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Akita Software Blog
akitasoftware.com · Company blog · on HN since 2020
Akita Software's company blog covers API observability, catching breaking changes from traffic, Go memory use, and its acquisition by Postman.
What HN saysCommenters mostly mention Akita as an existing API-traffic observability tool, with one saying devs they spoke to found it unintuitive.
21HN people shared it
7linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1Homepage6 people · first shared 2022
- 2Why aren't there more programming-language startups?2 people · 109 points · first shared 2021 · 148 comments on HN
- 3Drop-in endpoint observability for Docker and K8s2 people · 15 points · first shared 2023 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Stop API Bugs by Inferring Data Formats2 people · 11 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 5How to Catch Breaking Changes by Watching API Traffic2 people · 9 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 6Akita Has Joined Postman2 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 7Taming Go’s memory usage, or how we avoided rewriting our client in Rust1 people · 359 points · first shared 2021 · 219 comments on HN
- 8Catch Breaking Changes by Diffing API Traffic1 people · 100 points · first shared 2020 · 25 comments on HN
- 9What Drop-In API Observability Looks Like, Pre-Launch and Post-Launch1 people · 49 points · first shared 2022 · 8 comments on HN
- 10ChatGPT can talk to your AWS infrastructure footprint1 people · 27 points · first shared 2023 · 6 comments on HN
- 11No Spec, No Problem: How I Autogenerated an API Spec for Notion1 people · 11 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 12Source Code Is Not the Whole Story: Understanding Software Through APIs1 people · 10 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 13Test-Driven API Docs: Using Flask and Akita to Autogenerate OpenAPI Specs1 people · 8 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 14Drop-In API Monitoring for Quickly Debugging Customer Issues1 people · 6 points · first shared 2022 · discussion on HN
- 15Automatically Detecting and Documenting API Endpoints with Akita1 people · 6 points · first shared 2020 · 2 comments on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
ndimares · 2022-06-22
You could try Akita Software: https://www.akitasoftware.com/ who exists in this space, but anecdotally devs I've spoken to who have tested that solution haven't loved it (find it hard/unintuitive to use). I assume a full investment (Data warehouse + datadog and alerting framework) would be overkill for your use case?
This problem is something I've spent some time thinking through/working on addressing, because it does feel like there should be something easy & low cost for devs to use, a mixpanel for API usage as it were. If you'd want to talk about it offline, drop me a message. Best of luck!
tczMUFlmoNk · 2024-03-26
Is this comparable to Akita? https://www.akitasoftware.com/
> By watching API traffic live and automatically inferring endpoint structure, Akita bypasses the complexity of implementing and maintaining monitoring and observability.
> […]
> - Export your API description as an OpenAPI spec.
(Not affiliated, nor am I a user of either of these.)
lazyasciiart · 2024-02-01
How does your product compare to Akita? https://www.akitasoftware.com/
user3939382 · 2023-10-25
There's a similar, more powerful tool if you're into this
https://www.akitasoftware.com/
ctvo · 2023-01-11
Is the next step creating and updating these diagrams automatically? That dream seems to come up and die in cycles over the years, but it may be possible now depending on the compute platform and network appliances you use. This push to automate by doing interesting things, like reading your network traffic (https://www.akitasoftware.com/), could work here.
I'm unsure, as is, how you fix the organizational and human problem: It takes effort to initially create these diagrams, and constant work to keep them updated as systems evolve. How do you make that easier? A more fancy diagram explorer seems... not as useful.
qwertyzxcvmnbvw · 2023-02-10
Maybe https://www.akitasoftware.com/ could help.
digitalsanctum · 2023-10-25
FYI, Akita was just bought by Postman: https://www.akitasoftware.com/blog-posts/announcing-akita-has-joined-p…