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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
Testing
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What is API Testing and Why Should You Do It?
Photo by Fahim Muntashir on Unsplash If you’re reading this, then I’m going to assume you already know what an API is. But, for the sake of those who may not know, I’ll touch on the fundamentals a bit.
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By Irhose Apori
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