Paul Cray
Co-Founder
Paul co-founded APIContext (formerly APImetrics), building the synthetic monitoring and conformance testing platform from its earliest days.
Articles by Paul Cray
- Cloud
The Clouds Are Not Flat: Key Takeaways from the APIContext 2024 Cloud Service Provider API Quality Report
by: Paul M. Cray In the API age, every millisecond counts. Understanding cloud performance is vital for businesses because the cloud powers mission-critical …
April 25, 2024 - News
OpenAI Outage, ChatGPT Down: APImetrics Tells the Story
The OpenAI Create Chat Completion endpoint suffered a nearly complete outage for nearly two hours on Wednesday, 8 November 2023. APImetrics makes two schedul…
November 9, 2023 - Government
Weekly API Performance Report: Cisco, Dept of Energy
At APImetrics, we take a weekly look at the API performance of the world's top APIs. This week, we're going to highlight a few of the big movers and shakers.…
April 26, 2023 - Government
Weekly API Performance Report: Failure Modes
API performance can be a tricky thing, but it's not a mystery. Or, at least it doesn't have to be. And that's where the APImetrics CASC score comes to the re…
April 11, 2023 APImetrics Monthly API Performance Report: March
Every week at APImetrics, we take stock of the movers and shakers, winners and losers of API performance in the industry's biggest categories - Fintech, Open…
April 5, 2023- Government
API Movers and Shakers, March Madness Edition: Your Weekly API Performance Report
API performance went slightly haywire this week in the Open Banking and the US Government categories. Buckle up, it's gonna be a bumpy report! Open Banking A…
March 28, 2023 - Fintech
What's Up With the Decrease in Tink CASC Score?
Most of the Tink endpoints show a sharp rise in overall latency, beginning on about 27 November. We then get a further sharp rise from about 6 December, whic…
December 8, 2022 - Opinion
The new RSS is... RSS
Some of us are old enough to remember when RSS (and Atom) were Big Things. Whatever happened to RSS, or syndication, or feeds, or whatever we want to call it…
November 17, 2022 - Opinion
p(50) Considered Useful
Why are we told to ignore the p(50) and concentrate on the p(99)? The obvious reason is that if the p(99) is fine, the p(50) will be fine. If we consider a p…
October 19, 2022 - Opinion
Will the Noosphere have an API? The 15th Artificial General Intelligence Conference suggests it will.
Ben Goertzel has been running the annual Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) conference since 2008, and the 15 th edition was back in person this year. It …
September 6, 2022 API.expert Banking API Analysis: Tide APIs Are Near-Perfect
This Week’s Banking API Highlights Tide in the Open Banking API – UK – Production category takes the overall title again this week with a CASC score of 9.84,…
May 15, 2021API.expert Weekly API Analysis: MailChimp
This Week’s API Highlights Google in the Social Networks API category and Department of Justice in the US Government category share the overall title this we…
May 13, 2021API.expert Banking API Analysis: Open Banking, Open Data
This Week’s Banking API Highlights Tide in the Open Banking API – UK – Production category takes the overall title again this week with a CASC score of 9.83,…
May 6, 2021API.expert Weekly API Analysis: Twitter Tops Social
This Week’s Highlights Twitter in the Social Networks category takes the overall title this week with a CASC score of 9.77. UK in the UK Government is the fa…
May 4, 2021API.expert Weekly API Analysis: Microsoft Bing
This Week’s API Highlights Department of Justice in the US Government API category takes the overall title this week with a CASC score of 9.81. Department of…
April 30, 2021API.expert Weekly Banking API Analysis: Coinbase
This Week’s Banking API Highlights Tide in the Open Banking API – UK – Production category takes the overall title again this week with a CASC score of 9.84,…
April 30, 2021API.expert Weekly API Analysis: Twitter OAuth
This Week’s API Highlights Google in the Social Networks API category takes the overall title this week with a CASC score of 9.68. Department of Justice in t…
April 23, 2021API.expert Weekly Banking API Analysis: Perfect Railsbank
This Week’s Banking API Highlights Tide in the Open Banking API – UK – Production category takes the overall title again this week with a CASC score of 9.85,…
April 23, 2021API.expert Weekly API Analysis: Hey Foursquare!
This Week’s API Highlights Twitter in the Social Networks API category takes the overall title this week with a CASC score of 9.74. Department of Justice in …
April 14, 2021API.expert Monthly API Analysis: March | Search APIs
This Month’s API Highlights UK in the UK Government API category takes the overall top spot for the public sector again with a CASC score of 9.77, down from …
April 12, 2021API.expert Weekly API Analysis: Google Workplace APIs
This Week’s Highlights UK in the UK Government category takes the overall title this week with a CASC score of 9.76, the same as last week. Department of Jus…
April 8, 2021- Fintech
API.expert Monthly Banking API Analysis: March | Cluster of Failures
This Month’s Banking API Highlights Bank of Ireland in the Open Banking API – UK – Open Data category takes the overall title this month with a CASC score of…
April 8, 2021 API.expert Weekly Banking API Analysis: UK Production
This Week’s Highlights Tide in the Open Banking API – UK – Production category takes the overall title this week with a CASC score of 9.86. HSBC in the Open …
April 7, 2021API.expert Weekly Banking API Analysis: HitBTC Crypto
This Week’s Banking API Highlights Tide in the Open Banking API – UK – Production category, which was overall first last week with a CASC score of 9.84, this…
April 2, 2021Weekly API Analysis: Now With Duck Duck Go!
