How to save time and stay safe creating as many API integrations as your business needs

In a modern world, not a single development team can implement all the functionality within the framework of a single application. To overcome this issue, programmers use an external API.

In the current FinTech products market, there are lots of APIs that provide different opportunities for their users.?The important thing is speed and number of services. Twenty years ago, it was enough to integrate one API provider in an application in eight months by a team of three to four team members.

Today, when usually one application works with data from 10 to 20 API providers, it is an unaffordable luxury. That is why many companies are looking for ways to speed up the API integration process to make application functionality available to end-users as soon as possible and start earning money in the short term.

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To solve the speed issue, developers should create API integration fast and inexpensively. At the same time, they must keep the application sufficiently secure. Otherwise, your product will fail to enter the market. If you succeed in entering the market quickly but lack sufficient security, sensitive data can be lost or compromised. Both situations can lead your business to losses.

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Our CTO shares some tips on how to perform fast but with the reasonable level of security:

1. Use a data provider where it is possible to do so.
2. Ensure standardization.
3. Use documentation-first (contract-first) approach.
4. Do not create an API gateway service before checking for an existing one.
5. Do not create an API client before checking for an existing one.
6. Use code generation.

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Create as many API integrations as your business needs. Cheap, Fast, & Secure: How to save time and stay safe.