Mastering API Efficiency: Top 10 Strategies for Optimal Performance

In today’s fast-paced world, API development has become one of the most crucial skills a software engineer could have. No matter the language you write in, APIs are everywhere and play a vital role in the backend engineering of your application.

Rapid’s 2022 State of APIs Report says that 👇

• 70% of survey respondents expect to use more APIs in 2023 than the previous year.
• 40% of the largest companies — those with 10,000+ employees — have more than 250 internal APIs.
• 49% of developers work on partner-facing APIs (up from 44% in 2021), and 54% work on third-party APIs (up from 49% in 2021).

The importance of writing optimal APIs becomes even bigger when you count in the fact that there are whole businesses, providing APIs as product and charge money for it’s usage! This makes this skill even more lucrative!

For more insights into the API Economy & Growth in the past years, check out this article ⏬