We have been profiling a large number of APIs as part of an effort to populate the Streamdata.io API Gallery. We are creating OpenAPI definitions for each of the APIs we add, which provides us with a pretty comprehensive view of the surface area of each API. After completing an OpenAPI, it is pretty easy to assess the overall maturity of an API platform, and identify how far along in their API journey they are. Something that often translates pretty quickly to whether or not they are ready for, and able to put to use, our streaming API services.
One sign of a mature API platform is the presence of webhooks and the documentation around the types of events that are occurring across the platform to which the webhooks will respond. These are the valuable, meaningful events that are occurring amidst all the noise that API consumers and providers want to be notified of. The API providers who have begun the work to identify and cater to these events are further along in their API journey and have a much more mature way of looking at the activity that occurs via their operations. You can take a look at a few of the API rockstars out there today if you want an example of this in action. https://goo.gl/Cp6w8R #DataIntegration #ML
