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Nest.js 6 Improves GraphQL Integration and Improves Platform Flexibility

Nest.js recently announced the release of version 6 of their TypeScript framework. Nest.js 6 improves support for GraphQL and also decouples the platform-specific portions of their framework to support applications beyond their traditional Express and Node.js based architecture.

Dylan Schiemann
on Apr 22, 2019
Web Development

Ts.ED Provides TypeScript Framework Leveraging Express and Decorators

Ts.ED provides a server-side TypeScript framework on top of Node.js and Express. The framework provides classes and decorators to simplify common server-side patterns, and offers integration with many other projects including TypeORM, Swagger, GraphQL, AJV, Passport.js, and Socket.io, among others.

Dylan Schiemann
on Apr 18, 2019 1
Cloud

Google's New Cloud Security Services for Better Threat Detection and Protection in Enterprises

Google announced three new services for better threat detection and protection in enterprises: Web Risk API, Cloud Armor, and Cloud HSM. All these security services will offer Google Cloud Platform (GCP) customers advanced security functionalities.

Steef-Jan Wiggers
on Mar 22, 2019
DevOps

Gloo Gateway Released for Kubernetes Knative

Gloo, an Envoy-based API Gateway by Solo.io, is the first official alternative to Istio for the Kubernetes Knative service. InfoQ reached out to Solo Founder Idit Levine to learn more about Gloo and its integration with Knative.

K Jonas
on Mar 19, 2019
Java

Helidon V1 Brings API Stability and MicroProfile 1.2 Support

Oracle has released version 1.0 of Project Helidon, an open-source collection of Java libraries to build microservices, with greater API stability than beta versions and support for the MicroProfile 1.2 spec. Helidon comes in two programming models: Helidon SE and Helidon MP.

Uday Tatiraju
on Mar 12, 2019
Architecture & Design

New API Management Solution from NGINX Optimized for Internal and External APIs

The NGINX API Management Module announced at the NGINX Conference in October last year is now generally available. Liam Crilly, director of product management at NGINX, describes the new module together with NGINX Plus and NGINX Controller, as a next generation API management solution optimized for handling both external and internal APIs.

Jan Stenberg
on Jan 31, 2019
DevOps

Kong 1.0 GA Released with Service Mesh Support and Plugin Development Kit

Kong Inc., has released Kong 1.0., the latest generally available (GA) version of their flagship API gateway. Although typically deployed at the edge of a network for the handling of external “north-south” API traffic, Kong also be can deployed as a “service mesh” in front of any backend service.

Daniel Bryant
on Jan 03, 2019
Cloud

Microsoft Introduces New API Management Consumption Tier for Serverless Architectures

In a recent blog post, Microsoft announced a new Azure API Management Consumption tier. This tier allows for micro-based billing and aligns to serverless architecture principles including automated scaling, built-in high availability, per action billing and no infrastructure to provision or manage.

Kent Weare
on Dec 10, 2018
Architecture & Design

Apollo Launches GraphQL Platform and VS Code Extension

Apollo, the company behind GraphQL, just launched their flagship product, the Apollo GraphQL Platform, described as "a complete solution for companies aiming to do GraphQL the right way."

Thomas Betts
on Nov 09, 2018
Cloud

New Updates to Firebase: Enterprise-Grade Support, ML Kit Face Contours, Management API, and More

Firebase is a service available on the Google infrastructure, enabling developers to build apps for Android, iOS, and the web. Recently, Google updated Firebase with paid enterprise-grade support, ML Kit Face Contours, a Firebase Management API, Test Lab for iOS, Performance Monitoring improvements, and Firebase Predictions.

Steef-Jan Wiggers
on Nov 07, 2018
Cloud

Microsoft Announces the General Availability of the New Azure Media Services API (V3)

With Azure Media Services, customers can encode, protect, index, and deliver videos at scale. Recently, Microsoft announced several enhancements to this service in Azure, including the general availability of the new Azure Media Services v3 API, as well as updates to Azure Media Player.

Steef-Jan Wiggers
on Nov 02, 2018
Cloud

Google's Apigee API Platform Enhanced with API Monitoring and "Extensions" to Connect GCP Services

Google Cloud's full lifecycle API Management platform Apigee provides customers control over, and visibility into, the API's that connect applications and data across their enterprises and clouds. Recently, Google announced the general availability of various new Apigee capabilities such as Apigee API monitoring, Apigee extensions, and Apigee hosted targets.

Steef-Jan Wiggers
on Oct 20, 2018
DevOps

NGINX Interview: Enterprise Adoption of Software Load Balancing, API Gateways, and Service Meshes

InfoQ recently sat down with Rob Whiteley, Sidney Rabsatt, Liam Crilly from NGINX, and discussed their views on the future of networking and data center communication. NGINX aims to be a “trusted advisor” and provide an “easy on-ramp” for enterprises looking to leverage software load balancers, ingress gateways, and service meshes, as is appropriate to their current technology landscape and goals.

Daniel Bryant
on Sep 21, 2018
Architecture & Design

Strategies for Microservices Communication

When moving from a monolith to a microservices architecture, complexity implicitly hidden within the monolith becomes explicitly visible and the challenges for communication will grow exponentially, Michael Plöd explained in a presentation at GeeCON 2018, describing different strategies for communicating between microservices.

Jan Stenberg
on Aug 16, 2018
Architecture & Design

QLoo Creates GraphQL Interface for Existing Services

Solo.io recently released QLoo , an API translation layer to provide GraphQL endpoints for existing services and serverless functions. QLoo is intended to simplify the process of adding GraphQL on top of existing software.

Thomas Betts
on Jul 31, 2018