Microservices offer significant advantages compared to monoliths. You can scale the development more easily and have precise control over scaling infrastructure. Additionally, the ability to make many minor updates and incremental rollouts significantly reduces the time to market. Despite these benefits, microservices architecture presents a problem — the inability to access its services externally. Fortunately, an API gateway can resolve this issue.

Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the building blocks of modern-day applications. This software-to-software interface enables seamless collaboration and communication between applications and consumers. APIs power SaaS and cloud apps, mobile apps, micro-services, serverless functions, IoTs and even no-code frameworks.

Today, an important measure for success in the tech sector is time to market. The speed at which you can launch your product and any new features can make a huge difference in meeting growing customer expectations, breaking new ground in an existing market, and standing out against your competitors.

Over the past two decades we have seen security get more and more granular, going deeper into the stack generation after generation, from hardware, to network, server, container and now more and more to code. The next frontier of this evolution is data, especially sensitive data. Sensitive data is what organizations don’t want to see leaked or breached. This includes PHI, PII, PD, financial data.

If the eyes are the window to the soul, then the Application Programming Interface (API) is the window to the software. After all, an API is a way for products to communicate with each other through a documented interface, just as the eye is a human interface, communicating with the outside world (but it’s not as well-documented as to meanings).

Now is the time to rethink how you manage data security. We’ve discussed the potential for breaches, financial ramifications, and loss of business in the past. These get your attention, but we’re well beyond that. No company is immune to these risks anymore. It’s the “how” that trips people up. How do you account for every line of code? How do you keep tabs on third parties? How do you ensure security teams aren’t in the way of developers?

Back in 2018, GitHub celebrated 100 million open source repositories, and it has only been growing since then. How can you make sure your sensitive credentials and authentication tokens aren’t exposed to access by the public? Read this blogpost to learn how to save your API keys and other important data from being disclosed.

Open source got more open source-y. Kubescape API is now documented on Swagger, the OpenAPI standard. That’s it in a nutshell. Scroll down to read more about it. We’re excited to share that we made another important step as an open-source company. We have documented the APIs of our newly open-sourced services using Swagger, the OpenAPI standard. This will help you integrate, interact and develop for the Kubescape platform.

I’ve heard the title of this article uttered in exasperation by more than a few CISOs. That can’t be the case though, right? Developers are some of the most paranoid cautious, security-conscious people I know. Compared to your average person, developers are far more skeptical when it comes to their personal data. Even as a CEO, those instincts from my time as a full-time dev persist.

Learn how the gRPC test suite and gRPC wizard enable Defensics customers to create their own test sequences from protocol buffer definitions.