APIContext Editorial Team
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Research, product, and field notes from the APIContext team on API reliability, conformance, and operational visibility.
Articles by APIContext Editorial Team
- Announcements
Stay Ahead with Our New Feature: Uptime Monitoring for Your Crucial APIs
If you want a quick way to check the APIs you care most about, our newest addition to APImetrics is for you, Uptime Monitoring . This will incrementally chec…
June 28, 2024 - Announcements
APIContext Wins 2024 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award
APIContext is proud to announce that we have won the 2024 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award . Given to companies that focus on transforming the digital landsc…
June 5, 2024 - Opinion
Are We Ready to Move from APIs as Products to APIs as Utilities?
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) have become more than just connections in a world where digital transformation sets the pace for company innovation…
April 2, 2024 - Fintech
Unlocking the Full Potential of US Open Banking: How APIContext Champions Interoperability
In the ever-evolving landscape of digital transformation, interoperability stands as a cornerstone. It enables seamless communication across diverse systems …
March 26, 2024 Cloudflare, Okta, and API Vulnerabilities
In the evolving landscape of digital security, the recent incident involving Cloudflare and Okta serves as a poignant reminder of the vulnerabilities inheren…
February 8, 2024The Week in API Metrics - Winners & Losers
If you don't know your API metrics then you don't know what your users are experiencing. Let's look at this week's winners and losers and where they fell on …
December 13, 2023- Cloud
Measure API Latency with APImetrics
APIs are the backbone of many of today’s businesses, powering everything from web applications to mobile services. The performance of these APIs – and especi…
November 30, 2023 Weekly "No Energy" API Performance Report
In a frankly stunning turn of events in the course of our API performance reporting, the Department of Energy experienced NO ERRORS LAST WEEK! We couldn't be…
November 29, 2023Movers & Shakers: This Week's API Performance Report
We've got some interesting data in our API performance report this week, so without further ado, let's get into it. Top Drops in API Performance Box in the C…
November 15, 2023- News
Navigating the CFPB's Latest Rulemaking on Personal Financial Data Rights: Lessons from Open Banking and Beyond
Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released draft rules on Personal Financial Data Rights, a document that is set to reshape the land…
October 26, 2023 - Fintech
An Overview of the New CFPB Draft Rules for Personal Financial Data Rights
Last week, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released their open banking draft rules. These rules outline new requirements for banks, credit un…
October 25, 2023 Traditional API Security Approaches are a Bulwark - But Companies Need a Comprehensive Strategy for Additional Defenses
<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">The digital sphere heavily depends on APIs as core components of applications and services. The frequent modificati…
October 23, 2023- News
Navigating Data Bridge Headwinds: How Contxt and APImetrics Equip UK Companies for API Security
The Data Bridge between the UK and the US brings both opportunities and challenges, especially in API security and data classification. In our previous blog …
October 18, 2023 - Opinion
The Urgent Need for Stronger Data Classification in API Documentation
In the wake of the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, commonly known as the Data Bridge, it's more crucial than ever for UK companies to rigor…
October 16, 2023 Why Blockchain Companies with Centralized Infrastructure Must Reconsider Their API Posture
<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">OpenSea's security breach highlighted vulnerabilities in centralized components, like APIs, within blockchain compa…
October 12, 2023This Week's API Performance Highlights
Largest drops in API performance Auth0 in the Corporate Infrastructure collection dropped 9 places. This was due to a general rise in server processing time …
October 4, 2023API Performance Highlights
For this week's API performance highlights we're going to talk about Barclays, some Fintech, and of course, the Department of Energy. Let's get into it. In o…
September 27, 2023- Opinion
Unlocking the Unmet Potential of Open Banking
Last week, I had the privilege of attending a panel discussion hosted by Natwest, focusing on the unmet potential of Open Banking . The panel featured indust…
September 26, 2023 API Performance Highlights
This week, we start off our API performance highlights reel with something that's been stumping us here at the office: Bank of Ireland UK . Bank of Ireland, …
September 20, 2023- News
APIContext to Acquire APImetrics, Creating a Powerhouse in API Governance, Security and Performance
APImetrics Inc , a pioneer in API monitoring, and Contxt Ltd , a leader in API privacy and security, announced today that they have agreed to merge, bringing…
September 14, 2023 - News
Why APIs Are Eating The World (Wide Web)
From David O'Neill, CEO & Founder, APIMetrics; and Mayur Upadhyaya, CEO & Cofounder, Contxt: According to Akamai , 83% of internet traffic now compri…
September 14, 2023 API Performance Highlights: Back to the Grind
We don't know how else to tell you that API performance is everything. But just the same, here's a stat that will blow your mind: $92 billion is lost each ye…
September 6, 2023Why You Need to Think of APIs as Products
In today's interconnected world, APIs are critical enablers for digital transformation. They’re conduits for data flow between disparate services. And with t…
August 31, 2023API Performance Highlights: Shout-out to Dept of Energy!