This Week’s API Highlights UK in the UK Government API category takes the overall title again this week with a CASC score of 9.76 down from 9.86 last week. D…
April 1, 2021API.expert Weekly API Analysis: Expanding Search APIs
This Week’s Highlights GOV.UK in the UK Government category takes the overall title this week (after sharing it last week) with a CASC score of 9.86, the sam…
March 26, 2021API.expert Weekly Banking API Analysis: Railsbank Is Tops
This Week’s Banking API Highlights Tide in the Open Banking API – UK – Production category takes the overall title again this week with a CASC score of 9.84,…
March 25, 2021API.expert Weekly API Analysis: Messaging APIs
This Week’s API Highlights GOV.UK in the UK Government category and Department of Justice in the US Government category share the honors for the overall titl…
March 18, 2021API.expert Weekly Banking API Analysis: Lloyds Group APIs
This Week’s Banking API Highlights Tide in the Open Banking API – UK – Production category takes the overall title this week with a CASC score of 9.82. HSBC …
March 17, 2021API.expert Monthly Banking API Analysis: February 2021
This Month’s Banking API Highlights Royal Bank of Scotland (Sandbox) in the Open Banking API – UK – Sandbox category takes the overall title this month with …
March 10, 2021API.expert Monthly API Analysis: February 2021
API Analysis Highlights: February GOV.UK in the UK Government category takes the overall top spot for the public sector again with a CASC score of 9.85, up f…
March 9, 2021Banking APIs Weekly Analysis: The Fastest APIs
HSBC again is the fastest Banking API even as it languishes in the Amber Zone. The next five fastest Banking APIs are all NatWest Group brands, but Royal Ban…
March 5, 2021API Analysis: Google and Microsoft Bing
This Week’s API Analysis Highlights GOV.UK in the UK Government category takes the overall title again this week with a CASC score of 9.85, down from 9.86 la…
March 4, 2021API Metrics Weekly Report: GitHub vs. Microsoft Office
GitHub is a perennially performant API, which this week again tops the Corporate Infrastructure API metrics. Usually, though Microsoft Office is the fastest …
February 18, 2021API Metrics: Feb 2–9 | GitHub & Pager Duty
Something of interest in this week's API metrics Corporate Infrastructure is a pretty competitive API metrics category, with all APIs in the Green Zone and 9…
February 12, 2021Fintech API Metrics Weekly Report: Royal Bank of Scotland Wins!
Something of interest The Open Banking – UK – Production Fintech API metrics category is a big category. But let’s look at the Top Ten, but by outliers, not …
February 11, 2021API Metrics Fintech, Jan 25–Feb 1: Open Banking UK Production
Something of interest In Open Banking – UK – Production API metrics category, Nationwide has a degree of middle table respectability coming in at 19 out of 4…
February 5, 2021API Metrics: Jan 25–Feb 1 | Google Oceania
Something of interest Social Networks is a pretty competitive category for API metrics, which is not surprising given the centrality of social networks in co…
February 4, 2021API Ratings: Jan 18–25 | Messaging APIs
Something of interest Here’s something you don’t see every day – in fact, I don’t recall having seen it over the last year that we’ve been doing these API.ex…
January 29, 2021Fintech API Ratings Jan 18–25: API Sandbox
Want to know about API performance? API.expert is on the case. We look at over 100 fintech APIs and pull all the metrics together to give you a general feeli…
January 28, 2021APIs 2020 Report: Corporate Infrastructure
In 2020, we launched API.expert. This allows you to see at a glance how many of the leading APIs have been performing each week and month compared to their p…
January 27, 2021API Ratings: Jan 11–18 | Twitter and Facebook
So. January 2021. Anything interesting happen this month? YIKES. Well, the internet keeps on chugging along, and so too do the APIs that keep it humming. And…
January 22, 2021Fintech API Ratings Jan 11-18: Cryptocurrency Exchanges
API Performance We are now hurtling through January and what a month it has been so far. But don’t fear, API.expert is still on the case with our weekly Fint…
January 22, 2021Fintech API Ratings Jan 4-11: Creation Cards
API Performance We can't believe it's still the first half of January 2021. But don’t fear, API.expert is still on the case with our weekly Fintech API ratin…
January 14, 2021API Ratings: Jan 5–12 | Messaging Latency
API Performance Yes, dear reader, it's still the first half of January 2021. But don’t fear, API.expert is still on the case with our weekly API ratings. For…
January 13, 2021Fintech API Ratings Dec 28–Jan 4: Cryptocurrency Exchanges
API Performance Happy New Year! We took a week off last week for the Christmas/New Year holiday, but now we are back at the grindstone with our weekly Fintec…
January 6, 2021API Ratings: Dec 28–Jan 4 | Social Networks
API Performance Happy New Year! We took a week off last week for the Christmas & New Year holiday, but now we are back at the grindstone. For our API rat…
