API Intersection

This week on the API Intersection podcast, we interviewed Marjukka Niinioja, a co-founder of Osango, an organization that specializes in API business consulting, including architectural work, information architecture auditing, API business models, and ecosystem design. The Osango team works with companies that specialize in designing IoT platforms. Marjukka focuses on teaching and consulting about APIs, AI and platform economy, and digital services.

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This week on the API Intersection podcast, we interviewed Daniel Kocot, Head of API Experience and Operations at Codecentric AG. Codecentric AG is a leader in agile software development and innovative technologies in Germany. 

Daniel's job is to get his customers to answer the question, "why are we thinking in APIs?" He aims to get them to shift their mindset to specialized tools, treating your APIs as products and understanding the end goal that one's trying to achieve with the desire to design a bunch of APIs. 

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This week on the API Intersection podcast,

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While the subscription-based pricing option has been the popular go-to for many SaaS companies, the usage-based model has recently seen significant traction in SaaS companies. But which solution is right for monetizing your API product?

To answer that question, this week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Behailu Tekletsadik, co-founder & CEO of Archetype, which is a startup focused on usage-based billing for APIs. Behailu sat down with the API Intersection team to discuss the pros and cons of a usage-based approach versus a subscription-based approach to your API pricing strategy.

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This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Andrei Soroker, CEO at Fogbender, a B2b customer support tool for API-first companies. We often discuss how to secure the right development tools and scale your API program from there, but we often don't talk enough about supporting the thing when it's out in the wild. Supporting APIs is innately complex, and Andrei shared his perspective on the matter. 

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This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Eric Yu, a co-founder of Rutter API, a universal API aggregator for various types of business software tasked with standardizing all APIs into a unified format. They focus on two primary buckets: Ecommerce ecosystems apps, and fintech customers. Rutter lets customers connect their accounting, commerce, payment, and subscription platforms in a single flow.

A universal API aggregator is a great solution to scale quickly, and we covered the benefits of utilizing one in our previous podcast episode. Increased security options, ease of integration, and the ability to scale quickly are just a few of the benefits of utilizing an aggregator. However, on the side of the aggregator, there are still quite a few challenges that aggregators face in today's API industry.
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This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Gil Feig, Co-Founder of Merge, a company focused on building unified APIs that users can embed into their products and offer integrations to their customers. Merge offers one API to integrate with all HR, payroll, directory, recruiting, accounting, ticketing, and CRM platforms. During his enterprise engineering days, Gil noticed a constant need for companies to integrate their software with other platforms via APIs, so he sought to solve that problem via a concept called unified APIs.

We spoke with Gil to understand the significant benefits of a unified API approach and some of the downsides to help educate the community on if this approach is the right fit for your own API strategy.

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This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Wesley Beary–Architect of Engineering Practices and Culture, previously at Salesforce Technology. We originally reached out to Wesley after writing about the history of API Style Guides, as he played a key role in publishing one of the first open-sourced API standards. However, that was many years ago, and Wesley has continued to grow into a broader role at Salesforce after Heroku was acquired.

Focused on people, innovation, and learning, Wesley has been a part of Salesforce for over a decade now (including his time at Heroku). Using his technical background and focusing on API governance evidently led him to the organizational side of things. With hundreds of architects and thousands of developers, things can get muddled quickly without proper process, education and communication. And that's where Wesley comes in.

We’ve yet to have an episode where the lines of API governance blur with greater company standardization and company-wide process, it was definitely a unique insight into a very large scale way of doing things.

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This week on the API Intersection podcast, we spoke with Sachin Castelino, Chief Strategy and Transformation Officer (CSTO) at In-Solutions Global Ltd. This company provides real-time payment services to financial institutions and is now expanding that to merchants, government entities, and education institutions. And–they are also a Stoplight customer! Sachin has been at In-Solutions Global for over a decade, participating in everything from Hr, project management, tech, and product. Here, he speaks on his four tips and lessons learned from his time as a transformational leader that other program leaders, transformation experts, and technology experts can apply to their own technology transformations across their organizations.

Since the recording of this podcast, Sachin’s team has since launched their payments and services platform. Be sure to check it out!

https://insolutionsglobal.com/ 

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