Looking at different architectural deployment patterns for API Management and assess the merits of each, along with any potential drawbacks. | Continue reading
Greetings all, it’s Martin here, Founder and CEO of Tyk, writing to you all FROM THE FUTURE (OK, New Zealand). It’s Friday evening, I’m enjoying a few glasses of wine, and reflecting on the recent news that we just secured our first ever round of funding, led by MMC Ventures. Tyk … | Continue reading
Busy, Tyk has been these last few months. We’ve travelled to galaxies far, far away (well, Melbourne), enlisted new recruits to join our mission and trained our Tyks at the annual company retreat. With so much going on here, you’d be forgiven for wondering if we’ve forgotten our … | Continue reading
Howdy folks! Martin here, Founder of Tyk Open Source API Gateway. It’s my pleasure to today be officially launching the brand-spanking new Tyk Kubernetes Ingress Controller. Don’t have time to read my blog? Watch my 5 minute introduction to the Tyk Kubernetes Ingress Controller b … | Continue reading
In this post we'll be walking through step-by-step how you can get some insanely low latency and high throughput out of a tiny commodity server. | Continue reading
Tyk plans to add support for native Go plugins: the most peformant and flexible way. Also you will be able to patch existing binaries in runtime. | Continue reading
I have been a huge fan of the TV series, “Halt and Catch Fire”. The series focuses on a group of characters that ride the wave of hardware and software through the 80s and 90s. One character on the show had a saying: "Computers aren't the thing. They’re the thing that gets you to … | Continue reading
Tyk - Open Source API Gateway, API Management Platform, Developer Portal and Analytics - Tyk | Continue reading
It can be challenging to establish an initiative to create APIs and microservices within your organisation. But what happens when the initiative catches on and your teams start to produce a large number of APIs and microservices? Things can get out of hand quickly, resulting in A … | Continue reading
Great APIs help developers do extraordinary and necessary things, often with limited effort. They solve problems that matter to both business leaders and developers. Achieving API adoption requires that we take ownership of our APIs by looking beyond just the technical details an … | Continue reading
Some developers just can’t help comparing technologies: Vim vs. Emacs, .Net vs. Java, and now REST vs. GraphQL. Our recent article sparked quite a bit of this kind of talk, even though the article wasn’t about comparing REST vs. GraphQL. Instead, it was about how REST has been li … | Continue reading
I really enjoy working with our enterprise clients on a daily basis, not least because it gives me huge insight into their requirements and pain points which I can feed back into our product development lifecycle. By doing this I’m able to better understand which Tyk features nee … | Continue reading
A popular myth is that REST-based APIs must be CRUD-based – that couldn’t be further from the truth. It is simply one pattern in our API design toolbox. This article outlines a variety of additional patterns available for REST-based APIs. The intent isn’t to be fully exhaustive, … | Continue reading
Though it might feel like eons since our last release, it was only a few months back that Tyk 2.6 helped take your API management to the next level. Since then, we’ve been back at Tyk’s Cape Canaveral, tinkering away to reach our goal of making our latest release the best-perform … | Continue reading
API design is an important discipline that can contribute to better understanding and faster integration for developers. Even with a great design, if it doesn’t solve the problems of your stakeholders, your API will miss the mark. To avoid this problem, I recommend a design-first … | Continue reading
It’s sometimes crazy to think that it’s only 2 years since Tyk began. In the 24 months since then we’ve witnessed an always-improving (and still open source) API Gateway, a spruced-up Tyk.io, and even a place in the Gartner 2018 Magic Quadrant. Stepping back to survey the gains w … | Continue reading
In part 1, we looked at the fundamentals of HTTP: URLs, methods, response codes, and headers. We then applied these powerful concepts into content negotiation, language negotiation, and hypermedia/HATEOS, allowing our APIs to offer more robust capabilities without affecting our A … | Continue reading
Here’s a common scenario we see quite often: You have a bunch of services sitting in AWS, potentially across multiple regions You want to expose those services in a secure and scalable way with an API gateway You don’t want the overhead of having to deploy and manage that infrast … | Continue reading
There’s an anecdote I like to tell our new hires when they start with us here at Tyk… When Tyk was first launched as an open source API Gateway project, and it was more a side project than a globe-spanning enterprise, I distinctly remember trying to pitch Tyk, via teleconference, … | Continue reading