January 5, 2021Fintech API Ratings Dec 7–14: Intuit Quickbooks
Something of interest Fintech is a pretty competitive category. Everyone has a CASC score over 8.50, which isn’t a bad effort at all. 6 out of the 10 APIs ha…
December 18, 2020API Ratings: Dec 7-14 | Pager Duty Outliers
API Ratings: Performance For our API ratings, we look at over 100 APIs and pull all the metrics together to give you a general feeling for the service qualit…
December 17, 2020- Fintech
Fintech API Ratings Summary: November 2020
Something of interest HSBC languishes at the bottom of the Open Banking – UK – Open Data category of Fintech APIs this month, as it so often does. The API ha…
December 16, 2020 API Ratings Summary November 2020 | Twitter Wins
API Ratings: Performance For our API ratings, we look at over 100 APIs and pull all the metrics together to give you a general feeling for the service qualit…
December 15, 2020Fintech API Ratings, Nov 30 - Dec 7
Something of interest In the Fintech API November monthly report, we discuss HSBC, which is perennially fast and perennially languishes towards or at the bot…
December 10, 2020API Ratings: Nov 30 - Dec 7 | The Year of Zoom
API Ratings: Performance For our API ratings, we look at over 100 APIs and pull all the metrics together to give you a general feeling for the service qualit…
December 9, 2020Fintech API Ratings, Nov 24-30: Cryptocurrency Exchange
Something of interest There is a lot of variation in performance in the Cryptocurrency Exchange categories. Seven of the 17 APIs manage CASC scores of over 9…
December 4, 2020API Ratings: Nov 24-30 | The Social Networks
API Ratings: Performance For our API ratings, we look at over 100 APIs and pull all the metrics together to give you a general feeling for the service qualit…
December 3, 2020API Ratings: Nov 17-24 | Active Monitoring is Good Monitoring
API Ratings: Performance For our API ratings, we look at over 100 APIs and pull all the metrics together to give you a general feeling for the service qualit…
November 25, 2020Fintech API Ratings, Nov 17-24: NatWest Dips
Something of Interest NatWest Groups' two sets of two Fintech APIs are usually pretty performant, but we have seen a definite dip in the performance of the n…
November 25, 2020Finance API Ratings, Nov 10-17: Open Banking Sandboxes
Something of interest Sandboxes for financial APIs are crucial and sometimes don’t get the respect they deserve. That’s partly because some banks have been k…
November 20, 2020API Ratings: Nov 10-17 | Foursquare Outage
API Performance We look at over 100 APIs and pull all the metrics together to give you the API ratings for an organization’s APIs in a particular category wi…
November 19, 2020Finance API Ratings, Nov 3–10: Fractal Labs & CMA9 Banks
But first, something of interest In collaboration with our partners at Fractal Labs, we have completed our quest to get up and running with monitoring all ni…
November 12, 2020API Ratings: Nov 3–10 | Microsoft Office
We look at over 100 APIs and pull all the metrics together to give you a general feeling for the service quality by way of API ratings in a particular catego…
November 11, 2020Finance API Ratings, Oct 26–Nov 3: Open Banking
We have now split out Open banking and other financial APIs we rate into separate weekly and monthly reports. This allows us to give you a more focused view …
November 5, 2020API Ratings: Oct 26–Nov 3 | Facebook Falls Back
We have now plunged screaming into November and the election from hell. But, to cheer us up, we're going to look at API ratings for the last week! We launche…
November 4, 2020- Government
APIs and the U.S. 2020 Election
The big 2020 election in the USA is ending today! And even though not all of us are in the U.S., there’s a lot of interest all round the world. When the resu…
November 3, 2020 API Ratings: Oct 19-26 | Foursquare Takes the Title
October has come and gone, and the clocks are falling back around the world. Let's talk about API ratings over the last seven days. But before we do, a quick…
October 28, 2020Finance API Ratings, Oct 19-26: Railsbank has a bad week
We’ve recently split out the finance APIs into a separate weekly and monthly report. This allows us to give you a more focused view on the different classes …
October 27, 2020Financial API Ratings: Oct 12–19 | Oh Coinlore!
We’ve now split out financial API ratings and the non-financial API ratings into separate weekly and monthly reports. This allows us to give you a more focus…
October 22, 2020API Ratings: Oct 12 – 19 | #Twitter Outage
We are crawling our way through this unending October and that time of the week has already arrived again for us to look at some key API ratings over the pas…
October 21, 2020Monthly Financial API Ratings, Sept 2020
So, September was apparently only a month long - sounds fake, but OK - and we're ready to give you the monthly financial API ratings. We’ve now split out fin…
October 16, 2020Monthly API Ratings, Sept 2020: Bing is King?
