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API Documentation
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How to Generate Automated API Documentation
Hey there! Let’s talk about API documentation. How Does API Documentation Work? Imagine purchasing a smart device without a manual. You can’t use it. This is how essential documentation is in the API developer’s toolkit.
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By Collins Offiong
API Observability
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API Documentation and Observability: The Truth You Must Know
Connectivity is one fantastic thing that has put the world at our fingertips, and technology has made this even easier with the use of APIs. The technology stack behind API documentation and observability has ensured secure and reliable connectivity across a vast chain of programs.
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By Collins Offiong
APIs
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Must-Know API trends in 2023
According to Google, APIs are now the “crown jewels” of modern software development, providing the connective tissue that powers nearly every digital product available today. What do developers do with APIs these days?
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By Irhose Apori
API Observability
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Best API Monitoring and Observability Tools in 2023
With API observability, out of sight shouldn’t mean out of mind. APIs work in the background using simple commands to move requests back and forth. Perhaps because they do a lot of background work, QA teams tend to neglect them.
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By Irhose Apori
APIs
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Anomalies Detection And Data Validation Of Api Projects
In high-performance software systems, detecting performance anomalies and taking corrective or preventive actions are important requirements. API gateways are key component of enterprise integration architectures with the advent of the API Economy.
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By Jessica Ofem
APIs
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Generating Golang API Doc with Go-Swagger
As a developer you’ve just completed the development of a brand-new API and now need to provide documentation to aid you when constructing client-side applications that use the API.
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By Jessica Ofem
APIs
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How to Use Notion for Documentation
Documentation is a vital part of any product because it aids in making clear directives, specifics, staff conversations, and other information that can be unclear to not just workers but users too.
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By Jessica Ofem
Newsletter
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Newsletter 10/22: Documentation matters?
Most of us learn the value of documentation the hard way by finding it to be lacking just when we need it most. Both project developers and software users benefit from projects that have thorough documentation.
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By Anthony Alaribe
APIs
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API alternative to Puppeteer for taking screenshots
The API market is booming. Every day you can see more and more APIs you can build your services upon. And many APIs have good open-source alternatives. You can host the alternative and have all control over it.
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By Dmytro Krasun
API Documentation
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Writing API Documentation - Best Practices and Mistakes to Avoid
Best practices. Photo from Pexels.com An API is only as good as the API documentation because a good API can be rendered useless if users don’t know how to use it, a documentation is often essential for success in the API economy Read more on API documentation.
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By Jessica Ofem
API Documentation
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Top 8 API Documentation Tool for Developers
If you are going to make a product which connects to the internet you will certainly need an API. Just incase you do not know what an API is you can take a look.
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By Jessica Ofem
APIs
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API Modeling - The Process And Goals
API modeling is a breakdown of how an API design will look in order to establish better communication procedures before designing the API. API modeling assists designers in answering some critical questions that appear to be the core of the design in the long run.
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By Jessica Ofem
API Documentation
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API Documentation vs API Specification - What it means for you
What is API Documentation? API documentation serves as a user guide or manual, explaining how to utilize the API to its users. Developers are the primary audience for API documentation this doesn’t mean that non-techies can’t have access to this.
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By Jessica Ofem
APIs
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Resource Modeling in Rest API Design
In Rest API any information that can be named can be a resource. Resources in Rest can either be a sigleton or a collection. Resource modeling is a concept for resource management that lets you see resource data visually.
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By Jessica Ofem
APIs
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Benefits of API Integration to Developers
Recently, there have been numerous conversations regarding how important APIs are to improving web-based activity. Although the developer’s perspective has not received much attention, APIs are incredibly useful to every set of specialists.
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By Jessica Ofem
APIs
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Top 10 API Tools for Developers
The primary objective of tools developers use is to make life easier and enhance work processes. With APIs, the story is pretty much the same. Developers use a ton of tools to keep sane, manage APIs and churn out quality API products.
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By Irhose Apori
API Observability
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API Observability and Monitoring: What’s the Difference?
This is where we like to play—the not so clearly defined border of API observability and API monitoring. It’s why our tool was built. We wanted to help startup teams with the heavy-lifting.
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By Irhose Apori
APIs
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What You Need to Know About REST APIs
A concise review of the basics of REST APIs Let’s say you work for a candy shop and you’re trying to build an application to show the variety of candy in stock and allow the workers to make updates.
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By Irhose Apori
APIs
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Everything You Need to Know About SOAP API
A review of the principal points to note about SOAP API Among the many benefits of SOAP is that it helped introduce Web Service APIs to the world.
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By Irhose Apori
APIs
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A Comprehensive API Management Strategy for Businesses
APIs are very significant tools for developers. Sadly, there are teams that just don’t know how to manage them. This leads to broken APIs, data losses, downtimes, etc.
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By Irhose Apori
APIs
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The Developer’s Guide to Web Service APIs, Structures, and Protocols
Each time you log in to your favorite website using your Google account, the website communicates with Google via a web API. Before delving into what web service APIs are, perhaps I should define what an API is.
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By Irhose Apori
APIs
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What Are The Principal Types of Web-Based APIs?
APIs are amazing because they allow developers to exponentially enhance the way programs work by communicating with other software systems. But not all APIs are created equal.
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By Irhose Apori
APIs
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Apis and Web Services
Developers tend to be finicky about describing things they work with. There are developer debates as old as time itself (maybe not that old, but yunno…). For instance, is HTML a programming language?
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By Irhose Apori
Top 7 Reasons Why Your Team Should Use A Plug & Play API Monitoring Tool — APIToolkit.io
Your website is a dynamic entity. A lot happens on a daily basis; hundreds or more API requests are sent regularly which makes monitoring the integrity of each call a demanding task.
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By Irhose Apori
API Documentation
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How to Write API Documentation: 10 Essential Guidelines
As is the way with most programming concepts, documentation is vital. An API might as well be gibberish if the documentation isn’t laid out properly. Developing easy-to-understand API documentation can be quite challenging.
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By Irhose Apori
