“As organizations seek a competitive edge through innovative digital experiences, they need to invest equally in state-of-the-art technologies and in fostering the productivity of their software development teams,” said Christopher Davey, vice president and general manager of API management at WSO2. “With new functionality for managing AI services as APIs and extended support for Kubernetes as the preferred platform for digital innovation, WSO2 API Manager and WSO2 APK are continuing to enhance developers’ experiences while delivering a future-proof environment for their evolving needs.”

The company announced its Egress API Management capability, which allows developers to manage their AI services as APIs. It supports both internal and external AI services, and offers full life cycle API management, governance, and built-in support for providers such as OpenAI, Mistral AI, and Microsoft Azure OpenAI. 

The egress, or outbound, gateway experience enforces policies, providing secure and efficient access to AI models, as well as reducing costs by allowing companies to control AI traffic via backend rate limiting and subscription-level rate limiting of AI APIs. 

WSO2 also announced many new features to support the increase of APIs running on Kubernetes. A new version of the WSO2 API Microgateway — a cloud-native gateway for microservices — has been released, and it aligns with the latest WSO2 API Manager release, improving scalability while also maintaining governance, reliability, and security.

WSO2 APK was updated to align with the gRPC Route specification, improving integration with Kubernetes environment and facilitating better control over gRPC services. 

The latest version of WSO2 APK also includes new traffic filters for HTTP Routes, providing more flexibility and precision when routing HTTP traffic.

For better developer productivity in general, WSO2 also improved API discoverability by updating the unified control plane in the WSO2 API Manager so that now developers can search for APIs using the content in API definition files directly in the Developer Portal and Publisher portal.

And finally, to improve security and access control, the control plane also now supports the ability to configure separate mTLS authentication settings for production and sandbox environments. The latest release also adds support for personal access tokens (PAT), which provide secure, time-limited authentication to APIs without a username and password. 

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The WSO2 API Manager control plane was updated to now be able to manage both itself and WSO2 APK. This allows WSO2 APK APIs to benefit from the API Manager’s capabilities and the Developer Portal and Marketplace.

According to the company, benefits include a more streamlined development process, a unified platform for building comprehensive API strategies, and the ability to deploy large numbers of APIs in a scalable way. 

The control plane also gives both platforms access to the WSO2 AI Developer Assistant, providing new features like AI-based search functionality in the Developer Portal and AI-based API testing. 

WSO2 APK also added support for the GraphQL query language to make it easier for developers to request data from their own services. 

The company also introduced a VS Code extension for the WSO2 Micro Integrator, which is an integration platform for connecting different applications. The extension will be available as a developer preview on May 7th. 

The new extension also provides access to the MI Copilot, which allows developers to describe their integration in natural language and then receive recommended configurations. 

“With our new AI-based assistants, unified control plane for WSO2 API Manager and WSO2 APK, and WSO2 Micro Integrator for VS Code extension, we are enhancing these developers’ experiences by offering a more user-friendly, productive, and future-proof environment that aligns with their evolving needs,” said Christopher Davey, vice president and general manager of WSO2’s API & integration software business unit.

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Key highlights of Identity Server 7.0 include a new authentication API, a new visual editor, and one-click access to application templates.

The new authentication API allows developers to build authentication flows that happen directly in an application rather than redirecting to a browser. It supports conditional authentication based on risk factors, user and access context, and other considerations. It also supports the use of OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect flows. 

The new visual editor allows developers to look at both graphical and code views right next to each other. This allows them to see visually what the user will see as they write code. 

The new one-click template access provides developers easy access to a variety of application templates (web, mobile, single-page, etc) and authentication types (one-time password, trusted token provider, third-party authentication, etc).

“Organizations delivering digital experiences need an IAM solution that enables developers to readily adapt to the evolving needs of the business, customers and partners,” said Geethika Cooray, vice president and general manager of identity and access management at WSO2. “Our secret sauce has always been to provide developers an awesome experience that maximizes their productivity and flexibility, and WSO2 Identity Server 7.0 takes that to a whole new level.”

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The award is decided on by IEEE’s Computer Society Technical Community on Services Computing (TCSVC). It recognizes technologists that have significant influence on “the direction of research and development of the field, transferred theory to practice in significant and innovative ways, and/or enabled the delivery of impactful commercial service products/systems/solutions.”

Over his 30 years in the industry, Weerawarana has led the creation of web service and open-source technologies that were important to the creation of the API economy.

For example, he co-authored specifications such as Web Services Description Language (WSDL) and Business Process Execution Language of Web Services (BPEL4WS). 

Weerawarana also worked on open-source technologies like the Apache Axis2 web service engine and the Ballerina programming language.

In addition, in his time at WSO2, the company has driven innovations that are used by Fortune 500 companies, universities, and government agencies. The company’s Choreo platform applies fundamentals of BPEL4WS in a low-code format so that non-programmers can build distributed applications. 

