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Planning Your API Roadmap

Introduction

APIs — the current “big thing” — offer the opportunity for modern organizations to unlock new and lucrative business models. The article below covers some tips on how to spin the API flywheel and leverage its possibilities.

In the API economy, a successful service can gain popularity and be utilized in ways unpredicted and often inconceivable by its original owners. The very flexible nature of the technology opens many doors, including business collaborations, reuse in third-party products, or even conquering hardware barriers by reaching a spectrum of devices.

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5 Factors to Consider Before Choosing an API Management Platform

The remarkable growth of the API (Application Programming Interface) economy has resulted in a corresponding rise in the need for API management platforms. 

These solutions assist in creating, implementing, monitoring, analyzing, securing, and managing APIs — throughout their entire lifecycle.

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User-Centric API Metrics vs Infrastructure Metrics: Choose the Right Analytics Architecture and Data Store

Looking to build an analytics system? This post covers storing time-based metrics vs user-centric metrics.

In just a few short years, data-driven teams went from not enough data to drowning in a sea of metrics. Every action, reaction, and result can now be tracked, processed, and analyzed. However, a key question we’ve received is which metrics are important and which analytics architecture and data store is best suited for a particular analytics requirement.

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API Management vs API Gateway: Where Does API Analytics and Monitoring Fit?

For the last few years, there has been an explosion of API-powered businesses. There are revenue-generating APIs, developer platforms, partner marketplaces, and even internal APIs powering single-page apps.

With this explosion, there has also been a large increase in API tooling to help these companies go to market with their API platforms as quickly as possible and out-innovate any competition. Much of this increase in tooling mirrors what we saw in the mobile era. However, with this explosion, there is now an increase in the number of tools and solutions to build and grow APIs and platforms.