53 Stories To Learn About Apis

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1. Public ASX100 APIs: The Essential List

We’ve conducted some initial research into the public APIs of the ASX100 because we regularly have conversations about what others are doing with their APIs and what best practices look like. Being able to point to good local examples and explain what is happening in Australia is a key part of this conversation.

2. How To Monitor Your API Server

'Have you developed or are you in the process of creating an API Server that will be used on a production or cloud environment? In this 4th instalment of my Node JS Performance Optimizations series, I show you how to test the availability of your API Server, so that you can understand how many requests per second it can handle whilst performing heavy duty tasks.

3. Get Your Postman Workspace Organized

Learn tricks for Postman that ease your Workspace organization!

4. A Guide to Delivering a Low-code API

This guide will take you through the steps to build and host an API using a low-code platform.

5. How To Build An API Without Coding [Python]

I’ve spent the last 10 years of my life as a System Engineer, which means when I first had to build an API, I had no idea how to do it. I knew python quite a bit since as a SysAdmin I often had to write some smaller or bigger scripts, but building the whole API was a challenge for me. Sure — I could just google the phrase and find dozens of tutorials on how to build an API, but all of them were somehow complicated or created for raw developers (which means — with assumptions that you know already all the tools and frameworks that developers use).

6. My Experience with GraphQL

7. Working with Salesforce APIs? Of CORS!

In this post, we’ll take a closer look at how Cross-Origin Resource Sharing,/CORS, operates. By working with a small Node.js app that interacts with salesforce.

8. Why API Designs are Stuck in the Past

The industry has embraced statically typed languages, but API design remains twenty years in the past. Schema driven development presents an opportunity to pull API design into the present.

9. 4 Standard Business Models for API Monetization

API has been rapidly driving new opportunities for business in last few years. Read in details how top API monetisation models helps in business growth.

10. How to Introduce Collaboration into your API Development Lifecycle

We all know that APIs have become foundational to how organizations streamline integration and build new applications. In essence, they are the connective tissue between different systems, data, and applicationlayers.

11. 51% of Business Leaders Believe They Will Be Left Behind If They Don't Innovate

Learn what IT leaders are prioritizing one year into the COVID-19 pandemic, per new research on the adoption of microservices, open-source tech, and more.

12. Creating Developer-Friendly Data Services with Apache Cassandra

Using data APIs and advanced data modeling will make it far easier for JSON-oriented developers to connect to Apache Cassandra.

13. How To Define HTTP Middleware and Best Practices

In order to capture API calls from arbitrary environments, we had to create middleware for many of the common web API frameworks. Here's what we learnt.

14. How Do APIs Provide a Foundation for Software Innovation

Get a comprehensive Guide about Application Programming Technology or API in a layman's language.

15. Exploring the API-First Design Pattern

Learn how the API-first design pattern is a carbon copy of the successful writing approach that John Vester has leveraged for several years.

16. How To Launch A New Developer Platform That's Self-Service Software

Enterprise software companies sell very differently today than just a decade ago. Previously, most software was shrink-wrapped, required a lot of effort to distribute and implement, and was sold to an executive who would have to deploy it throughout their department or organization. The buying process involved a long sales cycle and often included pilots, cost-benefit analyses, procurement, and legal reviews.

17. Here is the Fastest GraphQL Playground

It's been 2 months of Firecamp's GraphQL playground launching, throughout this time I have been discussing with so many folks about their GraphQL usage and experience with Playground.

18. Introduction to Containers, Microservices on Kubernetes

Containers and Microservices have become the most popular way for new software deployments, and for application re-factoring, such as twelve factor apps.

19. Low-code: Solving the Dark Arts of API Deployment

Creating APIs may be easy, but maintenance and deployment is more often than not, time-consuming and difficult. But it doesn't have to be.

20. How We Delivered New Services Without Building New Services

Our API serves more than 300 million API calls per year. We used an open source integration platform to deliver new services without building from scratch.

21. API Integration in 2021 and a Look at Insights from 2020

What's next for API integration? Share your thoughts in Cloud Elements' industry survey to win prizes and contribute to the industry-renowned report.

22. How to Design API Analytics Data Collection for High Volume APIs

API Analytics are key for any platform company that wants to gain insights into their API and platform usage. These insights can be leveraged by product owners, growth teams, developer relations, and more to make more strategic decisions based on the raw health of your platform business rather than just gut feelings. However, many API platforms have a very high volume of API calls per day. This volume creates a set of unique challenges when designing an analytics system that scales without crippling their platform or having sticker shock when looking at their cloud vendor’s bill. This post goes into some of the inner workings of how we designs Moesif’s API analytics platform to handle companies with billions of API calls a day.

23. An Intro to APIs for Beginners

In layman's terms, API is a messenger. API sets the rules for communication.

24. 54% of Developers Cite Lack of Documentation as the Top Obstacle to Consuming APIs

Recently, I worked with my team at Postman to field the 2020 State of the API survey and report. We’re insanely grateful to the folks who participated—more than 13,500 developers and other professionals took the survey, helping make this the largest and most comprehensive survey in the industry. (Seriously folks, thank you!) Curious what we learned? Here are a few insights in areas that you might find interesting:

25. 7 Companies with Recipe APIs in 2022

An overview of 7 Companies with recipe APIs in 2022

26. Solving for Real ‘Real-Time’ API Monetization

The API Monetization Platform under consideration had an option of choosing between Pay-Per-Use (PPU), Pay-Fixed-Rate (PFR), lease-based, subscription-based and

27. Stoplight's Open-Source October: Hacktoberfest Involvement & Pull-Requests for Trees

Complete an open-source pull request from one of our open-source tools, & we will plan 400 trees in your honor to celebrate Open-Source October & Hacktoberfest.

