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Go, or "golang," is taking the API world by storm. We discuss the basic mechanics of this developer favorite language, and produce a rudimentary API to show how easy it is to get running.| Nordic APIs
Go, or "golang," is taking the API world by storm. We discuss the basic mechanics of this developer favorite language, and produce a rudimentary API to show how easy it is to get running.| Nordic APIs
We take another, more critical look at Go, and identify some use cases when Go may not be the best language choice for aspiring microservices developers.| Nordic APIs
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) all utilize APIs in the cloud computing stack. We’ll discuss the three layers of the cloud computing space, and view some cloud-based APIs, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each particular architecture choice.| Nordic APIs
We compare 3 ways to develop microservices: Lean Strategy, Verbose Development, and Two-Speed IT, discovering that how you build is just as important as what you build.| Nordic APIs
Mobile Backend as a Service, BaaS, or MBaaS. No matter what you call the API backend, it is key to helping API first companies deliver their mobile products in time and budget.| Nordic APIs
Gustaf Kotte from Jayway discusses how Hypermedia APIs delivering HTML can be used to streamline mobile development. A hypermedia HTML API backbone can bring accessibility across platforms, cut development time, and more.| Nordic APIs
We put simplicity and complexity in the ring, applying philosophies from system design theorists to the realm of APIs. Embrace complexity, but reroute confusion to the provider side. We attack many sides of API complexity from microservices, OAuth, to UX to find the perfect balance.| Nordic APIs
Backend API architecture can be segmented into data access, SaaS, vendor dependent, and self-contained. We outline 4 predominant architectures and advise on what to consider when designing your API's architecture| Nordic APIs
AI agents are increasingly autonomous in the way they interact with APIs and the systems those APIs represent. But unlike human developers, who can intuit solutions pretty readily, agents aren’t quite up to the task of reading docs, joining Slack channels, or pinging support when something breaks. They rely entirely on metadata, structure, and observed ...| Nordic APIs
Agentic AI has been the talk of the tech world in 2025. A quick query on Google Trends shows a 6100% uptick in Google searches for agentic AI in the last 12 months. Emergen Research anticipates that the Agentic AI market could be worth as much as $48.2 billion by 2030, with a compound annual ...| Nordic APIs
For the past six years, Postman has released their annual State of the API report. Surveying thousands of developers and professionals, it reflects changes in the industry and has become the de facto gospel for anyone looking for insight into what’s going on in the world of APIs. Looking at previous editions of the report ...| Nordic APIs
Translating physical reality into digital data that’s understandable and consumable by machines is one of the most persistent roadblocks in digital transformation. You can have all the automation, data processing, and filtering in the world, and it won’t make a difference if you’re still performing manual data entry. Computer vision is an essential part of ...| Nordic APIs
Healthcare systems worldwide are navigating a complex landscape, challenged by rising patient expectations, soaring operational costs, shortages of medical staff, strict compliance requirements, and the need to manage vast amounts of sensitive data. In this environment, digital transformation is essential to stop accepting what’s broken and start building what works. A pivotal standard driving transformation ...| Nordic APIs
Model Context Protocol (MCP) has been the talk of the tech world in 2025, promising to unlock the next level of AI’s usefulness. It’s the next stage in autonomous AI, allowing systems to make changes directly to the real world. Autonomy is just one reason that MCP promises to be such a game-changer, though. It ...| Nordic APIs
Real-world constraints often impact how we build digital services. This is especially true for enterprise APIs in regulated industries that transmit sensitive data across jurisdictions. Constraints around how data is managed can easily slow progress — but it doesn’t have to be that way. At Platform Summit 2025, Yinka Omole, a lead software engineer at ...| Nordic APIs
“So it happened, Scott. An MCP server I use in one of my workflows shipped a breaking API change, and my entire workflow broke.” With this single line, Scott Feinberg illuminates a core problem that the excitement around Model Context Protocol (MCP) has fundamentally ignored: API versioning. APIs change all the time — that’s what ...| Nordic APIs
