
The Cost of Honest Data: Null Handling in Financial APIs
Why our benchmark endpoint returns null instead of "0th percentile" when the peer cohort lacks data — and why we think most financial APIs get this wrong.
VynCo Engineering5 min read4/17/2026
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Why our benchmark endpoint returns null instead of "0th percentile" when the peer cohort lacks data — and why we think most financial APIs get this wrong.

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