Why do we need SDKs to use any B2B SaaS Tool?

SDKs VS APIs

APIs are also known as Application Programming Interface, and you can think of them as the “passage” in which different programs, software, and servers communicate or talk to one another. Do you recall how SDKs were called the “brain”? APIs aren’t which means that if you were using an A/B testing software that required you to use APIs, they would still be dependent on the service provider’s logic in order to carry out user distribution and logic behind exposing what display to which user. This means that data and information exchange has to constantly occur between the A/B testing software provider and your server each time new traffic enters the experiment to decide which page he or she gets exposed to.

 

 

However here are some limitations in simply using APIs to integrate and communicate between platforms:

• Takes a lot more time
• Response only takes place after each request

 

With SDKs, in a short amount of time, the SDK is able to figure out if the user should be exposed to A or B with minimal loading time without communicating back to the Hackle main server for the user distribution logic.

 

What are SDKs? Why do we need SDKs to use any B2B SaaS Tool?