APIs have a reputation for being the weakest link in an enterprise’s cybersecurity. This can become a self-fulfilling prophecy, as APIs’ supposed vulnerabilities make them a popular target for potential attackers and cybercriminals. This can cause all manner of security issues, as APIs can be made to divulge a wealth of sensitive information using valid ...| Nordic APIs
API sprawl is the new shadow IT. Learn the risks, causes, and strategies to control sprawl and protect your organization's APIs.| Nordic APIs
Here are some ways to design APIs and their support materials to be accurately consumed by large language models (LLMs).| Nordic APIs
How can API providers start to secure agentic access effectively? Here are a number of tactics to protect machine-driven API consumption.| Nordic APIs
This article looks at 3 different architectures to see how improved token design can boost performance and limit database lookups. Tokens can help structure complex API architectures.| Nordic APIs
In 2007 Kevin Kelly gave a TED talk in which he forecasted how the World Wide Web would look 5000 days into the future, prophesizing the emergence of the IoT and AI. He envisioned a more connected planet where all manufactured goods tap into a single, global, intelligent network. At the time, the Internet of ...| Nordic APIs
How to remotely share access to IoT devices using OAuth and OpenId Connect. We offer workflows for user-user delegation, using a smart bike lock IoT device as an example case.| Nordic APIs
Explore the shift from proprietary systems to open standards in the world wide web. Understand the importance of open standards in fostering innovation and collaboration.| Nordic APIs
Find out how healthcare APIs are revolutionizing medical record management. Learn how APIs can enhance accessibility and streamline healthcare processes.| Nordic APIs
This Spotify case study is an example of how to architect a scalable backend using Private APIs to efficiently receive multiple forms of payment from users.| Nordic APIs
What are the best practices for the microservices architecture? Where does it miss? Where could it make your app more scalable?| Nordic APIs
Hidden yet ubiquitous throughout the digital frontier, APIs are explosively disruptive- redefining digital business, altering expectations, and changing how we interact with the world.| Nordic APIs
Security is a pressing issue in the API world. This article offers actionable insights into using technologies to increase API security.| Nordic APIs
We dig into the development phase of an API lifecycle: implementation options, API Management and why it matters, API Usability, what languages, protocols, and methods to consider, as well as immediate steps to take after your API is deployed.| Nordic APIs
The freemium model is common for SaaS & APIs, but how to implement it correctly? See the benchmarks as we compare Freemium API monetization methods across the API space.| Nordic APIs
We explain what an API gateway is, and why it has become a popular way of throttling usage for devices interacting with microservices.| Nordic APIs
What's an API? APIs are like a lingua franca of the web. APIs connect devices and software and help avoid reinventing the wheel for common functions.| Nordic APIs
Some steps any API developer can walk through to right-size their microservice, considering specific business logic to drive the right-sizing processes.| Nordic APIs
As developers add more and more APIs to their stack, how can they keep track of these dependencies? In this article, J Simpson covers some strategies for API-centric dependency management.| Nordic APIs
We idenfity the top nine most common API threats out there, and and the ways to prevent them. Learn how to avoid pagination attacks, insecure API key generation, DDoS attacks using API key pools, and many other vulnerabilities unique to APIs.| Nordic APIs
We look at a few of 2021's underrated — yet powerful — APIs. These new services are bringing programmability to areas like podcasting, to social media management, data scraping, pricing, realty, and more.| Nordic APIs
We review some valuable digital marketing APIs that you can use to create your own analytics engines, messaging platforms, and research tools.| Nordic APIs
We review some of the best APIs to help automate online advertising campaigns. Tech-savvy advertisers can use these APIs to automate campaigns| Nordic APIs
It's a common question: “why can’t I send JWTs without OAuth?” JWT is a powerful encoding format, but requires OAuth to be a complete solution. Used alone, your API is not secure.| Nordic APIs
Daniel is a Technical Director of Professional Services at Curity. He helps companies of all sizes design standards-based solutions to manage identities, secure APIs, and comply with regulations.| Nordic APIs
We research the best web APIs for incorporating fingerprint recognition into your applications. What does the future of biometric analysis hold?| Nordic APIs
OpenAPI Specification 3.1.0 introduces full JSON schema compatibility, a new top-level element to describe out-of-band webhhooks, and other elements. Here's a roundup of the major changes:| Nordic APIs