The time has come for us to check out the monthly API ratings, this time for September 2020. We recently launched API.expert as a simple way to provide every…
October 15, 2020Financial API Ratings: Oct 5–12 | Railsbank is Speedy
We’ve now split out financial API ratings and the non-financial API ratings into separate weekly and monthly reports. This allows us to give you a more focus…
October 14, 2020API Ratings: Oct 5–12 | Flickr is Struggling
We are now almost halfway through October and that time of the week has already arrived again for us to look at some key API ratings over the past seven days…
October 13, 2020API Ratings: Sept 28–Oct 5, 2020 | Fast Facebook
We have somehow managed to find ourselves already well into October, and that time of the week has already arrived again for us to look at some key API ratin…
October 6, 2020API Ratings | Sept 21-28, 2020: Halifax is Super Slow
September has just flown right on by, and that time of the week has already arrived again for us to look at some key API ratings over the past seven days. We…
October 2, 2020API Ratings | Sept 14-21, 2020: Playing in Sandboxes
We are now in the final third of September(!) and that time of the week has already arrived again for us to look at some key API ratings over the past seven …
September 25, 2020API Ratings | Sept 7-14, 2020: DocuSign Plunges
How did we already arrive at the middle of September?! Let's take a look at some key API ratings over the past seven days. We recently launched API.expert as…
September 18, 2020API Ratings | Aug 31 - Sept 7, 2020: Oh, behave!
We are now striding boldly into September, and it's time for another weekly roundup of our API ratings. We recently launched API.expert as a simple way to pr…
September 11, 2020API Ratings | August, 2020: Etsy, why so slow?
The time has arrived when we disclose our API ratings for August 2020. We recently launched API.expert as a simple way to provide everybody with insights int…
September 9, 2020API Ratings August 24-31, 2020: New Structure
The time of the week has once more rolled round for us to check on API ratings over the past seven days. Can you believe the year is two-thirds over?! We lau…
September 2, 2020API Ratings August 17-24, 2020: Cisco Spark
The time of the week has once more come around for API ratings from the last 7 days! We now find ourselves heading towards the end of August and we are exper…
September 1, 2020API Ratings August 10-17, 2020: Poor Old Federal Communications Commission
The time of the week has once more come round for API ratings over the past seven days. We now find ourselves into the second half of August and temperatures…
August 19, 2020API Ratings August 3-10, 2020: Another volatile week!
That time of the week has already arrived again for us to hand out our API ratings winners and losers over the past seven days. We launched API.expert earlie…
August 11, 2020API Ratings, July 2020: What exactly happened on July 28?
We have staggered further into the second half of the year and another API ratings report for the month of July 2020. We recently launched API.expert as a si…
August 10, 2020API Ratings: July 27-August 3, 2020
We now find ourselves already arrived in August – and that time to report on API ratings over the past seven days. We launched API.expert earlier in the year…
August 5, 2020API Ratings: 20-27 July, 2020 - Bank of Ireland, OUCH!
We are almost at the end of July and there are less than 5 months to go to Christmas! Still, that time of the week has arrived for us to discourse on the Sta…
July 30, 2020API Ratings: 6 July - 13 July 2020
API.expert API Ratings We are already into the middle of July and the nights are starting to draw in. That time of the week has again arrived for us to talk …
July 17, 2020API Ratings: Who Won the Month? June 2020
API.expert June 2020 Wrap Up We have stumbled out of the first half of the year(!) and into another month of the COVID-19 crisis. And that time has arrived w…
July 16, 2020API Ratings | June 15-22, 2020
API Rankings from API.expert We have somehow come to the fourth week of June (and still one to go) and reached that time when we must discourse on the State …
June 25, 2020API Ratings: Who won the week? | June 8-15, 2020
We have somehow come to the third week of June and reached that point at which we must once again expound on API rankings over the last seven days. We launch…
June 17, 2020API Ratings: Who won the week? | June 1-8, 2020
We find ourselves already in the second week of June (!) and the time once again has arrived at discourse on the State of the APIs over the last seven days. …
June 11, 2020Monthly API Ratings | May 2020
We have tumbled out of May and into yet another month of the COVID-19 crisis as well as some other issues on top too. And that time of the month has arrived …
June 5, 2020API Ratings: Who won the week? | May 11-18, 2020
We find ourselves, hard though it is to believe, already in the second half of May and again the time has already arrived at discourse the State of the APIs …
May 19, 2020API Ratings: Who won the week? | May 4-11, 2020
We find ourselves somehow already in the middle of May and again the time has arrived to discourse the State of the APIs over the last seven days. W e recent…
May 14, 2020API Ratings: Who won the week? | April 27 - May 4, 2020
We have found ourselves somehow in May and again we find the time has arrived to talk of many things, but particularly in our case, the State of the APIs ove…
May 8, 2020Monthly API Ratings | April 2020
