Finally, the last aspect we would like to shed the light on is managing partners’ expectations regarding the further development of the API. If we talk about the consumer qualities, APIs differ little from other B2B software products: in both cases, you need to form some understanding of SLA conditions…

Historical period: from the 10th millennium BCE to the 2nd century CE Scene of action: Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, the Mediterranean — This is the first chapter of the Section I of the book on beer and brewing history I’ve been writing. I’ve actually advanced to Chapter 14, but then noticed that I somehow forgot to publish first three chapter. So, some #latergram. The Sumerians are widely regarded as the first civilization…

Historical period: 1842 — ? Scene of Action: Plzen — This is the last chapter of the Section I of my free book on beer and brewing history. The second section will be dedicated to Belgium, while the third one, to the craft revolution. You reaction will greatly boost my motivation to continue the work. Middle-19th century was a triumph…

This is the Chapter 31 of my free e-book dedicated to APIs. If the operations executed via the API imply consequences for end users or partners (cost money, in particular) you must provide a test version of the API. In this testing API, real-world actions either don’t happen at all…

This is the Chapter 30 of my free e-book dedicated to APIs. Regretfully, many API providers pay miserable attention to the documentation quality. Meanwhile, the documentation is the face of the product and the entry point to it. The problem becomes even worse if we acknowledge that it’s almost impossible…

Historical period: the 19th century CE Scene of action: London, Burton upon Trent, Saint Petersburg — This is the Chapter 13 of my free book on beer and brewing history. The Russian customs tariff of 1822 that finally buried the Burton trade in the Baltics (see the ‘It’s all about Water’ chapter), contained one important exception: porter. Probably, because it was not produced in the Russian…

This is a Chapter 29 of my free e-book dedicated to APIs. First of all, an important remark: when we talk about supporting API customers, we mean supporting developers and to some extent business partners. End users seldom interact with APIs directly, with an exception of several non-standard cases. If…

Historical period: the 19th century CE Scene of action: Burton upon Trent — This is the Chapter 12 of my free book on beer and brewing history. While the beer trade in the Baltics was stagnating, another prospective market was growing at a faster pace: ‘The Jewel in the Crown’, e.g. India. First beer shipments to Madras and other colonies were already mentioned…

This is a Chapter 28 of my free e-book dedicated to APIs. Implementing the paradigm of a centralized system of preventing partner endpoints-bound fraud, which we described in the previous chapter, in practice faces non-trivial difficulties. The task of filtering out illicit API requests generally comprises three steps: identifying suspicious…