Let's take a look at this week's API performance highlights. Box in the Corporate Infrastructure collection decreased by 10% from 9.62 (in the Green Zone) to…
August 30, 2023- Press Releases
PRESS RELEASE: Over $90 Billion Lost Each Year to Poor API Performance
SEATTLE, August 29, 2023 – APImetrics, the industry authority on API quality, governance, and performance, announced today that poor API performance is costi…
August 29, 2023 API Performance Highlights
We begin this week's API performance highlights with Unit. Unit’s API performance is generally fast and reliable, with low latency and minimal downtime. Howe…
August 16, 2023- News
India Digital Data Privacy Bill: From Vulnerabilities to Cybersecurity Resilience
The recent buzz around the India Digital Data Privacy Bill and Australia's cybersecurity laws shines a spotlight on the critical need for robust data protect…
August 15, 2023 API Performance Highlights: API Sandboxes Are Important
When it comes to API performance in Open Banking, many participating banks don't spend a lot of time, money or energy monitoring the sandbox environment. And…
August 2, 2023Your Weekly API Performance Highlights
API performance is, to put not too fine a point on it, everything. The whole world runs on APIs. If your APIs are slow, or non-functioning, or error-prone, t…
July 27, 2023API Performance: When Every Millisecond Counts
Admittedly, it was a slow week in terms of API performance problems. Things are mostly working as they should, with the exceptions below among others. But th…
July 20, 2023API Lifecycle
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July 13, 2023- News
APImetrics Releases Largest Ever Cloud API Performance Report
Seattle – July 12 – APImetrics, the industry authority on API quality and performance, released the 2022 Cloud API Performance Report , the company announced…
July 13, 2023 - News
APImetrics and Contxt Partner to Protect & Secure APIs
Seattle, WA — July 5, 2023 — APImetrics and Contxt today announced a partnership to help enterprises gain continuous visibility, security, and assurance for …
July 5, 2023 API Performance Weekly Highlights: Summer Woes
It may be summer, but API performance observation, verification and governance never takes a break - and neither do we here at APImetrics. Let's take a look …
June 29, 2023API Performance: Your Weekly Report
This week in API performance, UK Open Banking took some hits. And whaddaya know, the Department of Energy is still doing badly. Let's get into it. First up, …
June 15, 2023API Performance: Weekly Highlights
Guys, you're never gonna believe it - the Department of Energy and the Department of Commerce are still down in the API performance dumps. We've got some oth…
June 7, 20237 API Factors That Could Ruin Your Performance
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June 6, 2023- Fintech
API Performance Highlights: Fintech, Government and More
Another week, another government agency whose API performance chart looks like a child's Christmas drawing. There are other usual suspects, plus a first-time…
May 31, 2023 API Performance: Movers & Shakers, Winners & Losers
Our API performance highlights, this week and every week, come from our world-renowned APImetrics API Directory . There you'll find the month's top performer…
May 24, 2023- Opinion
API Product Management: Beyond API Endpoints to API Products
API Product Management is a fairly nascent discipline. Just a few years ago, the industry thought of APIs as technical endpoints, so these endpoints are buil…
May 18, 2023 Top Drops: Weekly API Performance Report
Step right up and get your latest API performance highlights! And you'll never believe - the U.S. Government's APIs are still broken! Up first we have a comp…
May 17, 2023April API Performance Report: Movers and Shakers
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May 10, 2023Weekly API Performance Report
This week, we're looking at the API performance foibles of RingCentral, OBIE, Yorkshire Building Society, the Department of Commerce, and the Department of E…
May 10, 2023What is the API Supply Chain? (And why does it matter?)
