Blog Listing: API Gateway

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 - its APIs. The data that APIs carry is extremely valuable, and APIs have become the “connective tissue” between companies. They power multiple user experiences, sometimes called “omnichannel endpoints.” Think of how many ways you can order a...

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.

UPDATE: If you weren't able to attend this live webinar, you can still view a complete recording of the webinar here. Akamai API Gateway is now available, and we’d like to invite you to an info-packed webinar to give you the full scoop. In short, API Gateway uses the Akamai Intelligent Platform to deliver API functionality at the edge, which...

Akamai’s JSON Web Tokens (JWT) validation capability uses RSA-256 (see the RSA cryptography specifications here) to validate the digital signature of a token. We elected to use the RSA algorithm over HMAC because we did not feel that passing secrets around was very secure. However, we recognize that many tutorials and examples of JWT implementations use HMAC shared secrets for...

With the explosive growth of APIs enabling more innovation and powering more clients, it has become more critical than ever to optimize API delivery and management in every way you can. Akamai has historically been a recognized leader in streamlining the delivery of API traffic via a range of platform features and capabilities such as: Caching API responses for offload...

APIs are a key catalyst in digital transformation, empowering companies to create new and innovative business models. At the same time, APIs can increase threat vulnerability and attack surface. A lack of appropriate API protection can expose you to downtime and malicious attacks, including unintended misuse by legitimate users. These malicious attacks and misuse scenarios absolutely must be controlled as...

When it comes to API caching, we've found that many developers want to get a deeper understanding of how it works and the benefits it provides. We’ve also observed that adoption of API caching has been limited by a lack of tools to define and manage caching rules for each API (historically, it’s been impractical to establish caching rules across...