Blog & News
Aug 22, 2017
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, which meant designing an artificial brain.…
Aug 17, 2017
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 been around for a few years by then.…
Jul 31, 2017
We've been trying to work out the best way of visualizing latency data by location and we're pleased to announce our first version. We're taking the data for each of the steps of an API call we log;…
Jul 31, 2017
Measuring performance from different regions and different clouds is core to what we do and providing developers, managers and product owners with the tools needed to understand what the impact of…
Jul 12, 2017
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 think about what an app actually is, it's…
Jul 12, 2017
While REST and JSON are in vogue for APIs, there are still plenty of APIs out there using the (not-so) venerable XML-RPC specification , which dates all the way back to 1999. Yes, this is a…
Jul 3, 2017
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 get an alert if a HTTP error is seen. That…
Jun 22, 2017
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 in mission-critical workflows. Which is…
Jun 16, 2017
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 purely internal. No one is going to be…
Jun 15, 2017
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 other units in the same organization or by…
Jun 7, 2017
Two changes this week. Reporting (All Locations) You can now generate reports which show the combined results from all locations.
Jun 1, 2017
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 (planes in the wrong place, getting luggage…
May 24, 2017
"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 there, and I thought it'd be helpful to post…
May 23, 2017
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 good API provider will give its users…
May 22, 2017
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 continues for the next 13 years, 2030 web…
May 19, 2017
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 the Expensify website read this…
May 16, 2017
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 does the API do, and how? Authorization:…
May 11, 2017
Great news! APIContext has just added 20 new API call locations to our options for running API calls. This includes multiple options for India, a second Korea location, more European locations…
May 1, 2017
We know from history that API owners can be poor at communicating changes in their APIs. Twitter, for example, is known for burying the lede concerning API changes at the bottom of otherwise unrelated updates. One client also completely changed their OAuth configuration without actually telling a single user of their APIs. It completely shut off a number of applications. With early warning you can know that something is coming to get you. Or at the very least, you'll know to contact your service provider for more data – before the dependent apps and services get shut off for good. One of the values of monitoring the APIs...
Apr 27, 2017
Marcelo Graciolli licensed under CC BY 2.0 There are many ways to monitor API security on the web. Some APIs might have no security – you can make a simple HTTP call and get an answer back – but if…
Apr 26, 2017
Lots of new content and news in our April update. Check it out here , and if you're interested, why not sign up for our newsletter?
Apr 21, 2017
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 API. That's why we came up with the CASC…
Apr 19, 2017
An APIContext study of 100 million samples shows that more than half the APIs in use have serious issues that could compromise companies and consumers, the company reported today. “What this shows is…
Apr 19, 2017
After conducting the largest analysis of API performance ever undertaken, we've reached the same conclusion as we did when we first started with APIContext. Half of the APIs we survey STILL fall below expected quality standards. As Kin Lane, the API Evangelist says, "You wouldn’t operate an API without having the right data regarding...
