
Software Is Eating The World, And APIs Are The Fuel For That
Over the past handful of years I’ve commented on a seemingly disconnected bunch of areas: the rise of cloud computing, the forced re-design of how enterprises work, the focus on more project-specific teams, dispersed workers … the list goes on. In the last 12 months of so I’ve seen these formerly disconnected areas converge together […]
Alcatel Lucent’s Big API Bet
Last week Alcatel Lucent made an announcement which, at first blush, seems kind of boring. They’ve released a methodology for creating APIs, they’ve made the methodology available through Creative Commons as a front end for a new consulting practice that helps enterprises work through the processes involved in moving to

Preparing Developers For Tomorrow’s Cloudy World
As we started talking about extending the CloudU content beyond the introductory series of modules, one area that people asked us time and time again to give some thought to was the changes that developers would see in their working life because of the cloud. One only needs to take a look at the CloudU LinkedIn […]

Finding Relevance in a Commoditized World, APIs and Infrastructure
A few weeks ago I moderated a session at Defrag. As part of the session Sam Ramji from Apigee presented. The session got a little sideways due in part to some frayed nerves from a hectic travel schedule for a bunch of people and in part to a misunderstanding around a line of questioning. That […]

Commerce In The Networked World: Mashery leads The Way
Mashery (previous CloudAve coverage), the enterprise-grade API provider, today announced the availability of Distributed Commerce, an API platform that takes the commerce to the doorsteps of modern day networked users. In this era of smartphones, tablets and social networks, users expect vendors to bring commerce to where they are than going to an e-commerce website. […]

Apigee Asks: Is Your API PCI Compliant?
Apigee (previous CloudAve coverage), the API management company formerly known as Sonoa Systems, yesterday launched PCI-Compliant API management solution in the cloud. As we move into an increasingly platform based world where APIs are the key, the next important issue we, as an industry, have to tackle is security. Already companies like Apigee, Mashery, etc […]

Apigee Shows Momentum And Launches CDN Equivalent For APIs
Apigee (previous CloudAve coverage), the API infrastructure company formerly known as Sonoa Systems, today highlighted momentum in their business and announced a new service called API Delivery Network (API-DN), which can be simplistically defined as CDN equivalent for APIs. In January of this year, I pointed out to Apigee processing 16 Billion API calls per […]

Apigee Opens Up API Console To All
Apigee (see previous CloudAve coverage), formerly known as Sonoa Systems, last week announced that they are opening up their API console to all the providers. They initially started off with API console supporting Twitter and Facebook. Over a period, they started working with LinkedIn, Paypal, etc.. Last week, they finally announced that any provider offering […]

Importance Of API: The Apigee Example
Image via CrunchBase Apigee (see previous CloudAve coverage), formerly known as Sonoa Systems, today announced that there are 16 Billion API calls flowing through their technology every month. This is a clear indication of massive growth of APIs in this increasingly cloudy world. Stephen O’ Grady of Redmonk also highlights this large scale proliferation of […]

API, API, API, API, API, API
If you imagined a tech CEO or an evangelist or a pundit jumping up and down like Steve Ballmer and shouting “API, API, API, API, API…….”, it may come true faster than you ever expected. In this cloud based world where every service wants to be a platform (see my PaaS Is The Future of […]

Sonoa Rebrands As Apigee, New Premium Features Added
Sonoa Systems (See our previous coverage of Sonoa), a provider of enterprise API management solutions, today announced that they are rebranding as Apigee, which, so far, was a free API tools platform helping developers easily tap into the APIs of modern social networks and other web applications. The rebranding removes confusion on their offerings and […]

Apigee Adds Facebook Support To Their API Console
Image via CrunchBase Apigee is a cloud based service built on top of Sonoa technology for API gateway, offering testing, debugging, analytics and security for your API (See our past coverage of Apigee and Sonoa Systems here). It sits between your application and your API and offers the above mentioned services. What Apigee does to […]

Apigee And Heroku Partner To Make App Development A Child’s Play
Apigee , the free API tools platform from Sonoa Systems (See our previous coverage of Apigee here and here), today partnered with Heroku, the Ruby PaaS provider (See our previous coverage of Heroku here and here ), to offer an easy access to Twitter platform. Apigee has been providing API tools for developers with focus […]

Apigee Gains Traction And Adds New Security Features
Image via CrunchBase We live in an era where we consume computing through API and socialize through mashups. Our wide ranging computing needs from mobile apps to social networks to SaaS, brings API to the forefront of our computing senses. To cater to the needs of this API generation, Santa Clara based Sonoa Systems has […]