We have lurched out of April and into yet another month of the COVID-19 crisis (we are going to be in that for a good while yet). And that time has arrived w…
May 4, 2020- News
API Ratings: Who won the week? | April 20-27, 2020
We have already passed the last full week of April (and seemingly back into winter today here in the UK!) and once more the time has come to talk of many thi…
April 30, 2020 API Ratings: Who won the week? | April 13-20, 2020
Hard to believe, but we are in the last third of April, even if all the days seem the same in this age of COVID-19 and , as sure as the Sun rises in the East…
April 22, 2020- Feature Updates
Introduction to 'Projects' and a New Sign In Service
We’re about to make the most significant changes to the product since the first version came out five years ago. We're really excited about the improvements …
April 22, 2020 API Ratings: Who won the week? | April 6-13, 2020
We are already into the middle of April and that time of the week has arrived once when we must discourse on the State of the APIs over the last seven days. …
April 15, 2020Monthly API Ratings | March 2020
We have finally staggered out of March and into another month of the COVID-19 crisis. And that time of the week and month has come when we must discourse of …
April 10, 2020API Ratings: Who won the week? | March 30 - April 6, 2020
We have finally staggered out of March and into another month of the COVID-19 crisis. And that time of the week and has come when we discuss the State of the…
April 8, 2020- News
API Ratings: Who won the week? | March 23-30, 2020
April is here (and sadly COVID-19 is likely to still be here for several months to come), so we gather together again to discuss the State of the APIs. W e r…
April 1, 2020 - News
APIs in a Time of the COVID-19 Crisis
As the COVID-19 pandemic has so painfully demonstrated over the last few weeks, we live in a connected world. That has been true for centuries. The Black Dea…
March 31, 2020 API Ratings: Who won the week? | March 16-23, 2020
We have now passed the spring equinox (in the Northern hemisphere anyway) (and sadly are still in the Age of COVID-19 everywhere) and once more that time of …
March 26, 2020API Ratings: Who won the week? | March 9-16, 2020
W e are now well into March (and sadly the t ime of COVID-19) and once again it is time to talk of the State of the APIs. W e recently la unched API.expert a…
March 18, 2020API Ratings: Who won the week? | March 2-9, 2020
W e are now well into March – and that time of the week when it is our duty to discourse on the State of the APIs. W e recently la unched API.expert as a sim…
March 11, 2020API Ratings: Who won the week? | Feb 24 – Mar 4, 2020
W e have entered March like a lion and point of the week when it is time to talk of the State of the APIs has rolled into view once more , not just over the …
March 5, 2020API Ratings: Who won the week? | February 10-17, 2020
W e are now more than halfway through February and it’s time once more to look at t he State of the APIs over the past week. W e recently la unched API.exper…
February 19, 2020API Ratings: Who won the week? | February 3-10, 2020
We are already well into February! And the moment of the week where we consider the State of the APIs over the last seven days is upon us. W e recently la un…
February 12, 2020API Ratings | January through February 3, 2020
As we stagger out of the first month o f the 2020s, the time has come for us to inform you about the State of the APIs, not just in the last week, but over t…
February 10, 2020- Opinion
Monitoring APIs: Expect The Unexpected
When it comes to monitoring APIs, getting a 2xx back is not enough. You have to check that the returned payload is what is actually expected. So, if the expe…
November 12, 2018 - Opinion
Happy Birthday to Application Programming Interface (And Me!)
Merriam-Webster has created a "Time Traveler" tool to let people see what words entered the language in the year of their birth. It's interesting to discover…
October 29, 2018 - API Updates
Brought Low by a Humble Bug in the Google+ People API
I remember when Google+ was a thing. And then when it was a thing again. Both those periods were a long time ago. But it was still a shock to see that Google…
October 17, 2018 - API Updates
Top of the APIs: Which CMA9 Bank Was Summer Champion 2018?
The APImetrics Insights CASC (Cloud API Service Consistency) score lets you know the performance and quality of an API at a glance. It also lets you instantl…
October 17, 2018 Online Banking: The Dream of Being the Amazon (or Facebook or Netfix) of Money
There's a fascinating article over at Quartz about the battle in the online banking world to be the Amazon (or Facebook or Netfix) of money. Despite the titl…
October 8, 2018- Fintech
The Open Banking Revolution Will Be Delayed
Recently, there has been a spate of interesting articles on the state of open banking in the UK. And "state" appears to be the operative word. As an openbank…
July 6, 2018 - API Updates
Coming Soon to UK's Digital Marketplace and Microprocurement Platform
As I blogged a few weeks ago, one of the hottest trends right now in business and government is microprocurement . Always at the very front of any trend, we …
June 19, 2018 - API Updates
CMA9 APIs: The Only Constant Is The Lack Of Consistency
Following on from our thoughts on SLOs and KPIs , we teased that we had some more data on CMA9 APIs. And here it is! The approach we use is simple. We look a…
June 15, 2018 - Opinion
Watching The Connectors - SAP, Mulesoft, Cloud Elements, Oh My!
