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How APIs Have Opened Trading from Big Brokerages to Individual Traders
While we typically associate API trading with big brokerages or hedge funds running high-frequency arbitrage strategies, in reality, it's a broader market with many more opportunities for entry than most people think. API trading involves executing trades that are generally placed by an algorithm.
11-09-2018
Estated Upgrades Property Data API with RESO Compliance and Parcel Search for Proptech Industry
Estated, a leading property data provider, today announced the latest version of their property data API. Businesses and developers will now have access to over 135M properties and nearly 160M parcels across the United States. Estated now offers a RESO compliant Universal Property ID search feature.
10-29-2018
Why Decentralization is the Future of iPaaS
What if centralized integration services are getting it wrong? What if in the future, every service would come with integrations out-of-the-box? Every cloud service would have their own mini, built-in iPaaS, and apps from disparate cloud services would support integrations with each other.
10-29-2018
How Design Thinking Can Make Your Good API Amazing
Developing a software product is an enormous challenge, but it’s also enormously rewarding. This article provides a guide to design thinking when developing your API. It will cover what an API is, what design thinking is and why it matters and some essential API design tools.
10-24-2018
Storyblocks Stock Media API Brings Stock Content to Your Multimedia Platform
Storyblocks, the first subscription stock media service, has launched their Storyblocks Developer Portal. The self-serve portal allows developers to create test keys and try out the full functionality of the Storyblocks Stock Media API, from search filters to downloads. The Storyblocks API is the
10-18-2018
Should You Build or Buy Your Data Quality Solution?
The cost of bad data is high – from faulty insights, poor business decisions and lost sales to an annual cost of $3.1 trillion for U.S. companies alone. Melissa offers a white paper weighing the pros and cons of addressing data quality in-house versus an off-the-shelf solution.
10-17-2018
How the FXCM APIs and Tools can get you Started with Algorithmic Trading
Just as online trading expanded the options available to traders, a similar industry shift has been playing out over the past few years as algorithmic trading has become more accessible. This article looks at FXCM's platform including its API that helps traders get started with algo trading.
10-02-2018
How the OnSched API can Integrate Scheduling Into Your Chat-bot
Chatbot systems have greatly evolved the customer service space with rapid, personalized responses that can save businesses hundreds of thousands of dollars. OnSched provides a complete Consumer, and Setup, REST API to build online booking right into your chatbot's responses and workflows
09-19-2018
How the ClimaCell Microweather API Is Changing the Game
If you're a developer looking for a weather API, you're probably overwhelmed by the number of options out there. The ClimaCell Micro Weather API has more granular data making it different from the rest. ClimaCell can sense more weather so it can deliver more granular real-time and forecast insights.
08-16-2018
How to Use the ipstack API for Free Geolocation and Determine Timezone, Language and Currency
Web developers often have to work harder than mobile app developers to get information about their site visitors. This article will introduce you to the ipstack API, a service that provides users with geolocation, timezone lookup, language, currency and organizational identity.
08-15-2018
How the coinlayer API Helps Integrate Cryptocurrency Pricing Into Your App
With the explosion of cryptocurrency in recent years, software services are needed to help with the plethora of currencies, their pricing and exchange rates. With the coinlayer real time cryptocurrency API, you can keep up with more than 386 cryptocurrencies collected from more than 25 exchanges.
07-31-2018
How Postman Can Improve Your API Documentation
Despite modern technology’s reliance on APIs to bridge gaps between services and platforms, the actual process of developing and understanding APIs is fraught with gaps in communication among people, teams and business verticals. This article looks at how Postman can help improve your documentation.
07-09-2018
Estated API Gives You the Residential Property Data You Want in One Place
Estated offers an API solution that provides nationwide coverage of U.S. residential property data. This article walks you through an introduction to Estated's API. The tutorial will run through the steps of signing up, making sense of the documentation, and also cover making requests and use cases.
06-28-2018
How the FXCM API Spurs the Growth of Automated Trading
Algorithmic trading continues to gain popularity as alternative data becomes more accessible and new markets are developing. API trading can enhance efficiency and offer more flexibility to traders. This article introduces you to the FXCM API, developed with algorithmic trading in mind.
06-26-2018
Why the Transportation Market Exemplifies the Need for Vertical API Platforms
As many organizations still use legacy systems in tandem with more modern solutions, APIs serve as a connection between the two. There are two types of API companies experiencing success—those with vertical and horizontal platforms—each offering a different level of connectivity and expertise.
06-15-2018
How SwaggerHub Helps Your API Development Program Scale
It's a great thing when your product or service is being used by thousands. But systems need to scale to accommodate your growing user base. Managing the processes that help you scale can be difficult. In this article we discuss the ways in which SwaggerHub provides a platform for API team to scale.
06-11-2018
API Orchestration – Deliver Connectivity Solutions not Code
This article is focused on SaaS and Application developers considering how to best meet their end-user’s integration and automation needs. These days it's not so much ‘do you integrate?’ but ‘how do you integrate?’ In the end the goal should be to focus on satisfying stakeholders.
05-16-2018
How Postman Solves Four Major Concerns of the Enterprise
Enterprise software companies display wide variety in their needs and behaviors but fundamentally they are concerned with security, administration and control, cost-effectiveness and visibility. While the problems are not unique to APIs, the solutions used by modern enterprises include them.
05-07-2018
Five Problems That an API Development Environment Solves
An ADE addresses the needs of the API developer: combining and centralizing the tools needed to work on any aspect of an API development workflow. Here we look at the key features of an ADE, how it supports, simplifies and formalizes API development and meets the most critical API development needs.
03-27-2018
How Autodata Became an API Platform for the Automotive Industry
In the 1970s, Autodata was a publisher of technical automotive manuals that helped vehicle owners fix their own cars. Today, Autodata has become a data and software company that offers a platform that powers an emerging generation of API-based solutions for tomorrow’s automotive market.
02-28-2018