# The future of APIs

#### APIs and databases together, at last, for trusted, next-gen multi-party data sharing

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## There’s a better way to backend.

Buying databases and API services separately – and then plugging them together yourself — is costly, error-prone, time-consuming, and requires a team. To make matters worse, API services can’t “remember” anything, which makes managing shared data even more difficult.

**In this whitepaper, you’ll learn about:**

- The challenges of building modern data sharing solutions with traditional APIs.
- The evolution of “dumb pipes” to a smart API.
- How Vendia helps you build a fault-tolerant, scalable, cloud-hosted “smart API”.