Symptoms of Unstabilized APIs

STABILITY ENGINEERING – Volume 9 www.manhattanproject20.com 1 117-170-C Symptoms of Unstabilized APIs When Every Component Works — Yet the System Behaves Strangely For decades, API reliability has been understood through a familiar set of engineering concerns: availability, latency, authentication, authorization, schema correctness, retries, throughput and error rates. An API that returns the correct response, within its SLA, to an authenticated and authorized caller is normally considered healthy.