Once you decide to monetize your app or APIs, the journey begins to find a simple and robust solution for billing. At Moesif, we know that a billing solution is actually really tough to implement. Getting your product from “0-to-monetization” is not always a straightforward path, even if it should be. Our no-code approach to billing is a simple and elegant way to very rapidly gain the capability to bill customers for usage.
A good business model is one that can easily generate revenue. Often, when developers build something it could easily be packaged and used by another organization. This is extremely true when it comes to APIs. If an API is solving a well-known problem, there is likely a market for it. Being able to expose an API for public consumption can be done in many ways, a popular option being using an API gateway. The real hurdle comes when you decide to start billing for usage.
Elasticsearch is an open-source search engine and analytics store used by a variety of applications from search in e-commerce stores, to internal log management tools using the ELK stack (short for “Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana”). As a distributed database, your data is partitioned into “shards” which are then allocated to one or more servers.
Building great apps and APIs is not an easy task. Even harder, is trying to monetize and create a sustainable business with them. As part of our mission to help companies create better products, we decided to put a bunch of effort towards helping businesses more easily monetize. Our no-code approach to billing is a simple and elegant way to very rapidly gain the capability to bill customers for usage. Easy monetization is the premise for our latest feature for generating revenue from your APIs.
It’s always great to build something that makes money. The most successful businesses often find the easiest and most efficient ways to make money, while keeping costs and support to a minimum. After all, the best businesses and products are simply the ones that know how to build revenue. Many companies now look to monetizing their APIs as part of their overall monetization strategy. API monetization isn’t always easy though.
Savannah Whitman When your platform runs on APIs, all of those APIs need to run perfectly. Quickly resolving issues in your API isn’t just helpful, it’s mandatory. Latency and error monitoring are only the beginning: a healthy server isn’t the same thing as a healthy product. Resolving error cases and API abuse is easiest with full visibility into your API, which is where API analytics come in.
It’s prudent business practice to only focus on your core features when getting to Minimum Viable Product (MVP). Microservices architectures allow you to outsource non-differentiated pieces of your solution to third-party providers; Use someone else for user management, billing and account management. At first blush, it might seem attractive to develop your own API analytics solution, perhaps by building on top of a web analytics tool like Amplitude, MixPanel or Segment.
New technologies always require some planning, changes, and experimentation before they merge into an enterprise stack. GraphQL adoption has been no exception to this. Companies like Airbnb, Netflix, Shopify, and other industry giants have all taken the leap to use this promising technology. In this blog, I will outline a few key considerations for creating your new service, deploying it, and monitoring the service.
In this article, we will take a high-level look at the differences between an API proxy and an API gateway. When a developer publishes a public API, it’s necessary for that API to have security policies and a way to hide backend logic from API consumers. Decoupling your API from your backend services allows you to shield your apps from backend code changes, and allows users to call your API without worrying about availability.
