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Extending LogicMonitor with LogicMonitor: An IT Glue Integration

We talk a lot about LogicMonitor's flexibility and extensibility, one reason is that our architecture makes it easy to write integrations to other tools' APIs, while our API lets other tools talk to our platform. This also means you can make LogicMonitor talk to itself.

Scout Now Partnering With API Management Leader DreamFactory

At Scout, we pride ourselves in building a tool that is focused on the developers’ ability to quickly identify performance issues within their applications so they can fix them and resume building the fun stuff. DreamFactory is a robust role-based access tool to help you with API creation and management needs.

Serverless API with ReactJS

The article, Serverless API with ReactJS, was first published on the Serverless Guru website. Let’s build a Serverless REST API for our ReactJS website! In my last article, Deploy ReactJS App with S3 Static Hosting, we discussed hosting a simple React app on AWS with S3. This works great for simple static pages but what if you want to do something more? How do you host your API on S3?

API Monitoring and OAuth 2.0 Authentication

OAuth 2.0 Authentication, as explained by oauth.net, is a “delegation protocol that is used for conveying authorization decisions across a network of web-enabled applications and APIs.” OAuth was created in 2006 by developers from Twitter and Ma.gnolia, a social bookmarking site. Ma.gnolia was looking for a way to use OpenID, along with the Twitter API, to delegate authentication.

Getting Started Using Cycle.io's API With NodeJS

The recent public release of Cycle’s API has already seen all sorts of innovative uses, from automating the deployments of medical applications, to creating customized monitoring services to track specific performance metrics. Everything you can do in the portal can also be accomplished via the API — it’s actually the exact same API we used to build the portal!