API Collections – a curation of Mashape’s most popular APIs
The Mashape API Marketplace boasts more than 10,000 APIs from over 140,000 API developers around the world. To help you discover interesting APIs in various topics, we’re happy to introduce API...
View ArticleKong – The King of API Management is Taking Over
Mashape is excited to introduce Kong, the API industry’s first open source platform for managing microservices and APIs. Using NGINX as its proxy server, Kong enables developers to create plugins for...
View ArticleKong 0.2.1 released
The latest update of Kong (0.2.1) includes several bug fixes since the initial launch two weeks ago. Improvements Support for local DNS resolutions Support for Debian 8 and Ubuntu 15.04 Support for...
View ArticleMashape + Paw = Answer to your API testing needs
Today, Mac developers have a new way to utilize the rich collection of APIs in the Mashape API Marketplace through our new integration with Paw, a beautifully designed Mac app that makes interaction...
View ArticleKong’s first month of life
Last month Mashape launched Kong to provide the world with a free and open source API and Microservice management platform. We would like to share some general stats to the community since it’s a...
View ArticleKONG Architectural choices: the API layer for microservices
KONG, the king of open-source API management platforms, is in my (totally not biased) opinion an extremely cool tool. From startups to enterprises, companies have tons of APIs (growth of APIs within...
View ArticleKong 0.3.2 release
The latest update of Kong (0.3.2) ships with several new features, including: Improvements Support for SSL through an SSL Plugin. APIs can be resolved by an endpoint path. HTTP Log Plugin. Response...
View ArticleSlice API: Connecting your users with their purchases
The Slice API provides developers with item-level purchase history for their opted-in users, enabling enhanced and personalized experiences with online shopping data from more than 500,000 merchants....
View ArticleIntroducing Analytics – Visualize and Inspect API performances in real-time
We’re excited to bring real-time analytics to microservices and APIs with the release of Mashape Analytics: the first purpose-built, open analytics platform designed specifically for API-centric...
View ArticleSlice API: Inspiring Your Hacks with Some Exciting Use Cases
In our last post, we introduced the Slice API and shared with you a bit of the journey that inspired us to offer a public API for developers to retrieve purchase history from their users who have opted...
View Article12 weeks weather forecasts with Weather2020 API
Ah, weather apps. Often imitated, often duplicated. There are literally hundreds of weather apps out there pulling the same weather data and they’re all basically the same… right? What if you could...
View ArticleKong 0.4.0 release
The latest update of Kong (0.4.0) includes some new exciting features, including: Improvements: OAuth 2.0 Plugin Mashape Analytics Plugin IP Restriction Plugin, with whitelist and blacklist support...
View ArticleKong crosses 10,000 downloads
During the weekend Kong crossed 10,000 downloads. Today Kong is 89 days old and you can find all the open issues and our roadmap in the Gtihub repo. Thousands of instances started with Kong, the...
View ArticleKong 0.4.1 released
The latest update of Kong (0.4.1) ships with some patches, including: Fixes: Fixed issues with the Mashape Analytics plugin. Support for “Client Credentials” OAuth 2.0 flow. A bug-fix for a problem...
View ArticleScaling up an API proxy in OCaml
At Mashape, we’ve been building a new product, APIAnalytics, to let anyone easily track and monitor anything related to HTTP in their applications. To be successful, it needs to be extremely easy to...
View ArticleKong 0.4.2 released
The latest update of Kong (0.4.2) ships with some bugfixes and improvements, including: Fixes: Support for Cassandra authentication. Support for “Resource Owner Credentials Grant” OAuth 2.0 flow....
View ArticleSLICE API: Helping Developers Create Amazing User Experiences
During our last post, we discussed a few use cases for leveraging the technology of the Slice API to its full potential. In this installment, we will take you through how integration with our API has...
View ArticleCompare API requests in 1-click
Mashape Analytics, is the only biz intelligence platform focused on Analytics and Visualization of API traffic. It has over 100 features focused in solving API problems fast. One of those is called...
View ArticleInstaclustr provides managed Cassandra to Kong API Management
Mashape, the creator of Kong and open-source API management platform, is pleased to announce an integrated partnership with Instaclustr, which delivers hosted and managed Apache Cassandra...
View ArticleKong 0.5.0 released
The latest update of Kong (0.5.0) is the most exciting release, shipping with new features, bug-fixes and improvements, including: Updates: Response Rate-Limiting plugin, that rate-limits requests with...
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