Measure your API, and more

Last week, I encountered a YC backed project called OpenMeter. This is an open source solution to measure and monetize your API usage. If that’s your thing, there are a lot of similar tools in this space. Incidentally, around the same time I came across another strikingly similar project. But all of these models expect you to push data to their stack, so that they can crunch the numbers and present you the usage. Moesif, on the other hand, has a ton of examples to add their metering middleware to your existing API service. Guess you don’t have any excuse now to not measure your API usage.

The Kubernetes Gateway API was proposed as a next generation ingress and V1 was released last year. This video explains in layman terms the various use cases of Gateway API.

Many times, writing documentation is as hard, if not harder than writing the code. I was shopping the shelf for nice documentation solutions which fit the following criteria:

• git based workflow

• markdown or some variant

• ability to search

• ability to add custom domains in a free tier

• We can add API docs without breaking a sweat

Mintlify seems to tick all boxes above. I’m writing the docs for my SaaS using Mintlify and it has been a breeze so far. Give it a spin, and I hope you will start liking writing documentation again.