{"id":20966,"date":"2016-03-04T18:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-04T18:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3708038"},"modified":"2016-03-04T18:45:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T18:45:00","slug":"how-apis-make-or-break-success-in-the-digital-world-by-ryanpinkham-cloudexpo-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/how-apis-make-or-break-success-in-the-digital-world-by-ryanpinkham-cloudexpo-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"How APIs Make or Break Success in the Digital World By @RyanPinkham | @CloudExpo #Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State of API 2016 Report revealed some important findings about the growth, opportunities, challenges, and processes for the API industry in 2016.<br \/>\nAmong our most revealing findings, we discovered:<br \/>\nGrowth in the industry: 1 in 5 respondents began developing APIs in the last two years alone.<br \/>\nMobile and IoT are fueling growth: 54% of API providers expect mobile to drive the most growth; 44% expect IoT to drive the most growth.<br \/>\nConcerns over security: Security is the #1 challenge API providers want to see solved, with 41% of providers citing security as a top challenge.<br \/>\nFocus on quality: 85% of respondents say that API quality is either very important or extremely important to their organization.<br \/>\nYou can find these findings and more of the key takeaways from the State of API 2016 Report in the infographic below. You&#8217;ll also find high profile examples of how the findings of the report have already played out in the real world for companies like Netflix, Salesforce, Amazon, and Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3708038\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State of API 2016 Report revealed some important findings about the growth, opportunities, challenges, and processes for the API industry in 2016.<br \/>\nAmong our most revealing findings, we discovered:<br \/>\nGrowth in the industry: 1 in 5 respondents began de&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20967,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20966\/revisions\/20967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}