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Decoding the Differences between Embedded iPaaS and Unified APIs
This blog post delves into the differences between Unified APIs and Embedded iPaaS, exploring their features, and benefits to help you understand which option might best suit your integration needs.
Gertjan De Wilde
Announcing our $7.5m Series A
Today, we're thrilled to share some exciting news: Apideck has raised $7.5 million in our Series A funding round! This milestone is a significant step forward in our mission to simplify API integratio...
Gertjan De Wilde
Xero Integration Made Easy: Authentication and Accounts Receivable Best Practices
This guide explores the complexities and pitfalls of integration with Xero using the Python SDK and explains how to use some methods to manage accounts receivable.
Joleen Bothma
Exploring the Quickbooks Online Accounting API
In this article, you'll understand how the API works, how you can connect to it, and how you can actually use it to perform various tasks, such as automatically updating accounts, invoices, bills, and...
Naman Bansal
Paylocity Authentication and Integration Guide
In this guide, you'll learn about the Paylocity API—its pitfalls, complexities, and use cases. You'll also learn to integrate it into your workflow to manage your HR tasks.
David Ekete
A Tutorial on Setting Up and Using the Workday SOAP API
The Workday APIs can be used for various tasks, including managing employee data, integrating financial systems, handling recruitment processes, managing time tracking, and facilitating benefits admin...
Vivek Kumar Maskara
The Power of Real-Time Unified APIs
In this article, you will learn about unified APIs and, most especially, the power of real-time unified APIs and their benefits. You will also learn how real-time unified APIs differ from traditional ...
Daniel Olaogun
API Auth: Authentication Methods and Examples
In this guide, we will explore several common API authentication methods, including Basic Auth, API keys, OAuth, OpenID Connect (OIDC), Integration System User (ISU), Hash-Based Message Authentication...
Kevin Kimani
A Guide to Integrating with the NetSuite SOAP API
In this article, you will learn about the complexities and pitfalls of integrating with the NetSuite API. You will also learn about how authentication works with the NetSuite SOAP API and how the Apid...
Kevin Kimani
Extracting Employee Data with the BambooHR API: Practical Examples
This article explains one possible way of using the BambooHR API to retrieve employee data using Python. Having done that, you'll be able to use your existing knowledge to route the data to a differen...
Jura Gorohovsky
The Engineer’s Guide to Embedded iPaaS and Unified APIs
The means to integrate with software-as-a-service (SaaS) providers has become an absolute must in how we build systems today. The vast majority of applications rely on integrations with SaaS APIs to p...
Chris Wood
Monetizing your APIs: Tips for Large Organizations
Monetizing an API in large organizations is like vices amongst teenagers: They talk a lot about a given vice, but very few are actually doing it. Put yourself in any large and well-established organiz...
Chris Wood
Why Portman Helps with API Testing
Let's face facts: When you publish APIs, you need to test them - and that means really test them. APIs with zero-or-limited testing are likely to be unreliable, prone to failure, riddled with inaccura...
Chris Wood
Apideck is now SOC 2 Type 2 compliant
Being a provider of Unified APIs, Apideck processes tons of information on behalf of its customers, wether that’s customer information passing through our CRM API, employee information through our HRI...
Tom Schouteden
The Benefits of API Aggregation
The technology world has an ongoing love affair with APIs. The continued hubbub - both within industry sectors, as a way of opening the market - and as a means for bringing new products to market show...
Chris Wood
Comparing REST vs. GraphQL
In our API-heavy, data-driven world, applications are front and center when it comes to delivering exceptional user experiences. How services communicate fundamentally impacts how users request inform...
Tyler Charboneau
Reva: Validate requests with OpenAPI in Node.js
Validating API requests shouldn't be a hassle. Why write validation code by hand when we have OpenAPI documents that describe every endpoint? To address this problem we built Reva, a simple Node.js re...
Elias Meire
Build better SaaS onboarding through automated data imports
Building a SaaS product with great onboarding can be hard. Even though onboarding is a key component in sucessfully converting new customers. Find out how automated data importing can help improve you...
Tom Schouteden
Top 5 file storage APIs to integrate with
Need to connect cloud storage providers to your application? Here are the Top 5 players you can't ignore. Connect to them individually, or use our Unified File Storage API to get to market faster.
Tom Schouteden
Announcing the Unified File Storage API and File Picker UI
We’re very proud to add another software category to our growing portfolio of unified APIs: the Unified File Storage API. This Unified API makes it possible for software developers to integrate with...
Tom Schouteden
Why Apideck is a great alternative for Kloudless customers
Due to Kloudless' recent acquisition by Netskope, its existing Unified API product line will be sunset and customers will be forced to look for an alternative. Find out why Apideck Unify is a great al...