“I have been lucky to be at the center of several major software technology waves that have provided opportunities to reshape how technologists build solutions and experiences that improve the way we work, live and play,” said Dr. Weerawarana. “I am deeply honored to be recognized with the 2022 IEEE TCSVC Research Innovation Award, and I look forward to continuing to push the boundaries of how software can support organizations and the people they serve.”

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According to WSO2, Choreo allows organizations to rapidly deliver new digital experiences by creating and deploying services, integrations, and APIs in hours or days rather than weeks or months.

Because Choreo is built on the Ballerina cloud-native, open-source programming language and runtime, it enables developers of differing skill levels to create apps using varying views of the code. 

This allows users to focus on building only the core logic they need while AI assisted development helps to increase productivity and decrease time to market.   

This release also brings simplification to DevOps and deployment by replacing custom tooling and scripting with built-in multi-stage, CI/CD delivery as well as deep observability for automatically building, testing, and deploying apps on Kubernetes.

Additionally, Choreo comes with services, integrations, and APIs that are secured by default. This is due to an open standards-based API gateway with security and rate limiting, authentication and authorization, and encryption for all messages.

“The ability to quickly deliver new digital products and services is separating the market leaders from the followers in almost every industry,” said Eric Newcomer, chief technology officer at WSO2. “The Choreo digital platform as a service democratizes the necessary capabilities for building cloud native apps and services. Now developers can immediately collaborate on creating, deploying, securing, and monetizing APIs, integrations and services that deliver business value and great customer experiences.”

For more information on this release, click here. 

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Ballerina is designed specifically for developers interacting with the cloud. It aims to simplify the process of being able to use, combine, and create network services.  

According to WSO2, it provides “bidirectional mapping of sequence diagrams and code.” This allows developers to switch between working with traditional code and low-code as needed. It also abstracts away a lot of complexity in developing cloud-native applications by providing a way to represent network interactions and streamlining functions related to data usage, configurations, and cloud deployments. 

“The move to cloud native applications—which are inherently integrations of services, data, transactions and processes—has rendered many older programming languages obsolete,” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, founder of the Ballerina project and founder and CEO of WSO2. “With our Ballerina Swan Lake release now in GA, development teams for the first time have a modern programming language that simplifies cloud native app development and integration, facilitates collaboration, and enables developers to rapidly innovate new digital products and services.” 

The Swan Lake release of Ballerina extends its VS Code plugin to enable developers to use Ballerina to simultaneously edit applications in VS Code graphically and textually. The plugin also includes intelligent code completion. 

Other features of Ballerina include a framework for package management, a public web service for sharing modules, a documentation framework, an interactive command-line shell, and built-in tooling for OpenAPI, gRPC, and AsyncAPI.

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These new solutions, powered by Ballerina, will offer users a choice to code or use low code in order to deliver DevOps and modern SDLC practices, including integrated reuse, within and beyond the organization. WSO2 will use this Goldman Sachs funding to deliver a new generation of platform-as-a-service offerings that will help to democratize the adoption of its cloud-native technologies for API management, integration, and customer identity and access management (CIAM).

Additionally, WSO2 will invest a portion of the $90 million in extending the capabilities and community around Ballerina, an open-source language for building cloud-native applications.  Users of WSO2’s initial commercial solution to utilize Ballerina, Choreo, can collaborate in creating new apps and digital services via code, low code, and no code, regardless of their skill level.

“With more enterprises embracing digital business models, we’re seeing growing demand for our uniquely integrated approach to coupling best-in-class API management and integration with identity and access management,” said Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, WSO2 founder and CEO. “To date, we’ve been financing the growth of our business with our own profits and have secured over 800 customers in over 80 countries, including several Fortune 1000 customers. Now, with the funding from Goldman Sachs, we can accelerate delivery of our next-generation Choreo integration platform as a service (iPaaS) and Asgardeo identity as a service (iDaaS) solutions, which significantly lower the skills, time and cost barriers to delivering secure new digital services, as well as further expand our partner network and scale faster globally.”

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In addition, the IDaaS provides built-in CIAM best practices and workflows through a range of templates and other low-code/no-code operations. Asgardeo also allows developers to integrate security code while working within familiar environments.

“With Asgardeo, enterprises can now encode their security policies and standards to reduce development time and transform security reviews into simple check-the-box exercises,” said Eric Newcomer, CTO of WSO2. “At the same time, using Asgardeo, it’s easier than ever for development teams to foster customer loyalty by giving them a great enrollment experience and building these users’ confidence in the protection of their personal information.”

Developer preview of Compose for Wear OS

Google announced at its Google I/O conference that Jetpack Compose is coming to Wear OS with the developer preview of Compose for Wear OS. Compose works to simplify and expedite UI development with built-in support for Material You to enable users to create apps with less code.

With Compose for Wear OS, most of the users’ Wear-related changes will be at the top architectural layers, meaning any dependencies already in use with Jetpack Compose stay the same when targeting Wear OS. 

To get started using Compose for Wear OS, visit the quick start guide here. 

.NET 6 RC2

Microsoft announced the release of .NET 6 Release Candidate 2, the second of two “go live” releases that are supported in production. Linux, MacOS, and Windows users can download this latest release here.

