The shift toward cloud-native architectures, as well as multi-cloud and hybrid cloud structures, has impacted the API economy in many ways. More and more companies have begun to move their infrastructure and applications to the cloud, which dramatically changes the way that APIs are created, deployed, and managed. At the same time, APIs are being …
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5 Steps to Fueling a Successful Local Analytics Product Using Data Axle’s Data on RapidAPI
What Problems Should a Location Analytics Product Help Customers Solve? Here are four specific areas where a location analytics product is particularly helpful. Connect to the Data Axle Business Search API Market Segmentation: When a customer needs to better understand the types of businesses, consumers, or competitors within a specific …
How to Use the Horoscope API with Python, PHP, Ruby & Javascript Examples
The Horoscope API is a professional daily horoscope solution for websites and mobile applications to embed in their display pages. Horoscopes are a traditional feature of news sites and magazines, as well as being popular on matrimonial and match-making websites. The Horoscope API supports all 12 Western zodiac signs: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, …
What Are Microservices?
Microservices definition explained When it comes to building applications, there are multiple parts that work together within its software. Microservice architecture, or microservices for short, is a structural approach to building applications in which the parts work independently, but together. The framework allows for each individual function …
How to Use the CalorieNinjas API with Python, PHP, Ruby & Javascript Examples
Food Journaling has become quite popular in the past few years, as it goes without saying that having a well-balanced diet is key to living a healthy life. Whether your health goals are cutting calories, increasing energy, or simply aiming to monitor your consumption - keeping track of your daily intake will always be the first step in that …
8 Common API Error Examples and Use Cases
An Application Programming Interface (API) is a software interface that serves as a medium to connect computers and computer programs. APIs have become increasingly valuable that they generate a large portion of many companies’ revenue, including companies such as Google, Amazon, and Salesforce. Today, APIs have adopted useful features that have …
How to Use the unogsNG API with Java, Python, PHP, Ruby & JavaScript Examples
An over-the-top (OTT) platform is a service that delivers video content over the internet. Users can access such content on their smartphones, personal computers, smart TVs, and other supported devices. OTT platforms have literally taken the entertainment industry by storm. With millions of subscribers to various OTT streaming services in the US …
How to Use the Currency Exchange API with PHP, Python, Ruby & JavaScript Examples
The Currency Exchange API allows developers to add real-time exchange rate information from 19 supported currencies into their software applications. Currency Exchange is a SOAP API that uses the Simple Object Access Protocol and XML to return values from input queries. Sign up for a free RapidAPI account to use the API with code snippets, …
How to Use the Love Calculator API with Python, PHP, Ruby & JavaScript Examples
The Love Calculator is a simple and fun API that can be used to build a free romantic partner compatibility application. Matchmaking services are provided by this API using linguistic analysis of the names of the couple involved. The Love Calculator is hosted by RapidAPI and free to use. Embed the script in a website or mobile application with a …
Monolithic vs Microservices Comparison: Which is the Best Architecture?
Software development is on the increase as there is a need for companies to have their business online. Moreover, individual software applications and programs help enterprises to be more effective and productive. It for this reason that there is a push to create enhanced applications that will lead to business efficiencies and growth. All …
Deep Dive into API Governance with Examples & Use Cases
An application programming interface is a critical piece of online development. An API acts as a guide and filter as users reach out to information on a server. As more organizations adopt API technology, they will create more of these structures within their companies and organizations. Without API governance, organizations will have trouble …
Introducing RapidQL: Fetch, combine, and aggregate data from multiple APIs and databases in a single call
Have you ever wanted to grab an address, lookup the 10 nearest restaurants, and provide Uber price and ETAs — all in a single API call? What about fetching a list of users from a database and simultaneously doing email validation and phone number validation? Well now you can, with RapidQL, our recently launched open source project. And those …
Top 10 Best News APIs (Updated for 2023)
News API Tutorials Google News API Python News API Ruby On Rails News API React Tutorial Related Links How to use an API What is JSON? What APIs can do for News How many Newspapers have an API? …
Top 10 Best Email APIs
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Introducing the QuickSet Cloud API: Automatically Discover IoT Device Information
We are thrilled to announce that we have partnered with Universal Electronics to launch the QuickSet Cloud Predictive Discovery API on RapidAPI. The QuickSet Cloud API utilizes the largest knowledge graph of devices to uniquely identify a device and its associated attributes such as device type, brand, model, etc. Identification can be done using a …