We just don’t talk enough about the intersection of APIs and mobile
middleware, but they really are a match made in heaven. APIs are the
prevailing interface model, mobile middleware provides the Enterprise grade
security and scalability, and HTML5 keeps mobile fragmentation costs at bay.
It all came together last week at IDF 2013. Here is a picture of the demo pod
rocking a full end-to-end demo with Expressway API Manager.
Expressway API and Mobile Middleware Demo @ IDF2013
The use case was a conference room booking demo which helps large Enterprises
(like Intel) optimize the use of physical space for meetings and
collaboration. Expressway provided the governance, mediation and security
layer by taking XML and JSON room sensor data and optimizing it for mobile
devices through caching and compression. Further, rather than worry too much
about sensitive information l... (more)
Here is a link to the API whitepaper produced by Dan Woods, Chief Analyst
CITO Research (of API book fame); Blake Dournaee, Intel Product Manager;
and yours truly. I think it came out better than expected and has a
foreword by John Musser of ProgrammableWeb (Guru in API space). Given that
everything is moving to Cloud and Mobile, you might want to spend a few
minutes to check out the best practices of developing, implementing, securing
and managing your APIs properly regardless of whether you are thinking IasS,
PaaS or SaaS. What makes us unique is the combination of McAfee sec... (more)
The Enterprise software industry has grown up around the standard three
tier-architecture for web applications, which pioneered circa 1995. This
architecture is ideal for web browsers, which have become the universal
client of the Enterprise.
With the introduction of Enterprise mobile applications, we are seeing new
avenues for innovation, new user experiences and increased convenience. In
some ways, however, we are rolling back the clock.
Allow me to clarify: If we accept the premise that native mobile applications
deliver the best functionality on disparate mobile platforms, w... (more)
The market for APIs has experienced explosive growth in recent years, yet one
of the major issues that providers still face is the protection and hardening
of the APIs that they expose to users. In particular, when you are exposing
APIs from a cloud based platform, this becomes very difficult to achieve
given the various cloud provider constraints. In order to achieve this you
would need a solution that can provide the hardening capabilities out of the
box, but that still permits for customization of the granular settings to
meet the solution need. Intel has such a solution and i... (more)
As an Enterprise Architect for Intel IT, I worked with IT Engineering and our
Software and Services group on the elastic scaling of the APIs that power the
Intel AppUp® center. Our goal was to scale our APIs to at least 10x our
baseline capacity (measured in transactions per second) by moving them to our
private cloud, and ultimately to be able to connect to a public cloud
provider for additional availability and scalability. Here’s a quick set of
practices we used to achieve our goal:
Virtualize everything. This may seem obvious and is probably a no-op for
new APIs, but in our... (more)
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michael warne
Brendan Harding
