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API Management
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How to Uncover Actionable Insights from Your API Logs
APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) play a vital role in modern software development. They facilitate communication and data exchange between different applications. APIs have become the backbone of many digital services, enabling seamless integration and enhancing the functionality of various software systems.
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By Collins Offiong
API Management
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Monitoring API Failures with APIToolkit: A Guide to Efficient Endpoint Troubleshooting
In our rapidly evolving digital landscape, having efficient endpoint troubleshooting capabilities is essential for any organization relying on APIs. The ability to quickly identify and resolve failures can ensure smooth operations and a seamless user experience.
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By Collins Offiong
Unlocking the Advantages of OpenAPI (Swagger) Specification for API Development
As a developer who works with APIs, you must be familiar with OpenAPI (Swagger) Specification. But what is it exactly, and why should you use it in your API development?
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By Collins Offiong
API Management
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How to Analyze and Address Frontend API Performance Problems
If you are developing a web application that relies on APIs to fetch data from the backend, you may encounter performance issues that affect the user experience.
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By Collins Offiong
API Management
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Mastering Database Monitoring: Unlocking Key Insights into Performance.
Introduction Database monitoring is an essential aspect of database management that ensures optimal performance, reliability, and security of data. It involves collecting, analyzing, and reporting on various metrics and indicators that reflect the health and activity of a database system.
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By Collins Offiong
API Monitoring
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Understanding the Distinction: Synthetic API Monitoring vs API Real User Monitoring
Performance and dependability of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are essential for any business. API monitoring plays a vital role in maintaining the seamless functioning of applications and delivering exceptional user experiences.
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By Jessica Ofem
API Management, Analytics and Monitoring
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Unlocking the Full Potential of API Gateways: A Comprehensive Guide to API Management, Analytics, and Monitoring
API gateways serve as a crucial component in modern software development, acting as a gateway between external clients and backend servers. However, their true power lies in their ability to unlock the full potential of APIs, enabling organizations to streamline their development process, enhance security, boost performance, and gain valuable insights through analytics and monitoring.
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By Jessica Ofem
API Debugging
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Mastering API Debugging and Monitoring: Best Practices for Seamless Integration
Today the integration of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) has become essential for seamless communication between software systems. As API play a crucial role in modern-day application development, efficient debugging and monitoring are vital for ensuring their smooth operation.
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By Jessica Ofem
API Platform
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The Key Metrics to Measure Developer Success for Your API Platform
Today APIs play a crucial role in enabling seamless integration between different systems and platforms. API platforms provide developers with the tools and resources they need to build innovative applications and connect with users.
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By Jessica Ofem
API Management
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Optimizing API Management in Production: A Comprehensive Guide
API management plays a critical role in the success of any production environment. It involves streamlining navigation, simplifying SDK management, understanding versioning, scaling APIs, unlocking the power of API gateways, mastering best practices, ensuring security, and using essential tools for API gateways.
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By Jessica Ofem
API Documentation
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Detecting API Documentation Errors: What You Should Know
In a grand orchestra, each instrument—from the delicate flute to the robust cello—plays a pivotal role, contributing to a harmonious symphony that captivates the audience. But without a conductor to guide them, these instruments would struggle to create a cohesive melody.
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By Jessica Ofem
API Documentation
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User-Centric API Documentation: How to Cater to Different User Personas
In the dynamic field of programming, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) function as the key connectors between diverse digital environments, streamlining interactions and improving how users engage with software. But what good is a powerful API if its documentation doesn’t speak to the varied needs of its users?
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By Jessica Ofem
APIs
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How to Measure the Effectiveness of Your API Documentation with Analytics
Introduction API documentation is a crucial component of any software development project that involves using or creating APIs. APIs, or application programming interfaces, are sets of rules and protocols that allow different applications to communicate and exchange data.
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By Collins Offiong
API Documentation
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API Documentation Trends to Watch: What's new and exciting
Today Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) serve as the backbone for countless innovations. From powering web services to enabling integrations between disparate systems, APIs are indispensable. However, an API is only as good as its documentation.
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By Jessica Ofem
APIs
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Generating Golang API Doc with Swagger
Imagine you’re a skilled developer who’s just put the final touches on an API – a tool that lets different software talk to each other. This is a big deal because it opens up new possibilities for how programs can work together.
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By Jessica Ofem
APIs
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Resource Modeling in Rest API Design
In the world of API development, effective management and organization of resources are paramount. Resource modeling serves as the architectural backbone of REST APIs, offering a framework for visualizing and planning your API data.
