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How to Choose the Right API Tool to Scale

An application programming interface (API) is essentially the u2018middle manu2019 of the internet. API technologies power front-end to back-end interactions, ensuring that your customers have a great experience at every button click. But if developers donu2019t have their APIs in order, users start to experience frustrating error codes and excessive downtime.

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How to Choose the Right API Tool to Scale

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  1. How to Choose the Right API Tool to Scale

  2. An application programming interface (API) is essentially the ‘middle man’ of the internet. API technologies power front-end to back-end interactions, ensuring that your customers have a great experience at every button click. But if developers don’t have their APIs in order, users start to experience frustrating error codes and excessive downtime. An API Lifecycle management platform is like a toolbox that organizes valuable instruments for any developer or company looking to scale their APIs with good governance.

  3. Levels of access A clear overview of API access control (who is using your APIs and their level of authorized access) is vital for successful scalability as it means you can safely work with both internal teams and external partners. RBAC (Role-Based Access Control), which allows discretionary access based on user permissions, is simply a must-have for any enterprise tooling. RBAC allows you to collaborate effectively, without risking opening up data or access unnecessarily.

  4. Ease of collaboration Collaboration sparks and accelerates innovation, both internally and externally, creating synergy in teams for a stronger API ecosystem that improves both customer and developer experience. When people have a shared platform to use, workflows are streamlined and ideas are able to flourish. Collaborative platform-driven governance ensues, when product owners, developers, analysts, and operation professionals work together in a united space, turning into a forceful driver of the API economy. For those wanting to scale up their operations, API tooling that allows for collaborative governance can accelerate the time it takes to market.

  5. Low-code and automation Although it’s possible to write and rewrite code manually as needed, low-code platforms are there to save hours for developers. APIs also need to be carefully monitored at every stage of the API lifecycle to improve uptime. Low-code platforms and automated API management tools enable scalability by making it simpler to write code and track developments for many APIs and users at any one time.

  6. Sandbox and API documentation We recommend a forward-thinking approach to API design best practices that prioritize centralization and standardization. The most successful API-first organizations like Stripe and Twilio are certainly great examples that API design-first is the way to go. A sandbox studio for configuration that allows for Behavior Driven Design (BDD) that designs API ecosystems around user actions, continuous automated testing, and integrated API documentation are just some functions or features to look for in your API management platform toolbox. The right API management platform will auto-generate most test cases from your API specification, but you also have the option to create more. Using a platform means you can make test cases specific to environments – and then reuse a test case across multiple instances.

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