Day: September 27, 2018

We’ve spent lots of time showcasing the event-driven infrastructure from the API providers in different business sectors, and now we wanted to take some time to showcase where the leading API providers are going with their approaches. There is a lot to learn from the most successful API providers out there, and it pays to check in on what the rock stars are up to when it comes to event-driven approaches to operating API platforms. There are five providers we like to think of as API rock stars, all of which have implemented Webhooks to support their operations:

* Twilio Webhooks — SMS, voice, and push technology for messaging applications.
* SendGrid Webhooks — Email push technology for transactional messaging applications.
* Stripe Webhooks — Payment push technology for driving commerce applications.
* GitHub Webhooks — Infrastructure push technology for orchestrating our systems.
* Slack Webhooks — Chat and message push technology for orchestration collaboration.

Once you dive in deeper into these APIs, you begin to learn more about the meaningful events that these platforms let their consumers subscribe to: https://goo.gl/1nwomZ

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#ICYDK: There are thousands of APIs available across many different industries online today, and it can be tough to be able to find just the right API and make sense of the differences between them. Even two APIs that might share a common resource like photos or videos might have completely different designs and make different types of data available. Depending on what your motivations are for wanting to find data, you might have different views of what data is valuable and which characteristics are most important to you. Many of the companies we talk with about data discovery express their interest in data that is changing in real time, but in the same breath, dictate that they want data from API providers who have significant historical data as well. It can be fairly easy to find real-time sources of data, and it can be relatively easy to find data that possess archives, but finding API sources that have both proves to be pretty difficult, making this a pretty interesting challenge when it comes to API discovery.

The federal government is one place to find significant stores of archival data, ranging from economic to environmental — the problem is they don’t have very much data that is delivered in real-time. Social data has recently been a rich place to find real-time data, but leading platforms are increasingly shutting down access to historical data, and in Twitter’s case, they are working to actively monetize it. Data is valuable these days, real-time data makes it even more valuable, and each year of historical data you possess makes it exponentially more valuable. https://goo.gl/xKwDu5