An API to the APIs

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Sounds interesting. I think you should put a priority on integrating payment APIs.

I am curious to know how you guys will keep up with different updates to different APIs. For example, when a new API comes out with new features, is your system smart enough to propagate through the changes automatically or you will be manually keeping up? If the latter, to what scale can you do this as the number of APIs you support grows?

Thanks for your feedback. We'll definitely put a focus on payment APIs. Each available service in CloudRail needs to be defined once either by us or usually by our community or the API provider itself. If an API changes, the definition needs to be updated as well. After that you'll get a notification and can update your integration as well with just a click. So to answer your question, it depends how fast the community reacts on changes or if the provider cares about the definition itself.

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