Surveys published in December 2019 by Kong and Postman shed new light on the challenges of creating and managing an application programming interface (API) as opposed to just consuming APIs.
The effort needed to provide an API is significant, with 63% of the over 10,000 people surveyed for the “2019 Postman State of the API Report” spending at least 10 hours a week working on APIs. The figure goes to 74% among the backend engineers surveyed, with 35% saying they actually spend more than 20 hours a week. Only 17% of front-end developers spend 20+ hours on APIs, which shows that APIs are a key component of the back-end.
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