APIs securely expose key enterprise data and services to internal stakeholders and external developers. They can also generate a goldmine of data. As you grow your API programs to reinvent operations, build modern applications, and create ecosystems, you can also use key API data to answer some important questions: Which customers are using my APIs? How do I categorize my customers? Should I monetize my APIs? How should I build my API revenue model and rate plan?

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are both the glue between systems, data, and applications and the mechanisms that let developers leverage functionality and data for new purposes.

The news business has undergone a profound transformation since the advent of the internet. In just a few years, readers have gone from consuming news primarily in printed form to overwhelmingly favoring digital channels for real-time news delivery. To keep pace with reader demand, we need to continually innovate to ensure that The Telegraph provides the online and mobile news channels that keep our readers returning again and again.

We’re excited to announce the general availability of Apigee Edge for Private Cloud 4.19.01. This release gives our customers even more flexibility to manage their APIs with features like Open API 3.0 support (OAS 3.0), self-healing with apigee-monit, TLS security, virtual host management improvements, and additional software support. Most notably, we are making the New Edge experience generally available to all customers.

Part and parcel of modern enterprise development is building APIs that enable you to expose your services to developers both inside and outside your organization. But just building APIs isn’t enough. Getting APIs and API programs to market successfully hinges on convincing your developers to actually use them. And the key driver of getting developers to adopt and consume APIs, both within a company or among the wider developer community, is the developer portal.

APIs have come a long way from the arcane geek-speak of software interfaces popularized by Win32 APIs (still among the most commonly searched API phrases). Today, APIs represent interfaces between businesses and large swaths of internal enterprise services and business units. APIs not only connect software to software but also help to create entire commercial ecosystems, and so have become integral parts of how enterprises conduct business.

Good API design separates APIs that merely expose assets from those that help developers get things done. As I’ve written before, and as we’ll explore in this article, good design includes the style in which web API URLs are constructed.

Whether in the tech press or analyst reports, it became more common in 2018 to see the words “API” and “security”—or worse, “API” and “breach”—together in the same headline. APIs are not only the connective tissue between applications, systems, and data, but also the mechanisms that allow developers to leverage and reuse these digital assets for new purposes.