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Startups put more focus on API management


By Alex Handy
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October 22, 2009 —  (Page 1 of 2)
APIs are everywhere. Entities ranging from the New York Times to the federal government offer APIs to access the mountains of information they've collected over the years, whether as a side effect of a SOA effort, or as a general policy of increasing openness. But despite the proliferation of APIs, API management is only just now becoming a hot topic.

James Governor, analyst at RedMonk, said that API management is going to be very important, but its development is still in an early phase.

“At the moment, it's all a bit of a [mess]: Enterprises definitely do not have thorough API management strategies,” he said. “There's some roll-your-own out there, but enterprises have not doubled-down in that space.

“Ultimately, API management is going to be as important as the relational database management wave was. If you think about the role of the DBA, all the performance issues had to be dealt with by the DBA; access to data structures had to be done by the DBA. I see this new role emerging in API management being equivalent to the DBA emerging."

In 2006, a startup called Mashery offered what was, perhaps, the first commercial API management solution. There are now almost a dozen API management solutions available that manage both outgoing and incoming APIs.

3scale Networks is one such API solutions company. The company builds API management software designed to help enterprises monitor their own hosted APIs.

Martin Tantow, cofounder of 3scale, said that many companies now have need for such software because their internal SOA projects have yielded many new services that need to be monitored. While some services can be monitored easily when they are offered via normal server infrastructure, such as Web services hosted through an HTTPd server, many aren't living on top of an existing server application, and thus activity monitoring must be built into the API itself.

Tantow said his company offers a wrapper that can monitor APIs such as these, and can also monitor who uses the service.


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06/17/2011 01:12:44 PM EST

We use CloudGate API management from Managed Methods. Its very comprehensive and cost effective. It provides security, routing, throttling, auditing and monitoring

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