The term "API Supply Chain" was coined by John Musser to describe the complex web of interconnected technologies that work in tandem to ensure that APIs perf…
May 2, 2023Exciting news! April is all about workflows.
Just a brief check-in to let you know what we’ve been up to recently. 2022 was all about API calls. 2023 is all about API workflows. As our user base grows b…
April 18, 2023- Fintech
API Movers and Shakers: Your Weekly API Performance Report
Spring has sprung! And our weekly API performance report is here. For our new readers, hello! This report is culled from our API.expert data and from that in…
March 23, 2023 API Movers and Shakers: Your Weekly API Performance Report
Once again, U.S. Government APIs are not doing so well. FEMA in the US Government Collection was in the Red Zone with a CASC score of 5.72. This was primaril…
March 14, 2023How API Monitoring Improves Customer Experience & Satisfaction
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March 4, 2023Are you ready to begin leveraging APIs
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March 3, 2023API Security Tips
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March 1, 2023Weekly API Performance Report: Movers and Shakers
Here are our highlights for the week in APIs. We tell you who's up, who's down, and who dropped out completely. Are the APIs you depend on included? If not, …
March 1, 2023- Government
U.S. Government APIs: Issues, Analysis, & Recommendations
In 2022, we monitored 15 APIs in the US Governments collection. Of these, 14 had a CASC score in the Green Zone, of which 4 had a CASC score of 9.00 or more.…
February 27, 2023 What Security Leaders Expect from APImetrics
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February 24, 2023API Movers and Shakers: Your Weekly API Performance Report
Welcome back to our weekly API performance report. It's almost spring, hang in there. APImetrics is the best in the business when it comes to API Observation…
February 23, 2023API Movers and Shakers: Your Weekly API Performance Report
Welcome back to our weekly API performance report. And Happy Valentine's Day! WLYSM. Each week, APImetrics analyzes recent API performance trends and identif…
February 14, 2023APIs For Businesses
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February 12, 2023- Government
API Movers and Shakers: Your Weekly API Performance Report
Welcome back to our weekly API performance report. Each week at APImetrics, we take a look at recent API performance trends and let you know who are the move…
February 8, 2023 6 Guidelines for building and using APIs
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February 2, 2023All You Need To Know About API
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February 1, 2023What Do APIs Do For You?
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January 27, 2023APIs How They Help Businesses
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January 26, 2023- Enterprise IT
API Issues: Microsoft Outage January 25 2023
There was a widely reported outage with Microsoft services on January 25. But like with most API powered service issues, the reporting, the provider reportin…
January 26, 2023 - Media
12 Free Tools for API Design, Development, and Testing
The rise of RESTful APIs has been met by a rise in tools for creating, testing, and managing them. Whether you’re a newbie building your first API, or an exp…
January 23, 2023 - News
Did Twitter kill third-party clients? Twitter API tells the story.
According to TechCrunch , Twitter API is coming into a probable cause of glitches being experienced by users of third-party apps. Users of Tweetbot, Echofon …
January 19, 2023 Top 3 Features You Need In An API Monitoring Service
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January 16, 20236 Benefits of API Monitoring
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January 10, 2023What is the right API for you
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January 4, 2023APIs are growing faster than developers can handle
<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">APIs are growing so fast, they are now more than half of most development efforts. But developer skills are not kee…
October 19, 2022Brute Force Attacks and APIs - Watch Those Logs!
<p class="" style="white-space:pre-wrap;">All developers have heard of a brute force attack, and maybe even tested it out themselves. However, just like how …
September 13, 2022Best practices for API monitoring
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January 7, 2022- News
APImetrics CEO David O'Neill at Apidays [VIDEO]
Our CEO David O'Neill spoke at Apidays Paris last year about the issues and need for agreed and measurable standards for regulated industries. In case you mi…
February 8, 2021 Effectively Securing and Scaling API Infrastructures
Join our CEO, David O'Neill, for a webinar hosted by Ping Identity on the challenges of scaling and securing API solutions. Date/Time: February 27th @ 11AM M…
February 6, 2019