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APIs have become the backbone of our digital world, with surveys showing that over 70% of developers plan to increase API usage year-over-year. They power everything from mobile apps and SaaS integrations to IoT devices and partner platforms, enabling businesses to deliver seamless services and experiences to customers. As organizations grow, however, so does the complexity of their API ecosystem.

Heroku provides a robust platform to deploy and scale your applications. However, inherent complexities within your app’s performance and user interaction remain obscured. Your app may be encountering errors and performance bottlenecks. Moreover, a lack of API analytics and API observability impedes your ability to truly grow your product. With Moesif, you can easily gain that visibility into your APIs on Heroku. It integrates with your Heroku app as an add-on in two simple steps.

APIs power complex and modern applications and in doing so they’ve also become a challenge to observe, monitor, and analyze. Even the apps we rely on daily consists of numerous services, each glued together by dedicated APIs that interact with one another in intricate ways. In today’s market, you have to make sure that API complexity doesn’t hurt the visibility you need to possess into your product.

Artificial intelligence has become a driving force behind modern innovation, helping businesses across all industries optimize processes and generate income. But how do you monetize AI usage effectively? Whether you’re integrating AI features into an existing plan or launching entirely new AI products, choosing the right approach can unlock steady revenue growth and strengthen competitive advantage.

Kong Gateway offers a fast, scalable, robust, and modular API gateway for your application programming interfaces (APIs), irrespective of your cloud architecture. Kong Konnect adds more benefits on top of Kong Gateway by providing a centralized platform to manage your gateways. However, even with such a powerful platform, you’ll face challenges in achieving that benchmark of API observability and monitoring to meet modern industry standards and therefore your growth projections.

Application programming interfaces (API) play a critical role in the digital ecosystem. This online middleman allows software systems to communicate with each other. But what is it exactly, and how does it work? Case in point: When you use an app to check the weather today, the API pulls data from the weather service and shows you the information on your device.