The SAP blog has a post on their new SAP Cloud Platform Open Connectors. Now, this idea is not new. In fact, I might even go as far as to suggest that great …
June 14, 2018 - Opinion
Think Before You cURL
I just want to reiterate something that I wrote a blog post about last April. When it comes to monitoring your APIs, it really isn't a good idea to rely on c…
June 13, 2018 - Fintech
AISP: It's All Kicking Off
You know the future has arrived when you see an advert for it for it on an obscure Sky satellite channel. In this case, what is kicking off is the availabili…
June 5, 2018 - Opinion
KPIs, SLOs and Other API TLAs
There's a fascinating article over at Medium by on API Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) by Michael Leppitsch, who works on Digital Strategies for Global Ent…
June 5, 2018 - API Updates
Microprocurement: Don't Nonitor. Monitor!
Our friend Kin Lane has an interesting article over at his essential API Evangelist site that includes a shout out for us. Kin discusses the trend in US gove…
June 5, 2018 Don't Trust That 200 OK! 200 OK Is Not Necessarily OK – At All
We've often made the point that 200 OK is not necessarily OK. But I don't think the point can be made enough: 200 OK is not necessarily OK – at all! Just bec…
April 9, 2018- Fintech
PSD2: National Governments and Bodies Have The Final Say
PSD2 is driven top-down by the European Commission and the European Banking Authority (EBA). But it is built bottom-up by the banks and other service provide…
April 9, 2018 APIContext + Your Passive Monitoring Stack
Your passive monitoring stack is vital in understanding how your applications, and the APIs on which the applications depend, are being used over time and ho…
March 30, 2018- API Updates
API Gateway and APImetrics: How We Integrate with Your Existing Systems
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March 19, 2018 - Fintech
Active Monitoring: Never Hesitate to Go Active
The transducers in the sonar for HMS Dreadnought , Britain's first nuclear submarine, were actually designed to ping all the way across the Atlantic and back…
March 14, 2018 - Fintech
PSD2 Active API Performance Monitoring: You Can't Do That From Here
API performance monitoring is part of managing, and here at APIContext our mantra is: You have to manage your APIs. And if you are relying purely on passive …
March 6, 2018 - Fintech
Open Banking APIs: Working Together To Make It Work
In reading up on Open Banking, we recently came across an interesting letter from Olivier Guersent, the European Commission's Director‑General for Financial …
March 2, 2018 - Fintech
Open Banking APIs Need PSD2 Monitoring – Now
Finextra's piece, " How Open Banking Will Blow Core Systems Out of the Water ," says that the three hottest TLAs in banking are APIs, PSD2 and DLT (Distribut…
February 27, 2018 - Cloud
Monitoring the Untestable - A White Paper from APIContext
APIContext has just published Monitoring the Untestable , a new white paper that focuses on the Catch-22* at the heart of PSD2 and open banking: if you don’t…
February 12, 2018 - Opinion
API Update Failure: Or, Beware Of The Leopard
One of the ongoing potential API update failures is handling situations that commonly happen whenever you have to update them. Updating an API is a perfectly…
January 30, 2018 - API Updates
The (Open Banking) Revolution Will Be Blogged.
BBC Business is a fairly obscure slot on the BBC's news channel, but the BBC News website is one of the leading news sites in the world and there was a story…
January 16, 2018 - API Updates
PSD2 Eve: Tomorrow It Goes Live. Are You Ready?
Happy PSD2 Eve! Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the time has come: It's going live throughout the European Single Market on Saturday, 13 January 2018. So, what ha…
January 12, 2018 - API Updates
The IRS and APIs: Can Your Tax Returns Be Accessed?
There's a fascinating article over at TechCrunch about the possibility of the IRS being mandated by Congress to expose an API. The IRS undoubtedly already ha…
January 3, 2018 - Opinion
Hot Fuzz: The Fuzzing Form of Negative Testing
The hot area du jour in testing is fuzzing . I hadn't heard of it until the other day, but the concept has been around since the days of punched cards. In th…
December 29, 2017 - Opinion
Testing! Testing! Testing! APIContext for Developers and Testers
Testing! Testing! Testing! APIContext for Developers and Testers Our friends at ProgrammableWeb have posted a fascinating series of articles on API testing b…
December 19, 2017 - Opinion
Going SLO: Service Level Agreements and Service Level Objectives
APIContext is a tool for monitoring the performance and quality of APIs. There are lots of good reasons why you should do that, but one particularly importan…
December 6, 2017 - Opinion
APIStrat: The API Strategy & Practice Conference 2017 Review
APIstrat was a blast, of course. Portland is like the smaller, quieter little sibling of Seattle. It even has a Pioneer Square and a three-dimensional model …
November 3, 2017 - Opinion
Artificial Intelligence: AGI, AI, API – and AIPI?
