In the Social collection, @soundcloud decreased by 11% from 8.98 to 8.01. This was owing to a short outage on 8 December that affected several endpoints with HTTP status code 504 Gateway Timeout being returned.

There are a number of good reasons to use an API gateway, but know the downsides before going that route. Understanding API Gateways: The Benefits and Disadvantages hubs.li/Q01xKDPb0

As people are asking me about Twitter and how we tracked issues - here's a free resource powered by APImetrics - Quality, Compliance & Governance to help - it'll give you 20-30 minutes warning of problems and performance issues. Ping me if you want to learn more.

In the US Govt APIs category, U.S. Commerce Dept. dropped 30% from 8.22 (in the Green Zone) to 5.7 (in the Red Zone): increase in outliers with the standard deviation jumping massively (> 1000% on one, >300% on the other). It lit up like a Christmas tree on hubs.li/Q01ykb160!

Outlier patterns always pique our curiosity. Here's something we're looking at: Why does the consent server at Yorkshire Building Society shut off every night at 3am GMT? We're gonna do a little digging!

When is a hack not a 'hack'? When it's doing what the #api was designed to do... yes T-Mobile, yes Optus I am looking at you. The thing is, stopping these doesn't even need an expensive solution, it needs governance monitoring which can be inexpensive. apimetrics.io/api-security-h…

This week's API Performance Report featuring @Monzo, @Contenful and @MyTideFinance hubs.li/Q01FPhSk0

Optic's API Timeline just launched. See how your API has changed over time 👇 #openapi #apilifecycle useoptic.com/docs/share-doc…

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Twitter shut off its free API and it's breaking a lot of apps | Engadget hubs.li/Q01KPfHk0

Infrastructure APIs: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly hubs.li/Q01KPc5M0

4 Essential API Program Components to Consider Right Now hubs.li/Q01KPfGD0

Exciting news! April is all about workflows. - APImetrics hubs.li/Q01LZWX40

Our CEO David O'Neill (Dave O'Neill) is attending the Financial Data Exchange Global Summit in Raleigh this week. And he's going to talk about how we build trust into API Ecosystems. If you want to meet with David, please don't hesitate to reach out here – or to him directly!

The Analyst role is specifically designed to empower users who need to perform triage activities. With this role, users can access and analyze data, and debug issues rapidly to ensure that API performance remains at its peak. hubs.li/Q01M-rqv0

Reddit CEO: We're Sticking With API Changes, Despite Subreddits Going Dark hubs.li/Q01T3k-Q0

Hey U.S. Department of Energy Data.gov we've been posting on our blog for weeks about the terrible performance of the Department of Energy's #API. What is going on over there??