Tom Schouteden
Apideck Welcomes Tom Schouteden as COO
Apideck, a Belgium-based SaaS company that provides developer solutions focused on integrating, monitoring, and showcasing API integrations, today announced the appointment of Tom Schouteden as Chief ...
Apideck
An introduction to spec-driven API development
Historically, API design has been mainly implementation-driven. Nothing faster than quickly prototyping a few endpoints together before even thinking about putting together an API specification. Mo sp...
Tim Haselaars, PM @ Selligent
Portman CLI 1.0 - Better API testing
Portman leverages the full power of OpenAPI specs and Postman Collections for API testing. Covering use cases from integrating API testing into your CI/CD pipeline to uploading Postman Collections.
Tim Haselaars, PM @ Selligent
Abstracting API pagination across third-party APIs
Struggling with inconsistent pagination across APIs? Discover how we unified various pagination strategies into a single, developer-friendly API, simplifying integrations. Learn how we tackled the com...
Elias Meire
10 ways to build a developer community
Strong developer communities are fundamental to a thriving software ecosystem. By uniting programmers around a common subject, communities enable users to share ideas, progress software projects, supp...
Jake Prins
How to build a great developer experience
Nowadays, Developer Experience (DX) is essential for software products. Akin to User Experience (UX), DX instead focuses on improving the developer's journey, reducing hang-ups, and encouraging succes...
Nick Lloyd
What is an SDK?
Software Development Kits (SDKs) are very common throughout the development landscape. Most API providers offer SDKs to help support specific programming languages and app development paradigms, makin...
Gertjan De Wilde
What is OpenAPI? Introduction to OpenAPI Specification (OAS)
OpenAPI continues to evolve and sustain a vibrant, interconnected API economy. Here, we define what exactly OpenAPI is, how OpenAPI definitions are structured, and peek into some production implementa...
Gertjan De Wilde
What is a webhook?
Since webhooks are quite ubiquitous in today's real-time software architectures, it's crucial to understand how they work. Below, we'll explore webhooks, find out how to test them, and showcase real-l...
Elias Meire
My first month as a frontend engineer at Apideck
On the first of February 2021, I started as a Frontend Engineer at Apideck, a remote role at a fast-growing startup that helps SaaS companies build & scale API-driven platforms. In this post, I’m goin...
Jake Prins
How to promote your API?
APIs, like other products, need product marketing forethought. In this post, we'll uncover the hottest tips to get your API out in the wild. Thankfully, there are some pretty simple, tried-and-true st...
Apideck
25+ CRM APIs to integrate with
CRMs connect with various moving components, and integration is the name of the game. Therefore, CRMs typically open up with a RESTful API to integrate with partners. If you're in the market for CRM i...
Nick Lloyd
What is a Unified API?
A Unified API aggregates many APIs in the same software category, making integration easier with a standard endpoint, authentication, and normalized data. This results in a consistent developer experi...
Gertjan De Wilde
Apideck Product Update 🚀 August 2020
New in Apideck this month: track all your integration requests in one place; build native integrations at scale with Apideck Unify; launching Channelstack.co.
Gertjan De Wilde
Apideck acknowledged in the Forrester’s 2020 Channel Tech Stack
Apideck acknowledged in the Forrester’s 2020 Channel Tech Stack, launching channelstack.co, a Channel Tech Directory for all channel professionals to celebrate the growth of the ecosystem 🚀
Johan de Keulenaer
Apideck Product Update, November 2019
This blog post is the November edition of our monthly update with the latest updates on the Apideck platform. New features; redesigned landing pages, improved search, developer badges, HubSpot trackin...
Gertjan De Wilde
Building a SaaS application in 2019 - SaaS Blocks 🧱
Hit the ground running when building a SaaS application. Buy-vs-build is a daily dilemma for product makers. SaaS Blocks helps you discover and select new vendors to add features to your SaaS product.
Gertjan De Wilde
Platform Heroes - Teamleader Marketplace, Niels Vanden Buverie
This interview with Niels from Teamleader highlights the importance of integration partners and community building to drive partnership success.
Gertjan De Wilde
Apideck Updates and SaaS Ecosystem News, February 2019 🚀
Upcoming Product Hunt launch. New features; Shadow listings, Catalog, Zaps page, Drift and Intercom support. SaaS News: Google Docs API, Slack Block Kit.
Gertjan De Wilde
Platform Heroes - Jake Wallace, AWeber
This interview with Jake from AWeber highlights the importance of customer alignment when building integrations and forging new partnerships.
Gertjan De Wilde
Platform Heroes - Jean-Pierre Pequito, Intercom App Store
Intercom has one of the most active developer ecosystems in the market. In this interview, we cover the Intercom App Store and what they have in store for the future!
Gertjan De Wilde
Platform Heroes - Corey Hobbs, GitHub Marketplace
The Gitub Marketplace is one of the most impressive B2D platform plays. Corey Hobbs shares his insights into their way of work and metrics.
Gertjan De Wilde