networks: one of the worlds leading providers of API Management Infrastructure (http://www. 3scale. net). Steven is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 6 posts at DZone. You can read more from them at their website. View Full User Profile Surveying 1000 APIs – Think APIs are for Startups Only? Think Again! As the API Ecosystem grows, at 3scale we often asked where growth is fastest and how to characterize certain trends.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API-Evangelist, API-Stack
API Rate Limit Kung-Fu: The Server Side
www.dzone.com
on 02/16/2013
Excerpt: Adam Green has a great post on programmableweb this morning about Twitter API Rate Limits – with great tips on how to get the most out of the Twitter API without hitting rate limits. Sharing API calls between your server side and the client’s browser is actually critical to making some Twitter integrations work and there’s a great tip on how to use server side caching:
You can call the API from the browser, display the results, and then call your server with the data you got from the API. In effect you are using all of the user browsers as a large collection grid. This approach can be used to reduce the amount of API calls you have to do from the server.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Dzone.com:, Front, Googlereader, Ifttt, Latest, page
API Design & Development Guidelines
www.dzone.com
on 02/16/2013
Excerpt: Steven is CEO and Co-founder of 3scale networks: one of the worlds leading providers of API Management Infrastructure (http://www. 3scale. net). Steven is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 3 posts at DZone. You can read more from them at their website. View Full User Profile
The 3scale tech team is being increasingly asked information, tips, recommendations, or examples about API design and development best practices. This is great! We love that! It confirms that APIs are hot and a key element of today’s cloud computing, cloud services and cloud apps! And it also underpins the need for great resources about API design and development.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Dzone.com:, Front, Googlereader, Ifttt, Latest, page
Quickstart tutorial on how to deploy an API on Amazon EC2 for Amazon Web Services (AWS) rookies
www.3scale.net
on 02/01/2013
Excerpt: At 3scale we find Amazon to be a fantastic platform for running APIs due to the complete control you have on the application stack. For people new to AWS the learning curve is quite steep. So we put together our best practices into this short tutorial. Besides Amazon EC2 we will use the Ruby Grape gem to create the API interface and an Nginx proxy to handle access control. Best of all everything in this tutorial is completely FREE :)
For the purpose of this tutorial you will need a running API based on Ruby and Thin server. If you don’t have one you can simply clone an example repo as described below (in the “Deploying the Application” section).... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Management, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, AWS, NGINX
API Economics: Create More Value than you Capture
www.3scale.net
on 12/31/2012
Excerpt: This morning Tim O’Reilly posted an inspiring slideshare presentation on measuring the economic impact of sharing [embedded below] – some of the content has been posted before but it’s a great reminder of what we see as one of the core principles behind APIs:
Create more Value than you Capture! In other words – make the API such that there is benefit for others to use – perhaps even vastly more benefit than there is for yourself. Breaking it down, there are really two parts of the statement:
Create Value. Do not attempt to capture all the value you create.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, APIManagement, APIs
Building Great APIs (part IV): Great Developer Support
www.3scale.net
on 12/16/2012
Excerpt: This is a challenging topic since great support is hard to pin down and has that “you know it when we see it, but kind of hard to define” type of quality. When trying to pin it down, it would be easy to put together put together a list of buzzwords (timely, friendly, to the point etc. ) and leave it at that. Beyind, this we also typically think of support as purely the human interactions which we experience when requesting support.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Management, API-Evangelist, Support
Building Great APIs (Part III) – The need for API Management and Infrastructure
www.3scale.net
on 11/30/2012
Excerpt: In previous parts of the series we covered the need for APIs to be be valuable, have business models and be easy to adopt. In this post we’ll cover the the next item on the list – API Management:
The API Should be Managed. What does this mean? and why would it be important? Before getting started, we should acknowledge that 3scale provides tools and infrastructure to do exactly this so this might appear self serving! However, there are multiple ways to API Management in place – not just using a third party, so we encourage people to explore what’s best for them whether it be home build, open source, with a vendor or a combination of the these. Having said that you can give 3scale’s tools a whirl free to test them out!... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Management, API-Evangelist
Excerpt: Steven is CEO and Co-founder of 3scale networks: one of the worlds leading providers of API Management Infrastructure (http://www. 3scale. net). Steven is a DZone MVB and is not an employee of DZone and has posted 3 posts at DZone. You can read more from them at their website. View Full User Profile The 3scale tech team is being increasingly asked information, tips, recommendations, or examples about API design and development best practices. This is great! We love that! It confirms that APIs are hot and a key element of today’s cloud computing, cloud services and cloud apps! And it also underpins the need for great resources about API design and development.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, Dzone.com:, Front, Googlereader, Ifttt, Latest, page