28. How to Choose the Best API Integration Platform

Discover the most important things to consider when choosing an API integration platform for your B2B SaaS company.

29. 5 Major Factors Impacting the Evolution of APIs

In today’s world of ever-increasing digital interconnectivity, APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have emerged as essential tools for integrating data efficiently and cost-effectively.

30. Building Maintenance Mode for your API Gateway Using Terraform

In my previous blog post, I went through how to create a maintenance mode page for your application, and how to implement it using Terraform and github pages. But the website is just one part of an Application, and often there’s also a public (or private) API that also needs to have a maintenance mode. Let’s see how we can do that using Terraform on API Gateway.

31. Another approach to design API for improved performance!

GraphQL is an amazing specification, no doubt about that. I loved it when it first came into my knowledge but as I started learning it, well, I started to hate it and I still do at some extent because I am still learning it. So much boilerplate code to even starting the graphQL server.

32. Open banking and APIs Can Work Wonders for Crypto Startups

Before the pandemic, the crypto startup scene had a nemesis: lacking demand. In 2021, this changed radically—the number of people leveraging cryptocurrencies reached almost 300 million, and venture capitalists invested a record $25.2 billion in blockchain companies, an eight-fold increase from the previous year, according to a new CB Insights report.

33. API Choice Overload

With so many approaches to proper API design, development and management, it’s pretty easy to get lost just in the planning process.

34. How to Build Email Lookup Extension for Chrome

HazelBase is a powerful identity network that collects data from the internet and provides users with a wealth of information.

35. Learn How to Build an HTTP API with Rust

In this article, I'll write about the developer experience of developing the above application in Rust, compared to what I'm used to with Spring Boot.

36. My Best Travel APIs

APIs are useful tools in general but can be made exceptionally useful when combining a number of them to accumulate information to help you plan trips.

37. Never Make Assumptions: 5 Golden Rules for Web App Development

No matter if you are a startup company or a big enterprise, your app needs to be intuitive and customer-facing to win many hearts. However, designing a user-friendly web app for your business is not so easy. You need to be aware of the complete rules.

38. What's New in WSO2 API Manager 3.2.0?

WSO2 API Manager 3.2.0 the third release of the API Manager 3.x series, simplifies integrating with other ecosystems while reducing complexity of large scale deployments.

39. 8 Most Popular Weather APIs for 2020

The climate is a hot issue and weather forecasting technology is suddenly cool. The urgent need for innovative weather and environmental conditions forecasting solutions is obvious whether you believe in climate change or not.

40. What Is The True Cost of Using Public APIs

How ubiquitous are APIs in today’s development processes? Try asking an engineer how many APIs their project integrates. Most teams won’t know the answer. From analytics tools to maps and cloud hosting, modern applications use a hefty collection of internal and public APIs. Developers use these to quickly assemble applications that would otherwise take much more effort to build. However, there’s a forgotten expense not typically calculated early in a project.

41. Top Tools for Rapid API Development

From design to deploy, these tools will have your API and microservices up and running in no time.

42. How & Why We Built a Git Workflow to Accelerate API Testing

With the release of ReadyAPI v3.3.0, our all-in-one collaborative API quality platform, the team here at SmartBear completed the first round of work on a rethought Git workflow – all available directly within the tool.

43. Great Tools To Help You Build an Awesome API

Learn more about API-FIRST and how it can deliver practical solutions to today's modern IT environment.

44. A Simple Guide to API Development Tools

APIs can be as simple as 1 endpoint for use by 100s of users or as complex as the AWS APIs with 1000s of endpoints and 100s of thousands of users. Building them can mean spending a couple of hours using a low-code platform or months of work using a multitude of tools. Hosting them can be as simple as using one platform that does everything we need or as complex as setting up and managing ingress control, security, caching, failover, metrics, scaling etc.

45. What’s the Difference Between APIs and Webhooks?

An API (Application Programming Interface) enables two-way communication between software applications driven by requests. A webhook is a lightweight API that powers one-way data sharing triggered by events.

46. GraphQL, Streaming, and RESTful API development Come Together in this Open Source Software

Swell is a cross-platform compatible (Mac, Linux, & Windows) desktop application and the leading API dev tool for testing and visualizing steaming TCP connections (ie WebSockets, SSEs, GraphQL subscriptions). Swell functions similarly to Postman, but with the added perks of full streaming and GraphQL support. Being an Open Source project, Swell is 100% free and open to outside contributions.

47. How to Deploy Java GraphQL APIs Using Apifi — A Quick Start Guide

A Quick Start Guide to Getting a Java GraphQL API up and Running in no time Using Apifi.

48. API Development in the Time of COVID-19

Let’s face it.

49. REST API Tools Smackdown

Introduction

50. A Brief Guide to Everything You Need to Know About APIs

In this article, we will be discussing in-depth APIs and web services. Also learn the basics of making an API call, its vulnerabilities, and the future.

51. 13 API Metrics That Every Platform Team Should be Tracking

A list of the most important API metrics every API product manager and engineer should know, especially when you are looking into API analytics and reporting.

52. What is REST APIs?

In this blog, I am going to discuss REST API, what is Rest API, what is the use of REST API and how it works. So I hope you will get some idea about the REST API after reading this blog.

53. An API-First Approach For Designing Restful APIs

I’ve been working with Restful APIs for some time now and one thing that I love to do is to talk about APIs.

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