5 Essential Tips for Creating API Monitors
As we have dwelled upon in a number of previous posts here at SmartBear, creating monitors for APIs you either provide or consume (or both) should be a cornerstone in your online quality strategy. Now...
View ArticleCloudy with Scattered Outages – Dropbox #FAIL
The more we leverage the cloud, the more we come to expect that we can get to our information (and everyone else') any time... anywhere. So what happens when we lose that access? Twitter explodes -...
View ArticleBoth Twitter and Facebook Messages Experienced Downtime This Week
On Monday, June 3, two major social networks experienced significant downtime on both mobile and desktop interfaces. Twitter was the first to go down, with features starting to fail at around 4:08 EST....
View ArticleThe Rebirth of Twitter’s API
Remember last year when Twitter caused a big controversy by announcing that their new API strategy would include a 100,000 user limit? Well, today is the day that Twitter API v1.0 is finally being...
View ArticlePutting the RUM in API Monitoring
Last week I was very fortunate to be part of a webinar on API monitoring together with Alan Ho from Apigee. The plan was to have a face-off between our respective monitoring technologies – Synthetic...
View ArticleOnline Reservations: Booking a Faster Tee Time
Golf is one of the most popular ways for Americans to ride out the dog days of summer. Spanning all ages and skill levels, millions of players flock to the game every July and August. Over 490 million...
View ArticleMaking Your API a Valuable Product
If you are working in any stage of the software industry – whether it be development, testing, operations, marketing, or some combination of the lot - you’re probably well-aware of the frenzied waters...
View ArticleTrust No One – Monitor All Your APIs
For fans of HBO’s cultural phenomenon Game of Thrones, you probably remember the recent admonishment Lord Baelish laid on Lady Sansa by simply asking “What did I once tell you about the capital?” In...
View ArticleTop 5 Application Performance Management Interactive eBooks of 2014
A round-up of our most popular educational application performance management resources of the year for IT/Operations and development teams, bundled in a super neat interactive, digital format for your...
View ArticleHow to Turn a SoapUI NG Pro Test into an API Production Monitor
At SmartBear, we know that ensuring API quality is absolutely critical in modern software delivery— we are after all, the creators of SoapUI NG, the #1 API testing tool in the world. As the creators of...
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