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Follow on Google News | Global Survey Reveals API Standardization as No.1 Technology Challenge Teams Face When Developing APSmartBear Releases State of API Report 2019 Highlighting Continuing Growth in Microservices and OpenAPI Specification Adoption
By: SmartBear APIs play a critical role in the world of software development — powering both consumer-facing applications and the internal processes that keep modern businesses running efficiently. The State of API Report (https://smartbear.com/ Key findings: · 76 percent of organizations are developing both internal and public-facing APIs · 69 percent of respondents are developing APIs with OpenAPI Specification (OAS) · Nearly all of organizations currently have or plan to have an API testing strategy · Standardization is the No. 1 API technology challenge facing API teams · API teams are using an average of five different tools to develop high quality APIs · 76 percent of respondents said they had a formal API monitoring process >> Read the full State of API 2019 Report. (https://smartbear.com/ Microservice architecture is the preferred method to enable the continuous delivery and deployment of large, complex applications. It also empowers organizations to evolve their technology stack discreetly, scaling and becoming more resilient as needs and requirements change. Nearly three-quarters of respondents believe that adoption of microservice architecture will drive the biggest growth in API adoption in the next two years. "Constructing microservices from an API-first foundation is a solid strategy, and so an increase in microservices architecture styles will only create a proliferation of APIs," said Bill Doerrfeld (https://www.linkedin.com/ With the continued emergence of microservices, organizations can be maintaining hundreds if not thousands of different APIs within their service architecture, and the need to establish standards for how these services communicate becomes clear. Further, 58 percent of respondents report standardization to be their top API development challenge – and one that has fueled a 175 percent increase in adoption of the OAS (https://swagger.io/ As the leader in OAS API development and the company behind the popular Swagger tools (https://swagger.io/) "SwaggerHub has allowed us to scale our growing API and provide our users with a way to test their API calls," said Matthew Buttler (https://www.linkedin.com/ To download the full report visit: https://smartbear.com/ On February 7, SmartBear is hosting a live webinar where SmartBear API experts will discuss the key findings of the report. Register here: https://smartbear.com/ About SmartBear Software SmartBear is behind the software that empowers developers, testers, and operations engineers at over 20,000 of the world's most innovative organizations including Adobe, JetBlue, MasterCard, and Microsoft. More than 6 million people use our tools to build, test, and monitor great software, faster. Our high-impact tools are easy to try, easy to buy, and easy to use. These tools are backed by a team of people passionate about helping you create software that transforms our world. Those tools are SmartBear tools. That team is SmartBear. For more information, visit: http://smartbear.com, or follow us on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/ All trademarks recognized. # End
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