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By Jessica Ofem
APIs Observability
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How APIToolkit Can Help You Gain Insights Into Your API Usage and Behaviour with API Observability
In today’s complex tech ecosystem, APIs work as essential intermediaries, facilitating the exchange of features and data among disparate systems. Often operating behind the scenes, they support a range of technologies, from web-based platforms to Internet of Things devices.
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By Jessica Ofem
API Documentation
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Top 8 API Documentation Tools for Developers for 2023
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have become the building blocks of modern digital experiences. However, even the most robust APIs are rendered ineffective if they lack clear and comprehensive documentation.
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By Jessica Ofem
API Management
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How API Observability Can Boost Your Business Performance and Customer Satisfaction
Practically every modern business in the tech industry is using APIs to connect applications, services, and data. APIs have become the building blocks of digital transformation, enabling us to create innovative products, streamline workflows, and integrate with third-party platforms.
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By Collins Offiong
APIs
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Payment Gateway API Testing: How to Monitor and Improve Quality Assurance
Payment gateway API testing is a crucial aspect of ensuring the smooth and secure operation of an online payment system. The truth is, thoroughly testing the API (Application Programming Interface) can help businesses identify and address any issues before they become a problem for users.
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By Collins Offiong
APIs Observability
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How APIToolkit Can Help You Achieve API Observability Across Your Entire API Lifecycle
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have transitioned from mere tools to essential bridges that connect various online platforms. A compelling statistic from Cloudflare reveals that APIs are responsible for nearly 70% of all web traffic today.
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By Jessica Ofem
APIs
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How to Use Notion for Documentation
(Updated) In an age where information is abundant and projects are increasingly complex, effective documentation has become a cornerstone of successful ventures. Whether you’re a software developer jotting down lines of code, a project manager outlining workflows, or a content creator organizing your thoughts, having a reliable and efficient system for documentation is essential.
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By Jessica Ofem
API Testing
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Common Defects in API Testing: How to Identify and Fix Them
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Daniel Bell Daniel Bell reminds us that technology isn’t just about machines or codes; it’s about human innovation.
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By Jessica Ofem
API Observability
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How to Troubleshoot and Debug Your APIs with API Observability Tools
Imagine you’re hosting a grand party at your home. You’ve invited friends, family, and colleagues. The music is great, and the food is delicious. But, suddenly, the music stops, and the lights go out.
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By Jessica Ofem
API Observability
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API Observability Best Practices: How to Collect, Analyze, and Visualize Your API Telemetry Data
API observability is a critical component of managing and maintaining successful APIs. It allows you to gain insights into the performance, availability, and overall health of your APIs.
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By Collins Offiong
APIs
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The Four Pillars of API Observability
“In a world that’s becoming more connected, APIs are the unsung heroes. Observing them closely is like understanding the pulse of your digital entity.” Jane Doe, Senior API Strategist Have you ever felt that understanding Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) goes beyond just technical knowledge and becomes an art?
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By Jessica Ofem
API Testing
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API Testing Requirements: What You Need to Know Before You Start
We live in a digital age, where Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) act as vital connectors, facilitating seamless communication between software components. Just like we rely on good communication in our daily lives, businesses depend on these APIs.
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By Jessica Ofem
API Testing
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Load Testing vs Stress Testing: What's the Difference and Why It Matters?
Introduction In the modern digital era, ensuring a website or application performs optimally is more crucial than ever. Often, we hear terms like “Load Testing” and “Stress Testing” used interchangeably.
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By Anthony Alaribe
API Management
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Advanced Techniques in API Testing Automation
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the building blocks of modern software development. They enable communication and data exchange between different applications, systems, and devices. However, testing APIs can be challenging, especially when it comes to automation.
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By Collins Offiong
API Management
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Ultimate Guide to API Testing Automation
API testing automation is a crucial aspect of software development that ensures the quality, performance, and reliability of APIs. The number of APIs are expanding exponentially on a yearly basis.
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By Collins Offiong
APIs
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REST APIs are the Future: Compared to RPC, GraphQL, etc
In recent years there has been a lot of hype around new technologies such as GraphQL and RPCs. These technologies are supposed to replace REST as the defacto transports.
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By Anthony Alaribe
API Management
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How Good is Your REST API Workflow?
As a developer who works with web applications, chances are you have encountered REST APIs. REST stands for Representational State Transfer, and it is a software architectural style that defines how web services communicate with each other.
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By Collins Offiong
APIs Management
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Maximizing Your API Performance with Effective Monitoring Strategies
APIs have become an essential component of modern software development, enabling seamless communication between different applications and systems. However, ensuring that your API performs at its best can be a challenging task, especially when dealing with complex integrations and high traffic volumes.
