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Low-Code API Builder Postman Flows Moves into General Availability
Postman moved Postman Flows, their low-code API building tool, into general availability. Postman Flows provides a collaborative, graphical interface for building API-driven applications and workflows. It integrates with the Postman API Network to access publicly available APIs.
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Microsoft Previews Azure API Management Workspaces
Microsoft recently added a new feature to Azure API Management with Workspaces, designed to enable developers to manage multiple API services from a single location, allowing them to easily view and modify all of their API services in one place.
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OpenAI Unleashes ChatGPT and Whisper APIs for Next-Gen Language Capabilities
OpenAI has announced that it’s now letting third-party developers integrate ChatGPT and Whisper into their apps and services via API, offering access to AI-powered language and speech-to-text capabilities. As compared to using the company's current language approach, these APIs will make it easier for businesses to integrate ChatGPT and Whisper into their platforms.
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Ably Terraform Provider Aims to Power Realtime Architectures Using Infrastructure as Code
Developed by Ably in partnership with HashiCorp, the Ably Terraform Provider enables using Terraform, a popular open-source infrastructure as code (IaC) tool, to provision and manage Ably solutions programmatically.
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Google Address Validation API Is Generally Available to Improve Address Accuracy
Google recently announced the general availability of the Address Validation API. The new feature of the Google Maps Platform validates an address, standardizes it for mailing, and determines the best-known geocode location for it.
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Six Essential Tracks at QCon London, March 27-29, 2023: Architecture, FinTech, ML, and More!
QCon London international software conference returns this March 27-29 with its 17th edition. Technical leaders who are driving innovation and change in software will share the latest trends and techniques from their real-world projects to help you solve common challenges. Learn about emerging trends in 2023, how to adopt them, how to avoid pitfalls, and how to embrace the best practices.
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Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoints Integration Now in Public Preview
Microsoft recently announced the public preview of Azure SQL Database External REST Endpoint Integration – an ability to call a REST endpoint natively from Azure SQL Database.
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Microsoft Previews Computer Vision Image Analysis API 4.0
Recently Microsoft announced the public preview of a new version of the Computer Vision Image Analysis API, making all visual image features ranging from Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to object detection available through a single endpoint.
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AWS Amplify for Swift Reaches 2.0, Brings Async/Await and macOS Support
Previously known as AWS Amplify iOS, AWS Amplify for Swift now offers a rewritten API to support Swift async/await and make concurrency code more idiomatic. Additionally, the new release introduces beta support on macOS for a number of AWS features, including Auth, Storage, Geo, and others.
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Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix: Tejas Shikhare at QCon San Francisco 2022
At QCon San Francisco 2022, Tejas Shikhare, senior software engineer at Netflix, presented Scaling GraphQL Adoption at Netflix. Shikhare has been working at Netflix’s federated GraphQL platform, distributed systems, and, more recently, developer tools and education. This talk is part of the editorial track Modern APIs: Building and Evolving.
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API Evolution without Versioning: Brandon Byars at QCon San Francisco 2022
Brandon Byars, North America head of technology at Thoughtworks, spoke at QCon San Francisco 2022. Through his journey of building and maintaining a public-facing API, Mountebank, Brandon shares his learnings and time-tested patterns on evolving APIs without breaking changes.
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Snap Way to Design Ads Ranking Service Using Deep Learning
Snap engineering has recently published a blog post on how they designed their ads ranking and targeting service using deep learning. Showing ads to the users is the mainstream of social network platform monetization. Snap ad ranking system is designed to target the right user at the right time. Snap is providing an excellent user experience while preserving user privacy and security.
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QCon Events 2022: Uncover Emerging Trends & Learn From Practitioners Driving Innovation in Software
QCon offers two international software development conference formats, in-person QCon San Francisco (Oct 24-28) and online QCon Plus (Nov 29-Dec 9). Level up on the skills most in demand in the industry by uncovering emerging software trends to solve your complex engineering challenges.
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Google AI Introduces TensorStore, a High-Performance Open-Source Library for Array Storage
Google has introduced TensorStore, an open-source C++ and Python framework intended to speed up the design for reading and writing large multidimensional arrays.
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Apache ShenYu: Java Responsive API Gateway Announced as Apache Top-Level Project
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced that Apache ShenYu, an asynchronous, high-performance, and responsive API Gateway for service proxy, protocol conversion, and API governance, has been promoted as a Top-Level Project. It is written in Java, but supports multiple languages such as Python, Go and .NET.
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