API performance updates and new regions available

The_Moose

New regions

We're happy to announce 10 new datacenters, made public in the latest update. The new regions are:

London (England)
Frankfurt (Germany)
Toronto (Canada)
Dallas (USA)
Fremont (USA)
Atlanta (USA)
Newark (USA)
Mumbai (India)
Singapore (Singapore)
Tokyo (Japan)

API updates

Updates this weekend includes the following changes to our API:

/v1/billing/list_transactions renamed to: /v1/transaction/list
/v1/billing/list_charges renamed to: /v1/invoice/list
/v1/billing/sum_charges renamed to: /v1/invoice/sum

The old endpoints will continue to exist and work as normally for a few more months, but with a Deprecated: true header, please update your applications or let us know if you need more time.

Public endpoints such as listing of regions, plans and images are now using an improved caching mechanism, serving content from our distributed storage which means reduced loading times from about 200-300ms down to 50-100ms.

API docs now on git

To improve API docs we need your help, we therefore decided to make the OPenAPIv3 files used as source 100% open source and publish to Github temporary (Due to the recent controversies regarding Microsofts purchase of Github recently we'll consider the alternatives).

These docs where initially auto generated by a graphical editor and put into one large json file. We're currently switching to yaml as yaml supports comments and adding $refs to split up the large file into smaller files with a more organized structure.

The goal is to provide the best possible API docs for you and your amazing applications using our API.

Orson_Deforest

The_Moose When will the old deprecated endpoints be removed?

Kenneth_Crayton

Excellent 👍️ fast and reliable as usual, I also appreciate the new Arch and Alpine images.

Sebastian_Mannerheim

Good idea for the API docs, might contribute later. There seems to be a few deprecated functions, maybe those should be pointed out more clearly in the docs as well. Can't seem to find much info about it currently 🤔

Allan_Virtanen

Sebastian_Mannerheim There isn't many deprecated functions tho, it's the 3 mentioned above and the old functions for region, image and plan (i.e: locations, templates, plans). All of them still works after all these months.

Tommi_Nyman

Allan_Virtanen Thanks for mentioning this, I still got some of the old endpoints in my app 😱

Sebastian_Mannerheim

Allan_Virtanen Got it, also for anyone wondering they're now listed on the new website: https://www.99stack.com/resources/api-docs, good job. 👍️

The_Moose

Orson_Deforest No deadline has been set, we'll keep access logs of the endpoints and will start to remove the deprecated endpoints when it's proven nobody uses them anymore. After removal, the response code will be: 501 Not Implemented, although that'll be an obvious response we'll announce the removal in advance in multiple channels.

Orson_Deforest

The_Moose Good to hear, will update my endpoints tho as the new ones do make more sense.

BlueRabbit

Yay, more regions in Asia 👍️