This message — one delivered by Jaime Ryan, VP of Product Management for Amplify API Management Platform, in a recent webinar on API marketplaces — suggests that we’ve hit a new window of time in API adoption. APIs have gained widespread acceptance and are built to deliver internal and external support. In fact, of the 71% of businesses […]
Key Takeaways An API Marketplace is a place to collect and expose APIs, both internally and externally. The difference with an API portal is that API marketplaces focus on API products as business interfaces, and they offer features tailored to this goal. API marketplaces can help drive API consumption, tame complexity, promote a business focus […]
“API Products” are mentioned relatively often, and there are different ways to look at the topic. None of them is inherently “right” or “wrong”, and we’ll discuss the two most important flavors of API products in this blog post. Whenever you have conversations about API products, it can be helpful to make sure that everybody […]
Santher is a Brazilian home & personal care brand that manufactures paper products like packaging, toilet paper, feminine pads, and diapers. The company produces some 180 thousand tons of paper every year, putting Santher among the 15 biggest companies worldwide in terms of production capacity. With that amount of paper going through its factories and […]
What if you made API consumption faster and easier? What if app developers didn’t have to hunt around for the right API because it’s already packaged and neatly categorized in a central API marketplace you built, where it can be found and adopted instantly? Think of how quickly you can move your new digital initiative to market. […]
In this blog post we’ll describe the steps required to modify an API Service description on discovery, using Amplify Webhooks and platform APIs using API Builder. API Providers can view details about the discovered API by clicking on the API Service: What if you want to display more information about the discovered API on this page? […]
In a prior blog post we looked at how to deploy API Builder Docker containers on Railway. In this blog post, we’ll look at another hosting platform, Fly.io that also offers a free tier that is useful for development, testing, and proof of concepts. We’ll walk step by step through how to deploy an API Builder container to Fly.io. For […]
API is an abbreviation for Application Programming Interface. As organizations around the world are opening up to partners and embracing data sharing via APIs, they’re finding that it is extremely useful to have a common technical language. API standards help streamline the exchange of information so that organizations can communicate at the speed of business. In […]
The functionality of application programming interfaces (APIs) is built upon several layers — one of which includes requests made to APIs to retrieve a service or data, or what’s otherwise known as an API call. To further explain what an API call is, let’s start with the basics of APIs. The wave of API adoption […]
What is API First? API First is very much linked to strategy and how you want to merge your business model with the emerging technology model. To think about API First, you really have to start thinking about your business. How are you reimagining your business? If you have a new business, what is that business going […]