We meet regularly to share and learn how to design, publish, operate and use APIs. Presenters include practitioners from among the group, solution and service providers, and corporations that have published either private or public APIs.
API Craft and Platform Engineers meetup groups are in Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand. API Craft Singapore: https://www.meetup.com/API-Craft-Singapore/ API Craft Indonesia: https://www.meetup.com/API-Craft-Indonesia/ API Craft Bangkok: https://www.meetup.com/API-Craft-Bangkok/ Platform Engineers Singapore: https://www.meetup.com/platform-engineers-singapore/
Jon Scheele, based in Singapore, runs apiConnections. Jon is the founder of blue connector Connect with Jon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/scheelejon/
Apidays is the leading industry tech and business series of conferences in APIs and the programmable economy. We bring apidays to South East Asia & South Asia: Join us at apidays Singapore 21-22 April 2022: https://www.apidays.global/singapore/ Join us at apidays India 11-12 May 2022: https://www.apidays.global/india/
blue connector is the power behind apiConnections and apidays Singapore and India. See how blue connector connects you to the digital economy: https://blueconnector.co/
We meet regularly to share and learn how to design, publish, operate and use APIs. Presenters include practitioners from among the group, solution and service providers, and corporations that have published either private or public APIs.
Session 1: Adaptive Apps, a new pattern for cloud application management Adaptive Apps is a new design pattern concept. Application focused but serving infrastructure, connectivity, management and observability all in one.
Speaker: Buu Lam, Community Evangelist, F5 DevCentral
https://www.linkedin.com/in/buulam/ Technical Debt is where you inherit, or develop over time, a complicated technology…
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On 20 July, apiConnections held our first in-person meetup in Singapore for over two years. Rajalakshmi "Raji" Srinivasan, Director, Product Management, Site24x7, ZohoCorp presented best practices in monitoring API performance. Here is a summary of Raji's presentation. Key Takeaways: Why API performance affects the customer experience The key pillars of API observability Monitoring what’s…
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In South East Asia, Open Finance happens differently. Without any regulatory requirement, Open Finance is led by industry. There are no regulations for banks to provide data API’s. The bottom-up innovation has happened from banks, non-bank lenders, e-wallets and fintech in identifying and scaling new commercial models that are driven by API-based financial services. The purpose of sharing this is…
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This is the second in a series of guides to help you prepare to become an NGINX Super User. You can sign up for the NGINX Super User Challenge at the bottom of the page. Web server, reverse proxy, load balancer and API Gateway are just a few of the use cases that can be met with NGINX's open source and NGINX+ servers. Here's how to locate and understand the configuration logic. Use cases for NGINX…
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The understanding of Digital Transformation (DT) is a misnomer and there are reasons why digital transformations turn out to be a great failure. According to Dr. Dennis Khoo, there is no such thing as digital transformation as there is no way to completely change digitally. Digital transformation is actually to improve the experiences of businesses at lower costs by leveraging processes, people…
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Security cannot be an afterthought. To be effective, security must be incorporated into the full API development pipeline, from design through development, test, deployment and production. Learn how to protect your APIs and applications, applying processes and tools to address API vulnerabilities beyond the OWASP Top 10, to keep your APIs, and their underlying services, safe. Agenda Why security…
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This is the era of cutting edge technologies where APIs are the most crucial part. Security comes first for any organisation hence breaking APIs ourselves before Hackers do, is most important. Sunny Singh, Lead Security Engineer at Calibo, shows multiple offensive ways to break APIs manually and with tools by following the OWASP Top 10 API Vulnerabilities. Agenda Introduction API Security Lab…
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We’ve seen a remarkable shift to the digital economy in the last two years, as individuals and companies have sought to moderate the effects of the pandemic by digitising activities and information flows. But the shift has also exposed more people and systems to cyber attack. APIs, as a key building block of the digital economy, have increasingly been targeted. Singapore is already a hub for trade…
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Are you a full stack developer, engineer or API designer? Do you know how to build an API Gateway, load balancer or reverse proxy? apiConnections has partnered with NGINX to bring you a staged program to prepare you for the Super User assessment. Topics covered: NGINX configuration context logic NGINX as reverse proxy HTTP load balancing NGINX Instance Manager NGINX as API Gateway NGINX Ingress…
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This is the first of a series of guides to help you prepare to become an NGINX Super User. You can sign up for the NGINX Super User Challenge at the bottom of the page. Web server, load balancer and API Gateway are just a few of the use cases that can be met with NGINX's open source and NGINX+ servers. Here's how to locate and understand the configuration logic. Use cases for NGINX open source and…
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Regional and international leaders shared how innovative companies are introducing new business models and technologies across South East Asia’s growth economies to bring millions of enterprises of all sizes, and their customers, into the digital economy. Tracks Building and protecting the digitised enterprise Data-driven business Partner ecosystems Open Finance, Fintech and connecting the next…
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Learn lessons from API breaches, and best practices for API security controls including regulatory advisory for financial institutions. F5's Bharat Merja explains the role of the API gateway in future-proofing your API security. Agenda Growth of APIs in powering digital transformation Securing APIs – lessons from breaches Security controls for APIs – including regulatory advisory for financial…
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Sandipan Mitra explains how APIs are driving innovation in financial services. You will learn: How mature is Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) in each geography, Segmentation of Banking Services exposed as APIs, Different stakeholders in the ecosystem, Regulators and Compliance. Sandipan's presentation was based on Bank Open's detailed report on BaaS, which is available at: https://baas.bankopen.com…
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Over the past couple of years, India Stack has revolutionized the Indian Financial system with its 3 technology stack or layers - presenceless layer, paperless layer and cashless layer. Missing Consent Layer is being brought in via the Data Empowerment & Protection Architecture (DEPA). Get notified of articles, recordings and upcoming meetups Subscribe to our newsletter to find out when new…
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MyInfo speeds up the Know-Your-Customer (KYC) processes for individual customers utilising customers' National Digital Identity (SingPass) and government data. James Lee, Lead Solutions Architect, Government Technology Agency (GovTech), explains how GovTech set about leveraging SingPass, and applying a digital workflow to gaining customer consent, streamlining the onboarding process for both…
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