Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “API”
What are microservices? Do they have to be small? What do APIs have to do with all this? Microservice application architecture is the current favorite, new model for application development in general and Cloud-native applications in particular. But what are they, how do they work and why are they better …
The pundits are wrong. The Public vs Private vs Hybrid argument is sort of like arguing whether a truck, sedan or SUV is the car to own. Kumulus Technologies CTO, Robert Starmer, explains why like the car analogy, each deployment or service model has distinctive pros and cons that make …
DeFrag Con 10 was actually the last (it will merge with GlueCon after this) and it went back to its roots with a strong Cloud development focus. Robert Starmer, Kumulus Tech CTO and Founder, attended and shares his takeaways from the two days of keynotes and presentations. Day 1 Key …
OpenStack is, first and foremost, built to provide an Infrastructure-as-a-Service, however, its versatility has lent it to breaking out of that box and being used to build and support both PaaS and SaaS clouds. In this episode Robert Starmer, the CTO of Kumulus Technologies discusses how SaaS works and how …
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) is “the Developer’s Cloud” – a cloud computing service model that provides software developers with the tools they need to build and deploy applications, without the need to worry about managing infrastructure. OpenStack, though designed as an Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform has several PaaS systems that integrate with it. In …
Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) is the Cloud Computing service model most are familiar with, but exactly what SaaS means is changing. SaaS is moving beyond the role of Storage, Office, Productivity, Messaging, etc. for enterprise users. We are starting to see some SaaS applications approaching PaaS-like functionality, where machine-to-machine, machine-to-human, and human-to-machine …
We’ve been working with the Romana Project, an OpenStack-integrated software defined networking (SDN) solution to get their top notch IPAM solution to integrate with Neutron’s IPAM APIs. The journey was challenging, but the end result was worth the effort and provides a cloud-native SDN solution that integrates not only with …
