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# Open Banking Lesson 5: Frogs in Hot Water

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Description: Gradual API degradation is easy to miss until it becomes a crisis\. Watch APIContext's fifth Open Banking lesson on the frog\-in\-hot\-water effect\.

## Summary
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\.

## Page sections

### 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\.

## Key facts
- 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\.

## Primary entities
- APIContext
- Video
- Lesson 5 of Open Banking APIs: Frogs In Hot Water
- API monitoring
- API reliability

## Audience
- API teams
- technology leaders
- SRE teams

## Primary links
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