Unsurprisingly, the pandemic-ridden era has fueled the rise of APIs in the world. What is more interesting, however, is that with the rise of APIs, a rise in the number of API specification documents has been observed as well. It leads us to believe that more people are adapting to the design-first approach for building […]
About 2 years ago, our lives changed overnight as the Covid-19 pandemic gripped the world. Now, as nearly everyone has received their vaccination shots, life has started to regain some normalcy. Schools have re-opened, meals can be enjoyed together and companies are slowly seeing employees back in the office. At APIMatic, we had moved to […]
Working in an on-premise production environment containing containerized applications for the APIs requires maintaining and managing all the solutions within it amid strict security and availability requirements. This is the reason why setting up containerized images causes a lot of nuisance. Hence, to enable users to run applications on diverse sets of infrastructures on-premises: the […]
The API community seems to have settled upon one ground rule: give the developers what they want, and then some more. Yay for the external developers (the API users), nay for the internal developers (the API developers). The exponential growth in APIs and the consequent competition between the API providers warrant the need for maximum […]
How can you reduce onboarding time to quickly get the developer to their first “Hello World”? One definitive way is to provide an SDK for a developer’s technology stack. An SDK makes it easy for a developer to integrate the API onto their native platforms in ways that are familiar and well-integrated with their existing […]
APIs act as a bridge to multiple tiers in distributed software systems. However, reflecting the changes of fast-evolving APIs among these connected tiers is a huge drain in productivity, and increases the time to market. This means that your software tiers must always remain in sync, and in an ideal world also minimize the redundancy […]
Auckland, NZ – December 14, 2021: APIMatic has performed a detailed analysis of their Java SDKs and confirms that they do not contain direct Log4j v2 dependency, making the SDKs safe from the new zero-day vulnerability, CVE-2021-44228, also called as Log4Shell. Log4j >= version 2.0 has become a global security threat as it allows attackers […]
APIs are meant to be used by developers, which means non-developers typically don’t get a chance to “directly access” the wealth of information provided by APIs. I faced a similar situation last week when I tried using a NASA API to observe our Earth via a satellite sitting a million miles far. The outcome: I […]
How do you define the success of an API? Is it the number of developers using the API, the number of apps built using the API, the revenue stream it has created, or perhaps some other KPI? Whatever the criteria, the important bit is to constantly generate demand among the target audience, and keep […]