What do A(G)Is and APIs have in common? Well, neither of them mean quite what they used to mean. As we said in my previous post , AI originally meant AGI, wh…
August 22, 2017 Artificial Intelligence, AGIs and APIs: What are AGIs?
The term "artificial intelligence" was coined in 1955 by John McCarthy as the title of a workshop at Dartmouth College in 1956. But AI as we know had already…
August 17, 2017- Opinion
Never Mind the Quality: The Depth and Breadth of API Management
There's an interesting article over at SDTimes called " API management: The glue holding the app economy together ." Yep, they're right about that. If we thi…
July 12, 2017 API Monitoring: Getting The Measure Of It (But Not For The Sake Of Measurement)
In the context of API monitoring, your API management system might generate logs to help you learn about the behavior of your APIs. For instance, you might g…
July 3, 2017Your API Management System: Using The Wrong Tool Can Be Dangerous, Cost More, And Take Longer
IT is a function of your business, so you need to manage it. And IT is responsible for the APIs that your business increasingly relies on as vital components…
June 22, 2017Want To Monitor Internal APIs? It's As Easy as Raspberry Pi
Making calls to API endpoints from one of our 64 cloud locations on five continents isn't ideal – or even possible – for every API stakeholder. Many APIs are…
June 16, 2017What Are Your APIs Doing Right Now, In The Real World? API Integration And Management
One of the current hot topics in the API world is API integration. That's because more businesses use APIs to glue services together, whether provided by oth…
June 15, 2017- Enterprise IT
Leavin' On A Jet Plane (Or Not, If You Tried To Fly British Airways)
Were you hoping to be a passenger on a British Airways flight over the weekend? So were ten of thousands of other travelers. The sheer logistic disruption (p…
June 1, 2017 - Cloud
What is a Web API? APIContext Explains it All
"What is a web API?" At APIContext, we actually get this question a lot. And I found someone asking this question recently on Quora as well. I answered it th…
May 24, 2017 - Enterprise IT
API Changes: Making Sure Your Calls Work After The Switch
One of the things about APIs is that they're subject to change. API changes might be because the API endpoints and methods have been changed. In this case, a…
May 23, 2017 - Opinion
2030 Web Resources: Intelligent Knowledge Bases & Event Horizons?
In 2004, pretty much nobody was worrying about RESTful APIs . But we've seen an exponential increase in interest over the past 13 years. If that interest con…
May 22, 2017 - Fintech
Chase and Expensify: No, You Can't Expense It (For Now)
If you're a customer of Chase trying to upload your expenses using Expensify, take a breather. Go get a latte. On the afternoon of May 18 (PDT), visitors to …
May 19, 2017 - Opinion
4 Big API Questions that Every API Stakeholder Needs to Answer
Generally speaking, there are four big API questions that every API stakeholder needs to answer: Discovery: How do I know there’s an API? Documentation: What…
May 16, 2017 Everything You Need to Know About the APIContext CASC Score
One of the things about APIs is that they're complicated. There's a lot of things that can and do wrong. So there are many metrics that we measure for each A…
April 21, 2017- Opinion
Our Global API Economy: The Importance of API Metrics
We are living in an API economy. Organizations of every kind depend on APIs to exchange mission-critical, time-sensitive data and information with customers,…
April 18, 2017 - Government
Census Data #API is Down
The US Census Bureau tweeted this about their API on the morning of Apr 6, 2017. They even sent us an email: We are currently experiencing an extended interr…
April 7, 2017 - Opinion
"No problem. We'll write a cURL script to do that"
Does this story sound familiar? Marketing's having an issue with a mission-critical API. DevOps says there is no issue. After much research, Marketing was ri…
April 5, 2017 - Opinion
That 3AM Call
It's 3 a.m. You're dead asleep. The phone rings. You blunder around trying to locate your phone. Oh thank God - it's work! Only work. No one is dead. It's th…
March 30, 2017 - Cloud
Your APIs are Only as Good as the APIs They Depend On
On February 28, it seemed like half the internet went down. The Amazon AWS S3 cloud storage system in northern Virginia suffered an outage that lasted more t…
March 22, 2017 - Automotive
Tesla's API outage is a lesson for everybody in today's hyper-connected world
Forty years ago, the average car barely had a transistor in it. But a car in 2017 is basically a bunch of incredibly sophisticated software riding around on …
March 15, 2017 - Opinion
The Internet is Coming for your Things
The Internet of Things (IoT) has gone from a “buzzword” term, to a potential multi trillion dollar industry. No longer is the idea of a “smart home” or conne…
August 6, 2015 - Feature Updates
Tracking API Calls with APImetrics
Using APIContext to provide easy to track calls. We already provide logs of all API calls that include a detailed time stamp so you can find a specific item.…
July 29, 2015 - Opinion
API Documentation Needs Love too
At APIContext, we mainly deal in the analytics of APIs and the corresponding infrastructure that supports them. These traits are easily quantifiable and the …
July 22, 2015 Video Walkthrough - Advanced API Calls
July 15, 2015Video Walkthrough - API Authentication
July 15, 2015Video Walkthrough - APImetrics Basic Setup
July 15, 2015Video Walkthrough - Feature Overview
July 15, 2015Video Walkthrough - Setting up API Workflows
July 15, 2015Video Walkthrough - Setting up Reports
July 15, 2015Self-Regulation and Why Third-Party Monitoring Matters
Who Watches the Watchmen Self-Regulation, although sometimes viewed in a negative light, is actually a key cog in today’s global economy. It has helped a wid…
July 10, 2015API Health Report #1
The Impact of Cloud Service Provider on API Performance If you would like to download the full report for free, click HERE ! When creating a mobile applicati…
July 8, 2015APIContext Integrates with New Relic Insights
You can now integrate our API Performance Monitoring with New Relic Insights . This new feature will give you the ability to connect the stream of API data c…
July 2, 2015Updated UI for Report Editor, Workflows, and Deployments
Reports: Workflows: Deployments:
July 2, 2015APIContext Takes Silver for Startup of the Year!
