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How to Scale Your API Ecosystem on an Open Source API Gateway

This blog post is part three of a three-part series on how they’ve scaled their API management with Kong Gateway, the world’s most popular open source API gateway. (Here’s part 1 and part 2.) In 2019, our Kong-based API gateway platform hosted about 1,900 proxies and handled 375 million transactions per month. 2020 saw a tenfold increase in both metrics to more than 11,000 proxies and 4.5 billion transactions per month—about 150 million transactions per day.

10 Error Status Codes When Building APIs For The First Time And How To Fix Them

Things don’t always go well when using an API for the first time, especially if you’re a beginner and it’s your first time integrating an API into another system. Often documentation is lacking in terms of errors, since it’s easier to anticipate things going right, than things going wrong. In HTTP, many status codes can give you an idea of what was going on when you called an API.

Comprehensive API Management Platforms: Who Has The Most Features?

Developers often create many small API tools that can improve functionality, creation, tests, and management. For many organizations though, a comprehensive API management platform that consolidates many features into a single, unified solution presents an attractive alternative. If you don’t want to bother with managing a suite of small, disparate tools, you could be interested in understanding more about the following API platforms that provide an exhaustive set of features.

Do I Need an API Led Strategy?

Whether or not you plan for it, APIs are becoming a critical aspect of your business’s functionality. The Wall Street Journal reports that 10 percent of businesses already use more than 200 apps. You cannot stop your employees from adopting apps that help them do their jobs. Instead, you should lead them by developing a digital strategy that helps monitor KPIs, reviews API adoption, and follows a planned roadmap to reach business goals.

Using SQL to democratize streaming data

Streaming analytics is crucial to modern business – it opens up new product opportunities and creates massive operational efficiencies. In many cases, it’s the difference between creating an outstanding customer experience versus a poor one – or losing the customer altogether. However, in the typical enterprise, only a small team has the core skills needed to gain access and create value from streams of data.