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Client code may contain innovative or opportunistic usages that were not intended by the API designers. In other words, for a library with a significant user base, when an element becomes part of the public API, it may be used in diverse ways.<ref name="MendezBaudry2013">{{Cite conference |last1=Mendez |first1=Diego |conference=2013 IEEE 13th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation (SCAM) |last2=Baudry |first2=Benoit |last3=Monperrus |first3=Martin |year=2013 |isbn=978-1-4673-5739-5 |pages=43–52 |title=Empirical evidence of large-scale diversity in API usage of object-oriented software |arxiv=1307.4062 |doi=10.1109/SCAM.2013.6648183 |s2cid=6890739 |url=https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-00844753/document}}</ref>
On February 19, 2020, [[Akamai Technologies|Akamai]] published their annual “State of the Internet” report, showcasing the growing trend of cybercriminals targeting public API platforms at financial services worldwide. From December 2017 through November 2019, Akamai witnessed 85.42 billion credential violation attacks. About 20%, or 16.55 billion, were against hostnames defined as API endpoints. Of these, 473.5 million have targeted financial services sector organizations.<ref name="VentureBeat">{{Cite web |url=https://venturebeat.com/2020/02/19/akamai-cybercriminals-are-attacking-apis-at-financial-services-firms/ |title=Akamai: Cybercriminals are attacking APIs at financial services firms |last=Takanashi |first=Dean |date=19 February 2020 |website=Venture Beat |access-date=27 February 2020}}</ref>
==Improving Performance==
===Horizontal Scaling===
Load balancing - Distribute incoming requests across multiple server instances using load balancers
Stateless design - Ensure your API doesn't store any state on local servers so that it could be scaled up easily
Auto-scaling - adjusts the number of computing resources to match the current workload demand
Microservices architecture - Break monolithic APIs into smaller, independent services that can be scaled individually based on demand patterns
==Documentation==
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