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Application Programming Interface (API) monitoring tools are essential software solutions designed to closely monitor API performance, availability, and security. These tools track key performance metrics like response time, throughput, and latency, helping organizations identify and resolve any issues that could slow down or disrupt their services. These monitoring tools are essential for ensuring APIs remain available and reliable for users.

79% of organizations acknowledge their increasing reliance on APIs for revenue generation. APIs facilitate transactions, streamline operations, and enhance customer experiences. However, any disruptions or malfunctions in API functionality can have significant consequences. While API testing addresses these issues, API test automation is essential for ensuring APIs function correctly and reliably.

There’s nothing worse than wasting money on unnecessary costs. In on-premises data estates, these costs appear as wasted person-hours waiting for inefficient analytics to complete, or troubleshooting jobs that have failed to execute as expected, or at all. They manifest as idle hardware waiting for urgent workloads to come in, ensuring sufficient spare capacity to run them amidst noisy neighbors and resource-hungry, lower-priority workloads.

Two of Europe’s leading enterprises reveal how the modern data stack is fueling their success.

The Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) came into effect in January 2018, aiming to improve the competitiveness and transparency of European financial markets. As part of this, financial institutions are obligated to report details of trades and transactions (both equity and non-equity) to regulators within certain time limits.

REST APIs, or Representational State Transfer APIs, provide a standardized approach for applications to communicate and exchange data efficiently. However, building and managing these APIs can be time-consuming and involve repetitive tasks. This is where REST API tools help. These are software solutions designed to simplify and streamline the entire process for developers, making it more efficient to build, test, and manage REST APIs.

There is a scene in Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation where Tom Cruise is hanging onto the outside of a jet as it has taken off. And while, yes, he’s going with it, he’s not really on board or in control. Some data executives feel like that. It’s not enough to establish goals — or, the destination in this metaphor. The data strategy must provide a flight plan for making sure you get there — on time, on budget and, of course, safely on board.