The decisions you make around software for billing in small business operations can have major repercussions in terms of how you can track billable services and raise invoices. The right invoicing software for your API business can even help you get paid on time.

No go-to-market strategy is complete without having a way to generate revenue from your product. APIs are no different. Indeed, in today’s flourishing API economy, you have a great opportunity to unlock revenue and really make your API work for you. All you need is a sound strategy to commercialize your API product and the right tools to support your monetary goals.

In the first article of this series, we introduced Fastify and compared it to Express, highlighting the benefits of switching to Fastify for high-performance web applications. We also explored Fastify's plugin system in detail, showing you how to extend and customize your web applications with reusable modules. In this part, we'll dive deeper into some of Fastify's more advanced concepts.

When I was working at AWS, one of the things that inspired me the most was the company’s founding principles. As articulated by Andy Jassy, then CEO of AWS: AWS laid the foundation of a cloud infrastructure that works like Lego blocks and can be provisioned immediately. As customers’ businesses grew, they could scale effortlessly, paying only for what they needed rather than making large upfront investments.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and automation stand at the vanguard of the future of work. While it’s impossible to predict with certainty how things will change, a few current trends and stats provide a good sense of where the future of AI and automation will take us. As evidenced by the recent interest in generative AI, companies want to experiment with how to reap deep benefits from automation technology.