Best practices for API Integration - Bearer.sh
- 1. Best Practices for API Integration By Guillaume Montard CoFounder @ Bearer.sh
- 2. API integration /api intɪˈɡreɪʃ(ə)n/ noun The action or process of using one or multiple APIs to interface software with each other.
- 4. Hey, have you seen my great API Hmm, let’s see what integrations I can build with it
- 6. Survey Company per Stage Do you consume third party APIs? To build your core product? Who doesn’t accelerate growth with APIs?To accelerate your growth?
- 8. Do you consume third party APIs?
- 9. ● Build the core product ● Accelerate growth Third party APIs for what?
- 10. To build your core product?
- 11. To accelerate your growth?
- 12. Who doesn’t (yet) accelerate growth with APIs?
- 15. When building integrations API diversity (protocol, format etc.) Feature disparity (sdk, webhook, idempotency, signature etc.) Authentication flow (OAuth 1, 1a, 2 etc.) Lack of async / event-driven mechanism APIs are too raw - use cases are unclear
- 17. While maintaining & managing integrations Unknown API breakage Lack of monitoring & logging API Key management & rotation Number of dependencies to manage Spaghetti codebase & technical debt
- 19. How many APIs are you using? Do you have those answers? How often do they fail? Which integrations are the mostly used? Which data do you send to which provider?
- 21. “My codebase is cluttered with API calls making any changes riskier.”
- 23. “I have more and more update & security issues with third party API SDKs”
- 25. “I have API calls failing which breaks processes and data integrity.”
- 27. “I don’t know which API keys are used and where, so we don’t update them.”
- 29. “I have errors that seems related to API calls but they are hard to track and reproduce.”
- 31. “I don’t know which APIs we use, or which are the most solicited or unreliable.”
- 33. “When an integration breaks usually we know it from our customers.”
- 35. ● No. ● But, some of you do part of it, few examples: But wait, is anyone doing all this? The main problem is lack of tooling to help developers.
- 36. Integrations are critical for your business Building integrations is time-consuming and managing them is complex Developer, SRE/DevOps & Security teams have to be involved Invest & enforce best practices as soon as you can
- 38. Let’s talk about your integrations @g_montard [email protected]