Blog Listing: API Gateway

Many dynamic API calls, such as payment transactions, are somewhat time-pressured and must complete within several seconds. But other API calls are even more critical and are what we call “ultradynamic.” These calls require extremely rapid refresh times (usually less than 100 milliseconds) to ensure that fast-changing data is updated quickly for an API client. For example, consider sports scores:...

Akamai recently announced GraphQL caching capability in Akamai API Gateway. This post illuminates some additional control you can gain over the way your cache key is computed. Akamai uses cache keys when caching an object on an Edge server. A cache key is a unique location in memory or disk where an object may be referenced. This object is returned...

GraphQL offers developers many advantages over a traditional RESTful API, which is a key part of its growing popularity. Among those advantages is the ability to make a targeted query against multiple resources with a single request, which can dramatically increase API performance by reducing the payload size sent to the API client. One deterrent to more widespread adoption of...

If you’d prefer not to write to Akamai's APIs to control Akamai API Gateway, you now have another option: our command-line interface (aka Akamai CLI). Specifically, the new Akamai API Gateway CLI package allows you to control 12 common API Gateway functions using a non-GUI interface — and without writing a line of code. This helps you script or automate...

An API is only useful if gets in front of its intended audience, and that includes both the initial launch of the API and—perhaps more importantly—its many subsequent improvement iterations. Deployment velocity becomes critical to the success of your API as you iterate; simply put, you’ve got to get the improved version in front of the audience as quickly as...

If you talk to enough API developers, you start hearing very similar stories about API pain points. It doesn’t matter what industry you work in, what the client is, or what language you write in - the misery cuts across all of it. This blog post reviews some common pain points with RESTful APIs, and how GraphQL helps address them....

Akamai has been serving content from the edge for 20 years. Today’s Internet is much more than HTML, images, CSS, and JavaScript; it's also APIs, APIs, APIs. The data that APIs carry is extremely valuable, and APIs have become the “connective tissue” between companies. As a result, organizations often need thousands of APIs, and each one is a potential point...

The latest release of Akamai API Gateway builds on the formidable core features we launched in version 1.0. One of the new features we think you’ll love is API Gateway’s ability to cache GraphQL responses. Here’s why this is key: many companies are moving to GraphQL for their APIs, but there is no native caching capability in GraphQL. With API...

Offloading the authentication and authorization functions of an API to an API Gateway can provide substantial improvements in scalability.

We recently conducted an Akamai Developer webinar where we demonstrated the functionality of the new Akamai API Gateway. During that session, we polled participants with this question: “Are you using an API definition language, and if so, which one?” Of the respondents, 41% said they were NOT using a definition language while 58% said they were using Swagger 2.0.