Blog · page 3 of 10
Writing
113 posts RSS
No sponsorships, no affiliate links, no paid placements. Editorial policy.
- Best API Testing Tools Contract, functional and load testing are three different jobs. How each behaves in CI, what test data costs, and which tools survive a spec change.
- Best Open Source API Gateways Which gateway features sit behind the enterprise wall in each project, what rebuilding them yourself actually costs, and seven options compared on that line.
- Best API Gateways for Kubernetes Gateway API versus Ingress, where a service mesh overlaps, per-route config ergonomics, and the Envoy-based options compared on operational complexity.
- Kong vs Apigee vs AWS API Gateway Three different bets: a self-hostable data plane, an enterprise API program suite, and a cloud-native managed service. Lock-in depth and what you can operate.
- Best API Gateways What a gateway actually does in the request path, what it costs in added latency and a new failure domain, and ten options compared on that basis.
- Best API Management Platforms Gateway, management platform and developer portal are three different products sold as one. What each actually does, and what you need at every company size.
- Best Auth Solutions for Mobile Apps Keychain and Keystore storage, why biometric unlock is a local gate not a factor, background refresh races, deep link hijacking and offline auth state.
- Best Identity Verification and KYC Tools Document checks, liveness and injection attacks, per-check pricing and the false rejection cost in lost signups, plus how verification differs from auth.
- Best API Authentication Tools and Patterns API keys, OAuth client credentials and mTLS compared by the failure that picks each one: rotation without breakage, scope design, and revocation delay.
- Best Auth Solutions for Next.js How Next.js auth really works across server components, route handlers and middleware, why the Edge runtime rules some libraries out, and what to pick.
- Best MFA Providers for Developers TOTP, push and SMS ranked honestly by interception risk, plus enrolment drop-off, step-up APIs and the recovery code handling that most implementations get wrong.
- Best Session Management Libraries JWT versus opaque sessions with the revocation problem stated honestly, refresh token rotation, cookie flags, fixation, and seven libraries worth shortlisting.