Global API adoption is growing massively, with businesses finding plenty of ways to build innovative, exciting and disruptive API experiences. Sharing these experiences can provide plenty of insight and inspiration for others, spurring them on to ever-greater API achievements.

That’s where Tales from API-Topia: 28 ways brands are building world-leading API experiences comes in. It’s your chance to peek inside other businesses and verticals to see what they’re doing with APIs, how they’re doing it and why. To see what it takes for APIs to thrive beyond traditional boundaries and showcase what unmatched performance and steadfast reliability can enable.

Whether you’re a platform manager, product manager or developer, the examples cited in Tales from API-Topia should have something to add to the way you think about your own API programme.

Platform managers

On the platform management front, we look at how businesses are:

• Architecting and building performant, secure API platforms
• Scaling API platforms across their organisations
• Governing and optimising their platforms

Product managers

For API product managers, we use real-world examples of organisations that are:

• Designing valuable API products
• Launching and marketing API products
• Analysing value and optimising API products

Developer community

And for the developer community, we shine a spotlight on companies that are:

• Creating, securing and testing APIs
• Deploying APIs into production
• Monitoring, troubleshooting and updating APIs

No matter how you’re working with APIs or at what scale, looking at your ecosystem in the context of the bigger picture can help. The smallest spark can lead to an inferno of great ideas, so why not take a dip into Tales from API-Topia and see what inspiration you can draw from others’ experiences?

Fuel your API success

There’s a reassuring element to this as well – each of the case studies mentioned were in a position where they needed to overcome one or more problems or limitations in their work with APIs. If you’re currently wrestling with an API-related issue, rest assured there are others out there who have been in the same situation. You might even find an example of one of them in Tales from API-Topia.

At , sharing is caring, as shown by the fact that our open source API Gateway is yours to use for free, forever. It also means we’ll be adding new case studies and examples to Tales from API-Topia regularly, so check in from time to time to catch up with the latest examples of outstanding API experiences in action around the globe.

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