Thomas Jardinet

Refcard #303

API Integration Patterns

Refcard #308

Hybrid Integration Best Practices

Trend Report

API Management

Developers globally are reclaiming their voice and authority in shaping the software and tools they use regularly. Pivoting from more rigid mindsets around integration management, APIs are taking a needed turn toward development-centric workflows, automations, and evolving use cases. Practices like API-first development and democratization allow dev teams to impart a proactive, strategic approach to API implementation across the organization, specifically as it relates to to security, AI, and messaging infrastructures.AI continues to redefine technology and workplaces as we know it. Data integrations and API gateways hold the keys to effectively communicating the needs and actions across software systems. But with APIs comes heightened security risks. For API lifecycles to evolve and thrive, mounting questions and concerns about security must be addressed.In DZone's 2025 API Management Trend Report, readers will find our original research on key themes like the evolution of API lifecycles, global operational impacts, AI's growing presence, and security challenges and strategies. Software practitioners from the DZone Community also join us, sharing their expert insights on API standards and architectural styles, the intersection of API<>AI gateways, platform engineering's impact on API scalability and security, and more.

Trend Report

Modern API Management

When assessing prominent topics across DZone — and the software engineering space more broadly — it simply felt incomplete to conduct research on the larger impacts of data and the cloud without talking about such a crucial component of modern software architectures: APIs. Communication is key in an era when applications and data capabilities are growing increasingly complex. Therefore, we set our sights on investigating the emerging ways in which data that would otherwise be isolated can better integrate with and work alongside other app components and across systems.For DZone's 2024 Modern API Management Trend Report, we focused our research specifically on APIs' growing influence across domains, prevalent paradigms and implementation techniques, security strategies, AI, and automation. Alongside observations from our original research, practicing tech professionals from the DZone Community contributed articles addressing key topics in the API space, including automated API generation via no and low code; communication architecture design among systems, APIs, and microservices; GraphQL vs. REST; and the role of APIs in the modern cloud-native landscape.

Trend Report

Enterprise AI

In recent years, artificial intelligence has become less of a buzzword and more of an adopted process across the enterprise. With that, there is a growing need to increase operational efficiency as customer demands arise. AI platforms have become increasingly more sophisticated, and there has become the need to establish guidelines and ownership.In DZone's 2022 Enterprise AI Trend Report, we explore MLOps, explainability, and how to select the best AI platform for your business. We also share a tutorial on how to create a machine learning service using Spring Boot, and how to deploy AI with an event-driven platform. The goal of this Trend Report is to better inform the developer audience on practical tools and design paradigms, new technologies, and the overall operational impact of AI within the business.This is a technology space that's constantly shifting and evolving. As part of our December 2022 re-launch, we've added new articles pertaining to knowledge graphs, a solutions directory for popular AI tools, and more.