Brail’s Blog

This is an exciting week for us at Sonoa because we’ve unveiled a new product called “apigee.” This is a new web site that lets you monitor and control a web services API within a few minutes. It works by acting as a proxy between your client and the back-end API, and it gives you comprehensive analytics for your API traffic, plus the ability to quickly add rate limits. Using apigee, it only takes a minute to create a proxy for an API and start gathering data. Over time, we’ll be enhancing apigee to provide some more sophisticated control policies as well.

If you have an API and want a way to easily see who is using your API, how much, and what kind of service levels your API is delivering, please try apigee.

apigee is currently in private invitation beta mode. If you want to try it, go to http://www.apigee.com/ and request an account.

Things have been quiet here for a few months, but I’m still writing. For the past two months or so, I’ve been contributing a ton of content to the official Sonoa blog, including a few video tech talks as well as blog entries. A few entries I can think of include:

• An entry or two, and actually three, about security for APIs.
• Some thoughts on API visibility and Twitter.
• The first in a series of video chalk talks.

Over time, I won’t let this blog die, but I’ll instead use it to cover some of the other complicated techy stuff rattling around in my head, and keep writing about APIs and web services on the Sonoa blog.