Comments on: How Popular Is Your API?

By: SXSW: The Future Application Ecosystem – GigaOM

SXSW: The Future Application Ecosystem – GigaOM — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:48:33 +0000

[...] I moderated the Can You Run a Serverless Business panel a few hours ago, and two of the panelists brought that up as an issue, with Jim Louderback of Revision3 (an occasional columnist for GigaOM) saying that at one point he ended up slowing down their video delivery because the company had relied on too many services located in the cloud, a sentiment echoed by Ethan Kaplan of Warner Music. It’s a topic I discussed yesterday with Sam Ramji, at Sonoa, which offers a service that helps track the health of APIs. [...]

By: Jeffrey

Jeffrey — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 17:50:56 +0000

It always struck me as crazy that a company would outsource the hosting of a line-of-business API to a third party. It’s the technology (and business) equivalent of outsourcing your body’s cardiovascular system.

By: Open APIs: Much Mentioned, Little Understood and Potentially Disruptive | Posts MarketPlace

Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:31:55 +0000

[...] The real question about open APIs isn’t whether they are different in fact from APIs, but whether they are different in value – a lesson I began to glean after seeing this recent GigaOM report, “How Popular is your API.” [...]

By: Steven Willmott

Steven Willmott — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:04:56 +0000

Great to see more companies in the space – you can also check out 3scale (http://www.3scale.net) which provide you some of the same tools and more :) – letting you set up a full developer portal, key management, analytics and also billing and payments.

The API space is really opening up which is great to see and looking helping it get bigger together with apigee :)