RapidAPI this week announced it has added application programming interfaces (APIs) from Twilio to a marketplace it created to provide a central repository through which APIs from multiple sources can be easily discovered and vetted.
As part of that effort, RapidAPI has also joined the Twilio Build program through which Twilio manages technology alliances with third-party vendors.
Announced at the SIGNAL 2019 conference hosted by Twilio, the alliance between Twilio and RapidAI specifically adds Twilio Verify, Lookup, SMS, and PhoneNumber APIs to a RapidAPI marketplace that is already being accessed by more than one million developers, said RapidAPI CEO Iddo Gino. In total, there are now more than 10,000 APIs that can be accessed via the RapidAPI Marketplace.
The RapidAPI Marketplace provides an on online venue that surfaces APIs that are both well-documented and supported, said Gino. That approach reduces the probability of an organization relying on an API that is suddenly no longer being maintained.
“Anyone these days can publish an API on multiple platforms,” says Gino.
RapidAPI has also developed pattern matching tools that identify which APIs might best apply in specific use cases, added Gino.
As channel partners increasingly become dependent on APIs to integrate various platforms and applications, API management has become a significantly bigger challenge. An online venue such as RapidAPI goes a long way to reducing the business risks associated with relying on APIs to enable a specific solution to be built and maintained.
Going forward, dependencies on APIs is only going to increase as organizations and the partners that support them look to build cloud-native applications based on microservices. Each microservice will have its own API that needs to be secured and managed.
In general, APIs have been a godsend to channel partners delivering integration services. Like most good things, however, it is also possible for APIs to easily become too much of a good thing.
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