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Sep 11, 2020
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 provide everybody with insights into the API…
Sep 9, 2020
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 into the API economy and the leading APIs in…
Sep 2, 2020
API Rant... For this week's API rant, a little story from history. When I was a kid, back when telephones were a thing in the hallway, my friends would phone up and say, “is David there?” My father,…
Sep 2, 2020
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 launched API.expert earlier in the year as a…
Sep 1, 2020
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 experiencing torrential rain here in my part of…
Aug 27, 2020
APImetrics Feature Update: New Statistics Views In our rolling series of feature updates we have reached a new milestone with our new stats pages. The changes are designed to improve performance and…
Aug 20, 2020
TTFB – This Isn’t The Metric You’re Looking For TTFB (Time to First Byte) is a metric used by Open Banking UK, and was originally defined by the Open Banking Implementation Entity. The trouble is,…
Aug 19, 2020
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 have at least subsided a bit here in…
Aug 18, 2020
Welcome to OpenAPI! APImetrics provides an enterprise-focused API monitoring solution that interfaces with REST and SOAP API protocols. Monitoring is supported by analytics and customizable downtime…
Aug 11, 2020
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 earlier in the year as a simple way to provide…
Aug 10, 2020
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 simple way to provide everybody with…
Aug 5, 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 as a simple way to provide everybody with…
Aug 4, 2020
API Rants: Test in Prod or give up. This is a public service rant. For the love of Mike/whatever being is responsible for your monitoring, please monitor your APIs in their production environment! I…
Jul 30, 2020
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 State of the APIs over the past seven days.…
Jul 23, 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 about the State of the APIs over the past…
Jul 21, 2020
Hi Monitoring Industry. We need to talk.... It’s not me- it's you. I first wrote a riff on this a couple of years ago, but chickened out of posting it. “Too controversial”, I thought. “I'm sure…
Jul 17, 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 about the API ratings over the past seven…
Jul 16, 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 when we must discourse on the State of the…
Jul 14, 2020
Overlooked API monitoring problems To understand how API monitoring problems get overlooked, there's an old story that goes something like this: You come across a person standing under a street light…
Jun 25, 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 of the APIs over the last seven days. We…
Jun 17, 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 launched API.expert earlier in the year as a…
Jun 11, 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. We launched API.expert earlier in the year…
Jun 5, 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 when we must discourse on the State of the…
May 19, 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 over the last seven days. We recently…