What is a REST API, and how does it work? Here is a solid intro to REST for newcomers to the world of web API design.| Nordic APIs
HATEOAS stands for hypermedia as the engine of application state. It's a fundamental principle for REST-compliant, stateless web APIs.| Nordic APIs
Standard Webhooks is an initiative to have more industry-standard guidelines for webhooks. Here, we review it and showcase examples.| Nordic APIs
A list of eight documentation generators for AsyncAPI definitions. These packages and Github Actions will automatically create beautiful docs for your AsyncAPI file.| Nordic APIs
How is an API different than an SDK? What does an SDK have that an API doesn't? Learn how to provide the best tools for your developer users.| Nordic APIs
Here we look at 8 developer experience anti-patterns to avoid to help create more usable APIs and Software-as-a-Service.| Nordic APIs
You don’t really need a bulky monitoring suite to log API errors. Here's how to set up an API logging mechanism using open-source libraries.| Nordic APIs
We see how Square automatically generates and updates SDKs for a variety of languages, using Swagger Codegen, TravisCI, and other homebrewed techniques.| Nordic APIs
We offer some best practices for building a good SDK (Software Developer Kit) for web API programs. Follow these general tips to form a robust API ecosystem that developers can easily integrate into.| Nordic APIs
We explore 5 strong reasons to adopt SDKs and code samples are first-class components of your developer-facing initiatives.| Nordic APIs
Elisabeth Falck of If P&C shares how IAM and a product mindset drive API success, with insights ahead of Platform Summit 2025.| Nordic APIs
Our physical and digital worlds are colliding. A new web epoch approaches — an era called the Internet of Things (IoT). In this realm, home devices, city sensors, smart cars, wearables, and every other device we use is connected to the Internet.| Nordic APIs
API metrics analysis can be used to amplify success within the API space. This piece covers API metrics types, demonstrate applications, and uses two real-life examples of success and failure arising from differing metric analysis methodologies.| Nordic APIs
Think you know your target audience? As diversity increases in the API economy, we reconsider API user segmentation, defining specific traits that make up today’s unique API consumer.| Nordic APIs
To kick off a series of blog posts on the API lifecycle, we’ll define what we mean by this term and explore it from a high level. In subsequent posts we’ll dig into the details, so be on the lookout for those!| Nordic APIs
This article aims to bolster your defenses by defining the four foundations of API security: Authentication, Authorization, Federation, and Delegation.| Nordic APIs
We define the three general approaches to API licensing and availability, comparing Public, Partner, and Private APIs to Leather, Chain, and Plate armor. Expose only what needs to be exposed.| Nordic APIs
In this article we offer both practical tips on technical implementation, and more philosophical considerations on complexity when designing an API.| Nordic APIs
Ping Identity’s Paul Madsen explains how OpenID Connect can be used for Native SSO, Mobile Identity Management & secure Internet of Things applications| Nordic APIs
The API Security Maturity Model is a new model to gauge how mature your API security system is. Spoiler alert: if you're not using Claims, you might not make it to the top.| Nordic APIs
We review the 3 main methods used for security and authentication control in the realm of APIs - HTTP Basic Authentication, API Keys, and OAuth| Nordic APIs
What exactly is Developer Experience (DX)? Software providers can establish quality DX by following these simple API-as-a-product mantras.| Nordic APIs
Which qualities should an API to provide a good developer experience, and which APIs can be used as an example a good DX?| Nordic APIs
Learn how to design content negotiation into REST APIs, and why it's important to remove media type extensions in order to develop long-lasting RESTful APIs| Nordic APIs
Can an API gateway address the concerns of modern API security? We'll see how a gateway layer adds security mechanism mediation, & more flexibility to APIs.| Nordic APIs
Axway's Rogier van Boxtel shares how enterprises approach AI, MCP, and data integration governance at the 2025 Platform Summit.| Nordic APIs
Mobile apps are more exposed than web apps. Learn layered strategies to secure secrets, block MitM attacks, and stop bot farms.| Nordic APIs
We review five case studies of impressive API-first success stories at Stripe, Netflix, Amazon, Twilio, and Checkr.| Nordic APIs
In the world of web APIs, the need for governance and shared standards increases as a business seriously considers its data value and platform strategy.| Nordic APIs
