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Prisma ORM Tool Suite Is Ready For Production in Node.js and TypeScript Apps
Nikolas Burk, developer relations at Prisma — the database ORM — recently announced that all Prisma tools (Prisma Client, Prisma Studio, Prisma Migrate) are ready for production usage. Prisma Migrate graduated from preview this year and is now generally available.
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GitHub Changes Token Format to Improve Identifiability, Secret Scanning, and Entropy
GitHub has recently moved to a new format for all of its tokens, including personal access, OAuth access, user-to-server and server-to-server, and refresh tokens. As GitHub engineer Heather Harvey explains, the new format aims to make tokens more easily identifiable, including when scanning repos for secrets, and to increase their entropy.
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The Linux Foundation Announces Hosting of AsyncAPI
The Linux Foundation announced today that it would host the AsyncAPI Initiative. It will provide a forum where individuals and organizations can advance AsyncAPI and nurture collaboration in a neutral platform that can support the growth that AsyncAPI is experiencing.
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Google Cloud Releases Its Healthcare Consent Management API to General Availability
Google Cloud recently announced it would release its Healthcare Consent Management API to general availability to provide healthcare application developers and clinical researchers a simple way to manage individuals' consent over health data use. The Healthcare Consent Management API is part of the Cloud Healthcare API offering on the Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
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Microsoft Releases Project Reunion 0.5 Preview
Earlier this week, Microsoft released Project Reunion 0.5 Preview, a set of developer components and tools that unifies access to existing Win32 and UWP APIs under a single API layer, decoupled from the operating system. The new release also includes the first stable release of WinUI 3, the newest version of the native UI platform for Windows 10.
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Netflix Embraces GraphQL Microservices for Rapid Application Development
Netflix engineering recently published a blog post detailing how Netflix embraced GraphQL microservices for rapid application development. In this post, Dane Avilla, a senior software engineer at Netflix, describes their key learnings in the process and how GraphQL lends itself well for proof-of-concept development.
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Google Cloud Announces a New Major Release of Its Management API Platform: Apigee X
Google Cloud recently announced a major new release of its API Management Platform Apigee. The release marks the tenth birthday of the service and is named Apigee X.
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Organizing Information about APIs with Google Registry API
Google Registry API aims to allow developers to organize information about APIs by uploading and sharing machine-readable descriptions of the APIs they use in development.
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AsyncAPI and Postman Partner to Bring New Tooling to Asynchronous APIs
AsyncAPI and Postman announced a partnership to support the AsyncAPI specification on the Postman platform. In their respective announcements, they detail how this partnership allows to boost the development of Asynchronous APIs. This will be done by building better tools to help engineers create and maintain Asynchronous APIs while using their favorite programming languages and frameworks.
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Hasura Remote Joins Implements GraphQL Data Federation
Hasura Remote Joins allows developers to use a single data graph to query several underlying data sources. Doing so does not force developers to modify data sources. Developers instead configure the relationships between the federated data models. The unified GraphQL API, combined with Hasura’s handling of authorization and caching, may provide more consistent and secure data access at scale.
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Microsoft Launches a New Communication Platform with Azure Communication Services
During its annual Ignite Conference, Microsoft announced Azure Communication Services (ACS), a fully-managed communication platform. The offering is currently in public preview.
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AWS Launches New Contact Flow APIs for Amazon Connect
Amazon Connect is an omnichannel contact service for enterprises to set up and manage a contact center. It is based on the same technology used by 70,000 Amazon customer service associates around the world to power customer conversations.
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Public Beta of Google Cloud API Gateway Now Available
At the recent Google's Cloud Next virtual conference, Google announced the public beta of API Gateway, a fully-managed Google Cloud service to create and monitor APIs for serverless workloads.
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Smart APIs Require Reactive Business Processes and Technology - Bernd Ruecker at QCon London
Implementing smart APIs, with circuit breakers, async communication, and reactive services, requires changes to business processes, not just buzzword technology. At QCon London, Bernd Ruecker talked about the challenges and tradeoffs to consider when moving beyond simple, request/reply APIs.
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Google Cloud Healthcare API Now Generally Available
In a recent blog post, Google announced the general availability of its Cloud Healthcare API. This service facilitates the exchange of healthcare data between solutions built on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and applications.