Blog & News
Mar 2, 2018
In reading up on Open Banking, we recently came across an interesting letter from Olivier Guersent, the European Commission's Director‑General for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital…
Feb 27, 2018
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 (Distributed Ledger Technology). DLT is the…
Feb 14, 2018
We're currently experiencing performance issues with the database which may be impacting some users experience, especially with reports and graphs. We currently expect this to be resolved by 22:00…
Feb 12, 2018
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 actively monitor your production…
Feb 8, 2018
Introducing Schedules Moving forward, we are replacing our system of deploying API calls with schedules. Here's how it works. Previously, you'd need to pick locations and clouds from which to run…
Feb 2, 2018
A quick note, in some of the latest Insights reports we have a number of APIs showing a CASC Score of 0. Unfortunately, a number of APIs were added exactly as the monthly totals were run and this led…
Jan 30, 2018
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 natural thing to do. In fact, often you…
Jan 16, 2018
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 on the launch of PSD2 and Open Banking on…
Jan 12, 2018
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 happens if you realize on Monday morning…
Jan 3, 2018
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 has lots of internal APIs, and might even…
Dec 29, 2017
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 those days, people would shuffle a decade…
Dec 19, 2017
Testing! Testing! Testing! APIContext for Developers and Testers Our friends at ProgrammableWeb have posted a fascinating series of articles on API testing by the estimable Justin Rohrman. There are…
Dec 6, 2017
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 important one is to see if an API meets its…
Dec 1, 2017
Every day, APImetrics run hundreds of thousands of API calls against some of the leading APIs in use. They're the APIs you may depend on, but you don't have a clear Service Level Agreement or…
Nov 9, 2017
This week I spoke at the APIDays Banking Event in Berlin. The topic of my talk was a riff on the title of Robert Persig's 1974 classic, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance . If you haven't read…
Nov 6, 2017
I'll be speaking tomorrow at the APIDays Banking Event in Berlin on Zen and the Art of API Monitoring - I'll aim to post the talk but the gist is simple - in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance…
Nov 3, 2017
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 of the Washington state metropolis. And…
Oct 8, 2017
Each day, APIContext software agents in more than 60 locations around the world regularly exercise a wide variety of API endpoints. APImetrics and its customers use the results of these calls to measure the performance...
Oct 3, 2017
Being an API monitoring and reporting service, we often talk about the bad stuff – outages, performance problems, and just plain weird results. But we also like to be able to say good things when we…
Sep 28, 2017
Basepair is a next generation DNA sequencing (NGS) data analytics SaaS trusted by scientists at Harvard Medical School, Rutgers, Boston Children's Hospital, and others. They make NGS data analysis as simple as booking a flight online. Basepair provides a RESTful interface to add new samples, run analysis, download results, among other...
Sep 27, 2017
Here's a short tale of 2 API calls. They're both from large, well-known American companies. The API calls are doing exactly the same thing. We won't say what, because that would give the game away –…
Sep 25, 2017
Cloud API Hosting Comparisons One of the ways people use APIContext is to validate what their hosting and hosting optimization services are actually doing versus what they say they are doing. You…
Sep 11, 2017
The European Single Market came into being in the early 1990s, but was in many ways more of an aspiration than a process. It wasn't just that there were a lots of vested interests that didn't…
Sep 11, 2017
PSD2 (Payment Services Directive 2) is about to revolutionize the provision of payment and banking services within the European Single Market. All banks will be mandated to expose APIs that allow…
