After approximately six months of brainstorming, developing partial solutions and working with a few ICO startups and blockchain oriented enterprises, we came up with the revolutionary idea called “dAPIs”. dAPIs are the next generation decentralized APIs and microservices, which have been designed for decentralized execution in a similar way as DLT is used for decentralized storage.
At that point we knew we stumbled upon something revolutionary.
In Q4 we have focused on the development of OpenAPI and Swagger support for Kumuluz APIs and microservices. Furthermore, we have added support for creating APIs and microservices with reactive development practices. This is important, as it is the first step towards truly loosely coupled services that do not rely on operation invocation, but use reactive events instead. We also developed live health check support for better resilience and self-healing of APIs and microservices.
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The end of the last year was fully focused on planning and defining the new scope of the project. We presented the idea to a few potential customers (blockchain startups, enterprises) and a few of our existing customers and the excitement from all sides was clearly shown. The concept of dAPIs is something that every advanced technology company will need to achieve true decentralization.
The Kumuluz business idea is also a perfect fit for crowdfunding, being backed by technology enthusiasts who believe in true decentralized world. Besides dAPIs, we developed several other concepts to make Kumuluz is a real success in the blockchain world, among others:
In Q1 we are updating support for OpenAPI and Swagger. We have introduced a new version for configuring microservices, which is a step towards true decentralized configuration. Together with discovery service they provide the foundation for decentrazlization, as through discovery services, implemented in Kumuluz, API and service location becomes irrelevant for the client. We have also introduced metrics to allo real-time runtime metric collection and analysis. This is the basis for analyzing runtime performance for each API and microservice.
We have also started work on introducing Java SE 9/10+ and Java EE 8 support to our framework and are about to release the first beta. Furthermore, we have been working on adding automated testing support to APIs and microservices.
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In Q2 2018 we will focus on several important Kumuluz building blocks. Most importantly, we will introduce the first demo of the Kumuluz marketplace, which will showcase how you can find, locate, test, and use dAPIs through our marketplace. We will release a proof-of-concept demonstration for the Kumuluz dAPI Marketplace, which will show how dAPIs can be published, searched, versioned and reused out of the marketplace. We will also extend support for different API protocols, including gRPC and GraphQL. We will add support for Node.js, from which you will be able to use a native library to access config, discovery and other functionalities.
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In Q3 2018, we will continue the development of the decentralized API technology, which is the cornerstone of the decentralization of business logic. We will also develop the first release candidate for the Kumuluz Marketplace and present the proof-of-concept for the cloud abstraction and decentralized file abstraction layer. We will also deliver the stable release KumuluzEE 3. Furthermore, we will introduce smart contracts for dAPIs, distributed tracing and the REST client. We will also deliver Crypto Payment and Invoice services.
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In Q4 2018, we will release the first general availability technology for dAPIs to provide stable environment for production. We will also release the RC 2 version for the Marketplace and a new versions of the cloud and decentralized file abstraction. We will follow with the KumuluzEE 3.1 release and present the Blockchain abstraction layer. Furthermore, we will release the beta 2 version for smart contracts for dAPIs. We will also release several services, including the Wallet service, Order Management service, Fulfillment service and Smart contract templates.
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In 2019 we plan fast expansion on the global market, Kumuluz marketplace being truly alive.
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Want to know more about our final vision? Well, our vision is to make the world truly decentralized. We want to empower every blockchain startup or enterprise to develop their products faster, in the right kind of way. We want to make sure every dApps development team can truly develop decentralized digital solutions on all the software layers.
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