C# 10 is an important aspect of this release and it will work as an evolution of existing concepts and capabilities such as records and patterns. In addition, it includes other features like global using and file-scoped namespaces. These new features help users simplify code and write less boilerplate. 

For more information on this release and its features, visit here. 

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It allows users to automatically collect and route info to the right teams, standardize how to collect and share info up front, and create a customized workflow.

“By doing all of this in Slack, where your team is already working, you’re keeping things simpler and more transparent for everyone. Building a workflow takes just a few clicks. You can customize it for the way you work and publish it for your team to use all in a matter of minutes,” Slack explained.

The details on the tool are available here.

WSO2 announces Identity Server with RESTful APIs
WSO2 announced the release of Identity Server, a new configuration model and RESTful APIs for self-service IAM. 

The new solution includes new adaptive authentication options, cross-protocol single logout, multi-domain federation support for Microsoft Azure AD and Office 365 and built-in support for managing active user sessions. 

“As enterprises conduct more of their business online, developers need to implement IAM solutions that ensure both secure, easy access for users and simplified management for administrators  — often across multiple systems and cloud domains,” said Prabath Siriwardena, the vice president of security architecture at WSO2. 

Databricks announces new MLflow capability
Unified data analytics provider Databricks announced the release of Model Registry, a new capability within MLflow, that enables a comprehensive model management process. 

The Model Registry allows organizations to collaborate on models and optimize the development lifecycle of ML through one collaborative hub, flexible CI/CD pipelines and full visibility and governance of the experimentation, testing and production phases. 

The Model Registry is available on Databricks and provides the benefits of its Unified Data Analytics Platform including enterprise-level security, scale, and fine-grained access controls, the company said.

The full details of the new capabilities are available here. 

CloudBolt 9.0 released with hybrid cloud management strategies
Cloud management platform CloudBolt announced its new Cloudbolt 9.0 platform (dubbed ‘Cumulus’ meaning ‘multi’) with new capabilities to mitigate cost and accelerate the time-to-value for enterprise hybrid cloud management. 

CloudBolt 9.0 comes with expanded support for Kubernetes, extended support for IaC with out-of-the-box integration with Terraform, and new integrations with Infoblox, phpIPAM, ServiceNow. It also integrated Splunk to enable IT to send logs to security information and event monitoring as well as integrations with APM solutions Datadog and SolarWinds. 

The 9.0 release builds upon CloudBolt’s platform capabilities by simplifying multi-cloud management with a single pane of glass, accelerating workload delivery through self-service IT, and enforcing governance through centralized automation and orchestration as enterprises continue their hybrid cloud journeys.

The full details on the new platform are available here.

Ranorex Studio 9.2 is now available
Ranorex Studio 9.2 is now available with support for WinForms and WPF applications running with .NET Core 3.0.

The updated version includes a new pause and resume test execution feature, toolchain maintenance with support for Jenkins Pipeline and Azure DevOps build and release management and faster test execution.

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“In today’s digitally driven economy, no organization is an island. Instead, a rapidly expanding stream of processes and information is flowing across enterprise teams, their customers and partners. In the process, every software project is becoming an integration project,” said Tyler Jewell, CEO of WSO2. “The Fall 2018 Release of our WSO2 Integration Agile Platform supports this new reality by advancing the ability of enterprises to effectively analyze and secure their integrated apps and services, as well as speed their integration releases and rapidly respond to changing business demands.”

IEEE launches study and topic interest groups for IEEE 802.11
IEEE has launched a study group and topic interest group focused on advancing the IEEE 802.11 standard (WiFi). These groups will invite stakeholders to participate in their respective areas of focus.

The IEEE 802.11 Real Time Applications Topic Interest Group is working to document usage models and requirements metrics for applications.

“Immersive gaming, for example, is very latency sensitive and requires a quick turnaround on packets for users to enjoy a high-quality experience. Jitter, packet loss and what’s going on throughout the network can have a large impact on these real-time applications, which may have only moderate bandwidth requirements but have very low tolerance for latency,” said Allan Jones, chair of the IEEE 802.11 Real Time Applications Topic Interest Group. “What we’re trying to do in our group is define more specifically what these requirements are for this particular category of applications, toward the goal of informing ongoing IEEE 802.11 innovation.”

Netlify raises $30 million to replace webservers with Application Delivery Networks
Netlify has raised $30 million in a funding round led by Kleiner Perkins’ Mamoon Hamid, with participation from Andreessen Horowitz and the founders of Slack, Yelp, GitHub, and Figma.

The company will use the funding to replace web servers with an Application Delivery Network. According to Netlify, this removes the dependency on origin infrastructure and enables companies to host entire applications globally.

Mozilla improves call speed between JavaScript and WebAssembly
Mozilla has updated WebAssembly to makes calls between JavaScript and WebAssembly faster. According to the company, in the latest version of Firefox Beta, those calls are faster than calls between non-inlined JavaScript to JavaScript.

Mozilla achieved this by getting rid of unnecessary work to organize stack frames as well as taking the most direct path between functions.

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