APIContext took Silver in the Startup of the Year category at last night's Network Product Guide's 10th Annual 2015 IT World Awards! Take a look at the full …
June 30, 2015APIContext Named a Startup of the Year Finalist
APIContext Named a Startup of the Year Finalist in the 2015 IT World Awards® by Network Product Guides Today we are happy to announce that Network Products G…
June 1, 2015We Have a New Website!
It has been a long rough road, but we are excited to announce the release of our new website! With our goal being to get rid of the headaches that surround A…
May 20, 2015- Opinion
API Performance Monitoring for the API Economy
The API Economy is growing fast. There is little doubt about that. There are now over 13,000 APIs listed on ProgrammableWeb, With the Private to Public API r…
May 18, 2015 - News
API News Rundown 5.11.15
A weekly rundown of all things API! At APIContext, we love APIs and everything that makes the API Ecosystem what it is. Keep up to date, learn of new tech, o…
May 11, 2015 - Feature Updates
A Featurette on our Features
We are always striving to make our tool better, and with that comes updates to features! Below is more information on our customizable Sharable Report , Dash…
May 8, 2015 - News
API News Rundown 5.4.15
A weekly rundown of all things API! At APIContext, we love APIs and everything that makes the API Ecosystem what it is. Keep up to date, learn of new tech, o…
May 4, 2015 - Feature Updates
JSON and XML Content Error Reporting
One of the common problems we see with APIs is a HTTP 200 code, but a mobile app, in particular still has problem with the results. That usually means there …
April 21, 2015 - News
API News Rundown 4.20.15
A weekly rundown of all things API! At APIContext, we love APIs and everything that makes the API Ecosystem what it is.. Keep up to date, learn of new tech, …
April 20, 2015 - Feature Updates
Regional Cloud API Test Locations and Cloud Performance
In our quest to create the best tool for API Performance Monitoring, we have added more regions for each of the major Cloud Service Providers. We know that i…
April 20, 2015 - News
API News Rundown 4.14
A weekly rundown of all things API! At APIContext, we love APIs and everything that makes the API Ecosystem what it is. With that in mind, here is the first …
April 14, 2015 - Feature Updates
Added Support for SOAP APIs
At APIContext we are always striving to stay agile and with that we want to continue enhancing our product to be the perfect API Performance Monitoring Solut…
April 7, 2015 - Opinion
Tech Talks - When APIs Need to Meet SLAs
APIContext CEO David O'Neill sits down with Tech Talks Central at MWC and discusses APIs, Monitoring, and SLAs. See the original article here: Tech Ta…
April 2, 2015 - Opinion
Why Automated API Testing is Necessary
With the rise of the Microservice business model, more and more companies are using third party plugins within their services. For example, if your new compa…
March 31, 2015 - Opinion
With APIs Replacing Middle Management, How is Their Performance Measured?
An article recently published by PETER REINHARDT made some very valid claims that APIs are starting to replace Middle Management. Easy examples would …
March 19, 2015 - Opinion
Application Performance Management vs. API Performance Monitoring
The difference between monitoring the performance of your Apps and the performance of your APIs is greater than a lot of people care to admit. Application Pe…
March 13, 2015 - News
Over 25 Million API Tests Run
March 10, 2015 - Feature Updates
Cookie Authentication
We support Cookie Authentication using the Post-Conditions section of a test, in conjunction with a multiple-test test run. The general idea would be a test …
March 10, 2015 - News
APImetrics will be Attending MWC 2015
We will be attending the Mobile World Congress, March 2-5. If you are attending and want to schedule a meeting reach out to [email protected] . Remember…
February 20, 2015 - News
API Monitoring Lessons from Facebook Going Down
Just after 12:00 am on Tuesday January 27 th , Facebook.com went down for a little over an hour. Not only did this force humans to have to organically connec…
February 9, 2015