Bob Reselman
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How Ably.io Uses gRPC APIs to Streamline Its Messaging Service
In this article we'll look at how the Messaging as a Service platform Ably.io uses gRPC to optimize its service's streaming capabilities. We'll provide a brief overview of the Ably.io tech stack and then we'll look at how gRPC is used to optimize communication in the service's control plane. → Read More
How Gitlab puts gRPC in the Real World
In this series we've presented the basics of what the gRPC specification is and how it works. In this installment, we will take a real-world look at how the Source Control Management Service GitLab adopted gRPC when it refactored its server-side architecture into the Gitaly project. → Read More
New Features in GraphQL Editor 3.0 Enrich the API Development Experience
GraphQL Editor announced today the release of Version 3.0 of its flagship development tool. The new release of GraphQL Editor 3.0 offers a variety of new features that intended to improve the productivity of developers creating APIs according to the GraphQL specification. → Read More
gRPC in the Real World: The Kubernetes Container Runtime Interface
In this article we're going to look at how gRPC is used by Kubernetes in its Container Runtime Interface (CRI) technology. Bit first, why aren't we seeing that much gRPC on the front-end? It's a question that's been asked many times now and it is one that is well worth answering. → Read More
How Kubernetes Exemplifies A Truly API Driven Application
It is entirely possible to make it so that an API layer serves as the master control center for all activity taking place inside and outside a computing domain. In other words, an API layer can be the one ring that rules them all, which is the approach seen in a Kubernetes installation. → Read More
How to Make Use of gRPC Libraries and Frameworks
While gRPC brings a lot of power to enterprise level distributed computing, it's not an easy technology to implement. Fortunately there are projects that provide the necessary framework to do this. This article focuses on a detailed examination of the Node.js implementation of gRPC. → Read More
Understanding the Essentials of gRPC
In this article, we're going to take a detailed look at gRPC. We're going to cover the essentials of gRPC architecture in terms of specification and implementation. Then, we're going to take a detailed look at the underlying concepts and practices required to create a gRPC API. → Read More
How to Auto-Generate gRPC Code Using protoc
The objective of this article is to explain how to get protoc, a tool that does a lot of the mundane work that goes with creating code for a gRPC API, up and running to auto-generate gRPC code in a variety of programming languages. We'll cover auto-generating code in JavaScript, C#, and GoLang. → Read More
What is a gRPC API and How Does it Work?
gRPC is an API framework that allows a program in one location on the internet to pass data to a distinct function in another program at another location on the internet. In this article, we're going to discuss how gRPC emerged on the landscape of distributed computing and explain the technology. → Read More
Slash GraphQL Brings Managed Backend and No Code Services to the GraphQL Ecosystem
DGraph, a San Francisco based startup focused on providing a full-powered native GraphQL backend service that operates at a global scale, announced the release of Slash GraphQL. The Slash DGraph platform provides a GraphQL data storage service that sits on top of DGraph’s graph database. → Read More
Slash DGraph Brings Managed Backend and No Code Services to the GraphQL Ecosystem
DGraph, a San Francisco based startup focused on providing a full-powered native GraphQL backend service that operates at a global scale, announced the release of Slash GraphQL. The Slash DGraph platform provides a GraphQL data storage service that sits on top of DGraph’s graph database. → Read More
Apollo GraphQL Announces the Release of Apollo Client 3.0
San Francisco based Apollo GraphQL announced today the release of the company’s next-generation tool for GraphQL programming, Apollo Client 3.0. ProgrammableWeb conducted an interview with the company’s CTO Matt DeBergalis where we discussed this new offering. → Read More
How to Build a Streaming API Using gRPC
gRPC is an alternative architectural pattern to REST and GraphQL for providing and consuming APIs. It's becoming a popular way among many companies to create APIs intended to run at web-scale compared to the other architectures that often rely on data formatting standards such as JSON or XML. → Read More
How to Build a Streaming API Using GraphQL Subscriptions
GraphQL Subscriptions are a game-changer in the way developers interact with an API. They complement GraphQL's default non-subscription behavior in a way that both synchronous HTTP request/response communication and asynchronous event-driven interactions are available from a single API experience. → Read More
TypeScript is Now Airbnb's Official Language for Web Development
Brie Bunge, Front-End Engineer at Airbnb told the audience that Airbnb has adopted TypeScript as its standard language for Web development. TypeScript provides a level of reliability and programming efficiency which is difficult to achieve when programming only with JavaScript. → Read More
Apollo GraphQL CEO Predicts the Rise of Omni Channel API Development
The CEO of Apollo GraphQL predicted the rise of Omni Channel API development in an interview with ProgrammableWeb during the GraphQL Summit 2019 in San Francisco CA. Schmidt pointed out that the trend in application development is to move toward interaction styles that are natural to the end-user. → Read More
Hasura Brings Declarative Programming to GraphQL API Development
During Day 1 of GraphQL Summit, Tanmai Gopal, CEO, and co-founder of Hasura introduced his company’s declarative approach to creating GraphQL APIs during an exclusive interview with ProgammableWeb. Hasura is an open-source solution that provides complete support for the GraphQL specification. → Read More
Apollo Client 3.0 Enhances Cache Management for GraphQL APIs
At the GraphQL Summit, being held in San Francisco, Matt DeBergalis, Co-Founder, CTO at Apollo announced the release of the Apollo Client 3.0. Apollo Client is a development tool that reduces the labor involved in creating client-side GUI applications that interact with server-side GraphL APIs. → Read More
Review: GraphQL Editor Shows Promise as IDE for GraphQL API Development
GraphQL makes using an API a more flexible undertaking, but it can come with the cost of increased complexity. This is where the benefit of third party GraphQL tools comes into play. GraphQL Editor uses the notion of visual programming to allow developers to create full-fledged APIs in GraphQL. → Read More
Review: Postman's Newly Introduced GraphQL Support
With the most recent release of its namesake product, Postman is now capable of working with GraphQL-based APIs. ProgrammableWeb decided to take a closer look by reviewing the new feature. Postman is a utility that allows developers to execute HTTP requests against a given URL. → Read More