Facebook just announced an extension to its Facebook Instant Articles SDK that provides support for Google AMP and Apple News articles. Facebook discovered the need for cross-platform support through its interactions with developers at hackathons related to its Facebook Journalism Project.
Read More Here...Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples.
Read More Here...IFTTT is opening its platform to thousands of individual developers. The new Maker tier will allow anyone who signs up to build and publish Applets by using the tools IFTTT unveiled for its partners in November 2016. Makers can build with the more than 430 service APIs that are currently on the platform.
Read More Here...Today, Twilio announced Twilio Functions and while there are other very large API providers — most notably Amazon and Google — who offer serverless function capabilities as a part of their larger IaaS and PaaS portfolios, Twilio appears to be the first major API provider that, in addition to providing APIs, is also offering a serverless execution environment that's specific to consuming them.
Read More Here...Twilio has introduced the Twilio Proxy API, a new API for building private text and voice conversations between customers and mobile workers. This new API is part of the Twilio Engagement Cloud, a suite of Declarative APIs embedded with communications logic for common types of multi-channel customer engagement use cases.
Read More Here...Earlier this year, Mapbox launched its Mapbox Unity SDK. With the launch, Mapbox brought a next generation mapping and location platform to their game industry software. In short, Mapbox wants to empower games across the board with the same type of augmented reality maps that led to the smashing success of Pokemon Go.
Read More Here...MuleSoft, provider of a platform for building application networks, recently announced the availability of Anypoint Platform on the UK government's latest G-Cloud framework, G-Cloud 9. The framework provides UK public sector organisations with a way to buy cloud-based services as commodities to accelerate cloud adoption in a timely and cost-effective manner.
Read More Here...Cloud communications company Twilio has announced early access for the new Add-on Management API. Developers can use the Twilio Add-on Management API to programmatically install, configure, and enable Add-ons in applications.
Read More Here...GitHub just announced a number of new tools to help developers build more effectively. Highlights include a production ready version of the GitHub GraphQL API, the GitHub Marketplace, and GitHub apps.
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The Internet of Things has seen significant growth in the last few years and enterprises are looking to manage their large device installations. It is not surprising to note that the big players in the cloud space have been positioning themselves as IoT platform providers, since they have many of the necessary services in place.
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