The Challenges of Poor API Implementation in Mobile Apps
In the fast-paced world of e-commerce, ensuring a high-quality user experience in applications is essential. Apps play a central role in this environment, but when they fail to communicate effectively with leading platforms like Adobe Commerce, significant challenges can arise.
The Adobe Commerce API is essential for online sales applications. Enables the secure transfer of key information between Adobe Commerce and other applications, such as catalogs, inventory, orders, and customer profiles. This ensures a seamless shopping experience and real-time updating of data, improving inventory management and personalization of the customer experience in online sales operations.
1. Saturation due to unnecessary requests:
Misconfigured applications can make constant requests to the server, slowing down the entire system.
- Clarification: Imagine 100 people asking you the same thing at the same time.
- Suggestion: Limit requests to only what is essential.
2. Importance of cache in applications:
Without a caching system (a way to save information for faster access), the application may request the same data repeatedly.
- Clarification: It's like calling your grandmother for a cake recipe every time you make it, instead of writing it down.
- Suggestion: Use caching tools to “remember” data.
3. Additional costs:
Constantly requesting data generates additional costs.
- Clarification: It's like paying every time you call someone just to say "hello."
- Suggestion: Optimize requests to minimize costs.
4. Decreased user experience:
A slow app can drive away customers.
- Clarification: Nobody likes waiting in a long line.
- Suggestion: Conduct performance tests regularly.
5. Possible conflicts with other systems:
Too many requests can cause incompatibilities with other systems.
- Clarification: Trying to tune two radios at the same time would cause interference.
- Suggestion: Coordinate and test interactions between systems
