Tips on how to integrate APIs fast but with reasonable level of security

Each application has dozens or hundreds of API integrations. To make all of the integrations and launch a product, we must perform quickly, not spending a year on each integration.

The world of applications offers a possibility to enrich your app with a lot of functions. So, a single application will require more and more API integrations. Therefore, API usage will only increase as time goes on.

As we are talking about FinTech products, it is always about sensitive data. When you have to work with sensitive data, it is always about security. Therefore, it is necessary to develop products quickly but safely.

Broken or hacked APIs are behind principal data breaches. By 2022, API abuses will move from rare to the most frequent attack vector, resulting in data breaches for enterprise web applications. For example, one of the worst data breaches of 2020 possibly happened because the API keys were left exposed—so the data was freely accessible to anyone on the web.

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Our CTO shares some tips on how to perform quickly but with sufficient 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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1. Types of APIs, their differences, and the specific advantages of each API type.
2. Types of authorization and authentication.
3. Avoiding the need to build everything from scratch.
4. Speed up the API integration process.
5. API explained: definition and visualization.
6. Solution tips from our CTO.

Stay informed and keep your API integrations safe.