CIO Bulletin

RapidAPI – World’s Largest API Hub Enabling Developers to Find, Manage, and Connect to Thousands of APIs

APIs have become essential tools for building software – proliferating across the organization and growing from hundreds to thousands. As development teams increasingly use more APIs, they are exploring new API types such as GraphQL, Kafka, and more. Compounding this challenge is that most companies have services running on heterogeneous environments with multiple gateways and hybrid and multi-cloud scenarios.

RapidAPI, the world’s largest API Hub where over 3 million developers find and connect to thousands of public APIs meets this need with a next-generation platform that integrates with any API environment. It was made by developers for developers so they could have one place to access APIs and Microservices and build applications more efficiently and easily. The company helps developers discover and connect to thousands of public APIs, covering everything from file storage and currency conversion to flight search and statistics. Organizations can use RapidAPI Enterprise to create a centralized hub environment to help developers reuse and connect to existing APIs faster while providing IT with enterprise-wide visibility and governance of API consumption.

Cutting-Edge API Products Offered

RapidAPI Hub: There are thousands of APIs out there that do things like store files, enrich data, and send messages. Because each API has its own structure, data format, and networking protocols, finding and connecting to the right one can be difficult and time-consuming. RapidAPI is the world’s largest API hub with over 3 million developers accessing more than 30,000 APIs. RapidAPI makes it easy to connect to REST, SOAP, GraphQL, or Asynchronous APIs. For each API you’ll see performance metrics like average latency, uptime, and popularity. You can test API requests from your browser. Users can Monitor API performance by visualizing how many requests are made to different APIs, tracking the number of requests that return an error and viewing latency data for each API.

RapidAPI Testing: RapidAPI Testing is a functional API testing and monitoring solution that provides an intuitive UX, support for any API type, and integration with the RapidAPI Marketplace and Enterprise Hub. RapidAPI Testing enables users and enterprises to easily create intricate functional tests for deep validation of APIs, monitor and manage API tests across multiple geographies, and integrate to the CI/CD pipeline, collaborate across teams, and natively integrate with the RapidAPI Marketplace and Enterprise Hub. RapidAPI Testing enables you to create customizable functional test flows that provide deep validation of REST, SOAP, and GraphQL APIs. An easy-to-use interface offers users three options for test generation, enabling developers and non-developers to create visual, automated, or code-based test generation.

RapidAPI Design by Paw: RapidAPI Design by Paw is an API design tool that accelerates API delivery and improves developer experience. It does so by offering an API client with an intuitive UI and superior performance that simplifies development workflows and streamlines API collaboration. RapidAPI Design by Paw eases development workflows for testing ongoing API projects. It offers powerful environment variables and dynamic values that improve productivity for developers. Unlike other design solutions, RapidAPI Design by Paw can be extended through its JavaScript API to allow custom API flows.

RapidAPI Enterprise Hub: It is a customizable API platform used by developers across all industries to find, manage, and connect to several hundreds of APIs, as well as external API subscriptions. Built on the world’s largest public API hub, RapidAPI Enterprise Hub enables leading enterprises to accelerate innovation and bring software to market faster. The RapidAPI Hub is a single consolidation layer that sits in front of an API gateway, enabling your developers to find, connect to, and manage hundreds of APIs across all teams within your organization. The RapidAPI gateway integration works by programatically communicating with the gateway admin API to provision certain objects and forward logs back to the RapidAPI Hub.

The Formidable Leader

Iddo Gino is the Chief Executive Officer of RapidAPI. He is part of Forbes 30 Under 30 list, he's a 2017 Thiel Fellow. Previously, Mr. Gino was a Co-organizer of Hacking Gen Y. He has been programming since he was a kid and continues to contribute to open-source projects.