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API Ratings | August, 2020: Etsy, why so slow?
The time has arrived when we disclose our API ratings for August 2020. We recently launched API.expert as a simple way to provide everybody with insights into the API economy and the leading APIs in different categories in particular. The basic service is free and will remain free, but other, related services will be built on top of it, including your very own API.expert dashboards if you want them! Each week, month and year we’ll look at the APIs we track in a variety of sectors for their quality CASC score (using our patented (US Patent 10,644,962, if you fancy
API Rant: Begging the question…
API Rant… For this week’s API rant, a little story from history. When I was a kid, back when telephones were a thing in the hallway, my friends would phone up and say, “is David there?” My father, who, as the man who controlled the phone would sometimes reply, “yes.” And put the phone down. As he would explain to anybody who cared, the correct question is, “may I speak to David.” What does this have to do with APIs you may ask? Well, let me tell you. A discussion this week with @kin lane revealed an interesting conversational and
API Ratings August 24-31, 2020: New Structure
The time of the week has once more rolled round for us to check on API ratings over the past seven days. Can you believe the year is two-thirds over?! We launched API.expert earlier in the year as a simple way to provide everybody with insights into the API economy and the leading APIs in different categories in particular. The basic service is free and will remain free, but other, related services will be built on top of it, including your very own API.expert dashboards. If something is missing that you think should be here, don’t hesitate to drop us
API Ratings August 17-24, 2020: Cisco Spark
The time of the week has once more come around for API ratings from the last 7 days! We now find ourselves heading towards the end of August and we are experiencing torrential rain here in my part of Europe today. We launched API.expert earlier in the year as a simple way to provide everybody with insights into the API economy and the leading APIs in different categories in particular. The basic service is free and will remain free, but other, related services will be built on top of it, including your very own API.expert dashboards if you want them! If something is missing that you think
APImetrics Feature Update: New Statistics Views
APImetrics Feature Update: New Statistics Views In our rolling series of feature updates we have reached a new milestone with our new stats pages. The changes are designed to improve performance and make it easier to see and understand the data clearly. The key changes are: Summary reports now expand into full page reports You can change the details of the API you are looking at from the stats viewing page without leaving it Only locations where the API call is running show as an option now Improved latency mapping with a new regional summary view as well as the
API Rant: TTFB – This is not the metric you are looking for
TTFB – This Isn’t The Metric You’re Looking For TTFB (Time to First Byte) is a metric used by Open Banking UK, and was originally defined by the Open Banking Implementation Entity. The trouble is, it’s also something of an example of Goodhart’s Law which is hugely problematic for monitoring. Essentially Goodhart states: Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes. Goodhart’s Law – Wikipedia So, harkening back to my previous comments about how self-serving the monitoring industry is, if you define a metric, then you’re defining something somebody can game if you
API Ratings August 10-17, 2020: Poor Old Federal Communications Commission
The time of the week has once more come round for API ratings over the past seven days. We now find ourselves into the second half of August and temperatures have at least subsided a bit here in Europe. We launched API.expert earlier in the year as a simple way to provide everybody with insights into the API economy and the leading APIs in different categories in particular. The basic service is free and will remain free, but other, related services will be built on top of it, including your very own API.expert dashboards if you want them! If something
OpenAPI Welcomes New Member APImetrics
Welcome to OpenAPI! APImetrics provides an enterprise-focused API monitoring solution that interfaces with REST and SOAP API protocols. Monitoring is supported by analytics and customizable downtime alerts and provides data to enterprises to meet service level agreements (SLAs) and customer expectations. “The economy has increasingly become a digital economy and the digital economy has been increasingly becoming an API economy over the past decade,” said Dr Paul Cray, Head of Machine Learning and Standards at APImetrics. “The COVID-19 crisis has only accelerated that trend. Global quality standards that are meaningful, quantifiable and measurable are essential to maximizing the value that
API Ratings August 3-10, 2020: Another volatile week!
That time of the week has already arrived again for us to hand out our API ratings winners and losers over the past seven days. We launched API.expert earlier in the year as a simple way to provide everybody with insights into the API economy and the leading API ratings in different categories in particular. The basic service is free and will remain free, but other, related services will be built on top of it, including your very own API.expert dashboards if you want them! If something is missing that you think should be here in our API ratings, don’t
API Ratings, July 2020: What exactly happened on July 28?
We have staggered further into the second half of the year and another API ratings report for the month of July 2020. We recently launched API.expert as a simple way to provide everybody with insights into the API economy and the leading APIs in different categories in particular. The basic service is free and will remain free, but other, related services will be built on top of it, including your very own API.expert dashboards if you want them! Each week, month and year we’ll look at the APIs we track in a variety of sectors for their quality CASC score