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By Anthony Alaribe
API
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REST APIs and Their Scalability Feature
Scalability has become a buzzword in the software industry, often touted as the golden standard for any system worth its salt. But what exactly does it mean, and how does it relate to REST APIs?
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By Anthony Alaribe
API Observability
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The Importance of API Observability in Software Development
Introduction to API Observability If you’re building or managing APIs, you know how important it is to keep them running smoothly and efficiently. You also know how challenging it can be to monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize them in a complex and dynamic environment.
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By Collins Offiong
API
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Unlocking the Mystery: What Are REST APIs?
Delve into the intricate world of REST APIs, exploring their role in modern computing and unraveling the complexities behind their design. What are REST APIs? Discover the answer and much more in this detailed exploration.
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By Anthony Alaribe
API Management
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How to Optimize Security for Web API Performance in 2023
Web APIs are the backbone of digital transformation, enabling organizations to leverage their data and functionality across different systems and applications. However, as the demand for APIs grows, so does the need for security and performance optimization.
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By Collins Offiong
API Management
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Efficient Data Retrieval and Filtering for Web API Performance
Web APIs are interfaces that allow applications to communicate with each other over the internet. They enable data exchange, integration, and interoperability among different systems and platforms.
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By Collins Offiong
API Management
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Web API Performance Best Practices: the Ultimate Guide
Web APIs are essential for building modern web applications that communicate with other services and systems. They enable developers to expose data and functionality through a standardized interface that can be accessed by various clients, such as web browsers, mobile apps, or other servers.
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By Collins Offiong
API Management
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How to Analyze API Logs and Metrics for Better Performance (Ultimate Guide)
APIs are the backbone of modern web applications. They enable communication and data exchange between different systems and services. Its use has grown rapidly. In 2022, there were an estimated 20 billion APIs in use, and this number is expected to grow to 50 billion by 2025.
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By Collins Offiong
API Management
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Incident Management: How to Resolve API Downtime Issues Before It Escalates
Imagine waking up to an API outage that has cost your business $100,000 in just five hours. That, my friend, can be so heart-rending. Truth is, APIs are great, but APIs can fail.
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By Collins Offiong
API Management
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API Management: How to Tackle Anomalies in RESTful APIs (the Right Way)
No doubt, RESTful APIs have become a critical component of modern software development, favored for its simplicity, scalability, and flexibility. However, with this increased reliance on RESTful APIs comes the challenge of anomalies.
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By Collins Offiong
APIs
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Fintech API: Unlocking the Secrets to its Rapid Growth in the Financial Sector
One of the most significant advancements in the financial sector has been the rise of fintech API. All thanks to digital transformation and technological advancements, Fintech APIs have become a game-changer in global finance.
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By Collins Offiong
APIs
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The Rise of API-as-a-Product: How Companies are Leveraging APIs to Drive Revenue
Image source: Getty Images As technology continues to evolve, companies are finding new ways of leveraging it to drive revenue. One of the latest trends is the use of APIs as a Product.
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By Collins Offiong
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 Monitoring and Documentation: 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 monitoring and documentation has ensured secure and reliable connectivity across a vast chain of programs.
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By Collins Offiong
APIs
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10 Must-Know API trends in 2023
API Top Trends 2023 API analytics and monitoring platforms API-as-a-Product The proliferation of low code and no code API development Machine learning APIs Improvement in API security standards GraphQL Adoptability will Accelerate APIs will become more ubiquitous and hyperconnected The Adoption of Microservices Will Promote the Development of APIs More APIs will provide severless architecture API management takes centre stage 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.
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By Collins Offiong
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 Collins Offiong
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
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
APIs
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API Modeling - The Process And Goals
In today’s interconnected world, application programming interfaces (APIs) have become the backbone of modern software development. APIs enable different software systems to communicate and share data seamlessly, unlocking endless possibilities for innovation and integration.
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By Jessica Ofem
API Documentation
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API Documentation vs API Specification - What it means for you
When it comes to APIs, there are two terms that are often used interchangeably: API documentation and API specification. However, they are not the same thing. Understanding the difference between these two terms is important for developers and businesses alike.
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By Jessica Ofem
APIs
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Key Benefits of API Integration for Developers (with Statistics)
Recently, there have been numerous conversations regarding how important APIs are to improving web-based activity. But there is one thing that we must note, which is Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the building blocks of modern software development.
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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
Image source 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?
In today’s vastly interconnected digital landscape, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) play a pivotal role in enabling seamless communication and data exchange between different software applications. Think of them as a bridge, enabling developers to access the resources and functionalities of other systems, opening up a vast array of opportunities for innovation and integration.
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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 8 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: 14 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
