APIs For Executives

What Traits Should Your Startup Look for in a Software Engineer?
API University

You are a non-technical founder with a great product idea. You've done the research, pitched your product and secured funding. Now you need an engineer who can help bring your vision into a functioning product. What traits are you going to look for in your first software engineering hires?

Analysis

Arpan Sheth

API Strategy, Developers, Human Resources

04-30-2019

4 Ways Shutterstock Creates Lasting API Partnerships
API University Shutterstock

Customer and partner retention is a mission-critical metric for your API programs success. After first launching its API in 2012, learn how Shutterstock has expanded it today and how it focuses on partner engagement to discover how best to offer exactly what their API partners need.

On the Web

ProgrammableWeb Staff

Images

02-25-2019

Merging Companies? 4 IT Questions to Answer
API University

Mergers inevitably increase the IT complexity an organization faces. APIs are universal connectors, so the ways in which businesses monitor and manage their APIs can turn those connections into points of leverage and opportunities for the increased insight and control needed in an M&A.

Analysis

David Feuer

Business, API Management

12-20-2018

How DataSift Survived Twitter's Merciless Business Behavior in the API Economy
API University Twitter

In this last installment of our series "The End of the API Economy As We Know It" we look at how DataSift had their licensing agreement with Twitter unexpectedly terminated. This story details how DataSift coped with the setback and provides lessons for any company that relies on third-party APIs.

Case Study

Bob Reselman

API Strategy, Social

12-11-2018

How the USDS is Modernizing Medicare’s 50 Year Old Payment System
API University CMS Quality Payment SubmissionsBlue Button

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services recently faced with the reality that their legacy system, one that processes 4% of the US GDP, needed to be modernized for a number of reasons. This is the story of what USDS is doing to address the situation and keep a mission critical system online.

Case Study

Wendell Santos

Healthcare, API Strategy, Government

11-13-2018

Stitch Avoids the End of API Economy as We Know It
API University

Taking advantage of APIs is a quick and inexpensive technique for a business so long as those APIs are available and remain constant. Changes happen to APIs all the time and this is the story of Stitch, a company that found a way to succeed, despite the uncertainties inherent to the API economy.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

API Strategy, Business

10-26-2018

How PeopleLinx Thrived, Even After LinkedIn Cut-Off Access To Its APIs
API University LinkedIn

As part of our series on the end of the API economy as we know it, we offer a story about a company that survived being shut out of the API that was the lifeblood of its business. This is the story of PeopleLinx, a company that made money using the LinkedIn API, until the API access was removed.

Case Study

Bob Reselman

API Strategy

10-16-2018

Riding the Wave of Digital Disruption: 5 Tips to Help Legacy Businesses Operate Like Startups
API University

Many startups are digital natives, meaning they don't have to deal with issues arising from legacy systems as enterprises often have to. Here are five key enablers to help established companies overcome disadvantages they may face compared to digital natives and stay competitive in the long run.

Analysis

David Feuer

Enterprise, Business

09-05-2018

How Singapore Will Run the Country Using APIs
API University

How do you integrate data and services from a government that includes 85 agencies? In Singapore the answer is to create a whole-government API. Users benefit by only having to deal with a single interface while agencies are spared the job of coming together as a single entity.

Case Study

Wendell Santos

Government

06-24-2018

Why Stream Switched from Python to Go
API University Stream

The company Stream announced recently that it has changed its core service language from Python to Go. The company uses Go for all performance intensive code, and it still uses Python where its programmers feel makes sense. Stream is an API for building, scaling, and personalizing activity streams.

Case Study

ProgrammableWeb Staff

Languages, API Strategy

06-10-2018

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