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Tech Talks - When APIs Need to Meet SLAs

Apr 2, 20153 min read
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Written by

Paul Cray

Co-Founder

Paul co-founded APIContext (formerly APImetrics), building the synthetic monitoring and conformance testing platform from its earliest days.

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 Talks Central  

1:51 “..we built APIContext to answer the specific question: Why everything looks good on your logs but why       can’t your users use it? …”

3:15 “..people are starting to monetise (APIs). When you monetise, people are expecting them to work in a certain way…and there is a huge gap in the market that can verify that (quality) and we’re looking to cover that…”

5:00 “..we kicked of the first version of our tool measuring the big common APIs like Facebook, Amazon, LinkedIn, Instagram, Google and others over 18 months ago and we now have a database of over 20 million records of API transactions over 18 months; so our next step as we grow is to start to do some analysis of those results in order to actually see where the gold standard is; because it is a very complicated problem. It’s the combination of latency plus uptime…”

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