If your application calls even one third-party API, its reliability ceiling is no longer yours to control. That is the uncomfortable truth behind the uptime numbers API Status Check has been tracking since late 2025 across more than 215 services spanning cloud infrastructure, AI, payments, developer tools, and communications. This is not a ranking exercise. ...
#api economy
6 posts
18 Mar
27 Jan
For much of their history, APIs have quietly powered the online world we depend on. They form the invisible framework connecting applications, synchronizing data, and automating workflows. Once considered a technical necessity, APIs have now evolved from backend utilities into strategic assets that sit at the core of digital transformation. The growth of AI has ...
22 Jan
There’s nothing particularly new about APIs calling it quits and closing up shop. Twitter, for example, ended free access to its API in 2023 as part of a monetization push by Elon Musk. Netflix shuttered its public API for third-party developers back in 2014 and implemented strict rules around data scraping for the APIs that ...
18 Dec 2025
In 2025, building an API is only half the battle. If you’re quite lucky, your API will eventually see its usage explode — but this comes with increased costs, and therefore increased need for revenue generation. Accordingly, figuring out how best to monetize your API is incredibly important — not only will it set the ...
11 Dec 2025
Explore 2026 predictions on how AI agents, MCP standards, authorization, and new API models will reshape the AI-driven API economy.
29 Oct 2025
Supply chain management has never been more important. With the business world and global economy in such a state of constant flux, it’s imperative that business owners find every conceivable way to make their businesses competitive, innovative, and efficient. Failure to do so could result in losing a lifelong customer to a competitor, who’s often ...