API Governance in a Multi-Cloud World
As organizations continue to embrace digital transformation, many are adopting multi-cloud strategies to leverage the unique strengths and capabilities of different cloud platforms. This approach...
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‘Tis but a Scratch: Does TypeSpec Reignite the Specification Wars?
Everyone — especially people obsessed with SEO — loves a clickbait title (and, if you’re British, some Monty Python quotes). In this post, we are meeting that need by asking whether the emergence of...
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Gen AI, APIs, and the Future of Development
We’ve heard much hyperbole over artificial intelligence in recent years, with some claiming it will replace software developers wholly and others saying it’s just a fad. Whatever you believe to be true...
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Some Takeaways From Apidays NYC 2024
The API economy is evolving. We continue to see API use cases emerge across industries, from telecommunciations, to finance, retail, and elsewhere. In addition, new tools and tactics are being adopted...
View Article10 Best Geolocation APIs: A Comprehensive Review
In the digital age, pinpointing a user’s location has become critical to delivering personalized, location-centric services. From tailoring content to a user’s locale to providing location-based...
View Article10 Reasons Why APIs Are Pivotal to Modern Online Banking
APIs and online banking go hand in hand. Online banking APIs prevent developers from having to recreate the wheel whenever they start a new financial application. Not only is having to write...
View ArticleComparing Top AI Code Assistants: A Comprehensive Review
In the era of digital transformation, AI code assistants have emerged as a game-changer for developers around the globe. These tools leverage machine learning and natural language processing to...
View Article10 Search Engine Results Page (SERP) APIs
There’s a saying in the world of data: “Garbage in, garbage out.” Your projects and tools are only as good as the data that drives them. For programmatically finding quality information online, search...
View ArticlePrototype-First API Design
Discussions of API design approaches generally fall into two camps: code-first and design-first. Each has different tradeoffs, with design-first typically perceived as ideal but not always practical....
View ArticleHow The API Economy is Changing in 2024
The API economy is not just growing in 2024 — it’s transforming. As APIs become the backbone of digital interactions across industries, the way we develop, manage, and secure them is undergoing a...
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Why API Gateways Should Be Programmable
If you’re an API developer, there’s a high chance you like your tools to be programmable. Programmability is not just standard in HTTP API requests to popular SaaS tools — it’s also a core element of...
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3 Example OpenAPI Definitions
For many years, whenever anyone wanted to learn about APIs, they’d inevitably encounter the Petstore API. Created by Swagger, Petstore API serves as a fully working template so you can see an API in...
View ArticleThe Role of SERP APIs in Training Advanced AI Models
SERP APIs are critical solutions for data analysts, offering a direct gateway to the vast amount of ever-updating information online. These APIs are pivotal in training advanced machine-learning...
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Tips For Boosting Product Features With Generative AI
AI is playing a bigger role in software development, from AI-generated code through to AI tools that consume and execute APIs independently. And lately, generative AI has become increasingly embedded...
View Article5 AI Assistants for API Developers
At this point, we’re all aware of LLM-based coding assistants like GitHub Copilot or CodeWhisperer. But what about AI for API development? What tools are being developed to integrate large language...
View Article10 Optical Character Recognition (OCR) APIs
APIs are driving business workflows across the globe, enabling more efficient processes and reducing friction in the market. One place where APIs and machine learning have seen long-term interest is...
View ArticleUsing Backstage to Catalog Your APIs
In the world of platform engineering, there’s a growing excitement around the open-source tool Backstage. Developed initially as an internal tool at Spotify, Backstage has been donated to the Cloud...
View ArticleThe Benefits and Drawbacks of Adopting APIs.json
The UK has an arcane phrase about how today’s newspapers are tomorrow’s fish and chip wrappers. That phrase no longer rings true in our world of digital media and online news outlets (and if you live...
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Improving Documentation With An AI Chatbot
In the past, we’ve written plenty about creating good documentation. From creating support resources to improve developer experience through to tips for writing API documentation, it’s a practice we’re...
View ArticleWhat To Expect In OPA 1.0
Open Policy Agent (OPA) is a stalwart policy offering in the API space, beloved and used widely to set and enforce policies at scale. After much development, OPA 1.0 has been announced, and with this...
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