Quickstart tutorial on how to deploy an API on Amazon EC2 for Amazon Web Services (AWS) rookies
www.3scale.net
on 02/01/2013
Excerpt: At 3scale we find Amazon to be a fantastic platform for running APIs due to the complete control you have on the application stack. For people new to AWS the learning curve is quite steep. So we put together our best practices into this short tutorial. Besides Amazon EC2 we will use the Ruby Grape gem to create the API interface and an Nginx proxy to handle access control. Best of all everything in this tutorial is completely FREE :)
For the purpose of this tutorial you will need a running API based on Ruby and Thin server. If you don’t have one you can simply clone an example repo as described below (in the “Deploying the Application” section).... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Management, API-Evangelist, API-Stack, AWS, NGINX
API Economics: Create More Value than you Capture
www.3scale.net
on 12/31/2012
Excerpt: This morning Tim O’Reilly posted an inspiring slideshare presentation on measuring the economic impact of sharing [embedded below] – some of the content has been posted before but it’s a great reminder of what we see as one of the core principles behind APIs:
Create more Value than you Capture! In other words – make the API such that there is benefit for others to use – perhaps even vastly more benefit than there is for yourself. Breaking it down, there are really two parts of the statement:
Create Value. Do not attempt to capture all the value you create.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, APIManagement, APIs
Building Great APIs (part IV): Great Developer Support
www.3scale.net
on 12/16/2012
Excerpt: This is a challenging topic since great support is hard to pin down and has that “you know it when we see it, but kind of hard to define” type of quality. When trying to pin it down, it would be easy to put together put together a list of buzzwords (timely, friendly, to the point etc. ) and leave it at that. Beyind, this we also typically think of support as purely the human interactions which we experience when requesting support.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Management, API-Evangelist, Support
Building Great APIs (Part III) – The need for API Management and Infrastructure
www.3scale.net
on 11/30/2012
Excerpt: In previous parts of the series we covered the need for APIs to be be valuable, have business models and be easy to adopt. In this post we’ll cover the the next item on the list – API Management:
The API Should be Managed. What does this mean? and why would it be important? Before getting started, we should acknowledge that 3scale provides tools and infrastructure to do exactly this so this might appear self serving! However, there are multiple ways to API Management in place – not just using a third party, so we encourage people to explore what’s best for them whether it be home build, open source, with a vendor or a combination of the these. Having said that you can give 3scale’s tools a whirl free to test them out!... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Management, API-Evangelist
Excerpt: This morning Tim O’Reilly posted an inspiring slideshare presentation on measuring the economic impact of sharing [embedded below] – some of the content has been posted before but it’s a great reminder of what we see as one of the core principles behind APIs: Create more Value than you Capture! In other words – make the API such that there is benefit for others to use – perhaps even vastly more benefit than there is for yourself. Breaking it down, there are really two parts of the statement: Create Value. Do not attempt to capture all the value you create.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, APIManagement, APIs
Building Great APIs (part IV): Great Developer Support
www.3scale.net
on 12/16/2012
Excerpt: This is a challenging topic since great support is hard to pin down and has that “you know it when we see it, but kind of hard to define” type of quality. When trying to pin it down, it would be easy to put together put together a list of buzzwords (timely, friendly, to the point etc. ) and leave it at that. Beyind, this we also typically think of support as purely the human interactions which we experience when requesting support.... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Management, API-Evangelist, Support
Building Great APIs (Part III) – The need for API Management and Infrastructure
www.3scale.net
on 11/30/2012
Excerpt: In previous parts of the series we covered the need for APIs to be be valuable, have business models and be easy to adopt. In this post we’ll cover the the next item on the list – API Management:
The API Should be Managed. What does this mean? and why would it be important? Before getting started, we should acknowledge that 3scale provides tools and infrastructure to do exactly this so this might appear self serving! However, there are multiple ways to API Management in place – not just using a third party, so we encourage people to explore what’s best for them whether it be home build, open source, with a vendor or a combination of the these. Having said that you can give 3scale’s tools a whirl free to test them out!... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Management, API-Evangelist
Excerpt: In previous parts of the series we covered the need for APIs to be be valuable, have business models and be easy to adopt. In this post we’ll cover the the next item on the list – API Management: The API Should be Managed. What does this mean? and why would it be important? Before getting started, we should acknowledge that 3scale provides tools and infrastructure to do exactly this so this might appear self serving! However, there are multiple ways to API Management in place – not just using a third party, so we encourage people to explore what’s best for them whether it be home build, open source, with a vendor or a combination of the these. Having said that you can give 3scale’s tools a whirl free to test them out!... read the full post.
Tags: 3Scale, API Management, API-Evangelist
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