Not all APIs have documentation that's accessible and easy to follow. Here are some tips from the trenches of navigating API documentation.| Nordic APIs
A look at how six large organizations are testing out API governance initiatives to develop more standard, compliant, and secure APIs.| Nordic APIs
Helpful API error messages go beyond simple error codes. Here are examples of excellent API error responses from five popular APIs.| Nordic APIs
Open banking has been evolving for over 5 years now. So, what does the open banking landscape look like? Here are the realities of bank API adoption.| Nordic APIs
We introduce open banking and cover state-of-the-art bank-grade security standards to ensure banking APIs meet the latest regulations and compliances.| Nordic APIs
Most technologists understand the benefits of open banking, however, end users are struggling to see the point. How can we evangelize to these consumers?| Nordic APIs
Inspired by Flavia Sequeira's presentation from the Nordic APIs Platform Summit 2017, we describe what it takes to become an API thinker in a large company.| Nordic APIs
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) will require open bank APIs, withholding PSD2 themes of open banking in a post-Brexit European economy.| Nordic APIs
Tips and best practices for starting your own successful developer-centric partner program. Successful partner programs intimately understand their audience and shared benefits.| Nordic APIs
With the rise of the Open Banking Standard, banks must supply secure APIs to promote consumer control and lower barriers of entry. More than ever, we must stress the importance of using a definition to drive a single source of truth for the platform.| Nordic APIs
Standardized banking APIs are the new trend for the FinTech industry, opening data to enable in-app marketplaces and new financial themed user experiences.| Nordic APIs
Nordic APIs recently consulted CIBC bank on their microservices framework. We interview Eyal Sivan on their microservices strategy and how the project went.| Nordic APIs
Agentic traffic is rising. Here's why AI gateways are key to securing outbound API calls made by autonomous agents.| Nordic APIs
A recent study found the majority of APIs drift away from their documentation. 75% of production APIs don't match their API specifications.| Nordic APIs
Versioning doesn't have to mean broken clients and unhappy users. Here are ways to build a great developer experience around API versioning.| Nordic APIs
Travel platforms have already started to adopt travel and booking APIs, allowing functionalities like flights, hotel, and car bookings under the same user experience.| Nordic APIs
Explore smart caching strategies for AI agents, including semantic, response, embedding, and workflow-level caching.| Nordic APIs
Specialized in web technologies such as HTTP, architectural principles like REST, Hypermedia as well as more general software engineer best practices.| Nordic APIs
GraphQL has made an excellent entree on the API scene. It is reintroducing the original concepts of RPC-style architecture with a revolutionary API consumer-oriented approach. It brought a new option to the stalled waters of RESTful APIs. But more importantly, GraphQL brought back the principal question: What is the right API architectural style for my ...| Nordic APIs
What does it mean to design REST APIs? Asbjørn Ulsberg of Payex revisits his presentation from a past Platform Summit, reiterating his ideas on what it means to truly follow REST design.| Nordic APIs
With the rise of IoT and microservices, RPC is making a comeback. We look at Google's RPC framework, gRPC, and how it can be used in lightweight web design.| Nordic APIs
Asbjorn describes a new approach to API versioning, outlining five aspects of smart API change management. Learn to adopt an API change strategy that avoids breaking change yet maintaining efficient development techniques.| Nordic APIs
Today, we'll describe the intricacies of GDPR, then dive into **5 steps to GDPR compliance** that any organization – regardless of size, purpose, or history – can incorporate into their data protection scheme.| Nordic APIs
Audrey is full-stack developer at Saagie, specialised in APIs and Lucene based search engines. Heavily involved in the French wide Java Community, she’s part of Devoxx4Kids, a not-for-profit global initiative to get children coding and Devoxx France.| Nordic APIs
We describe how a Backend for Frontend (BFF) design acts as a translative layer to cater to various user experiences for APIs and microservices.| Nordic APIs
Learn the definition of an API Platform, who it's relevant too, and the benefits of becoming one in this Nordic API blog post.| Nordic APIs
Openness leads to increased adoption. Not all uses are preferred, however. What is the right balance between openness and control? Read on to learn more.| Nordic APIs
What makes a smart city? We discover how APIs are the driving force behind smart cities - connecting IoT devices and sparking city-to-city collaboration.| Nordic APIs
