Lesson 5 of Open Banking APIs: Frogs In Hot Water

Gradual performance degradation is one of the most dangerous patterns in API operations. Unlike sudden outages, slow decay is easy to normalise — teams adjust their expectations, thresholds creep upward, and the problem compounds until it becomes a customer-facing crisis.

This fifth instalment of APIContext's Open Banking lessons series uses the frog-in-hot-water analogy to explore how this pattern appears in regulated API environments, and what it takes to detect it early.