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Using Google Sheets and Runscope to Run API Tests with Multiple Variable Sets

We frequently run into users who are looking to run an API test multiple times, using a variety of initial variables. For example, the user might be looking to:Test the same request against a list of...

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OpenAPI / Swagger Resource List for API Developers

   What is the OpenAPI / Swagger Specification?The OpenAPI Specification, formerly known as Swagger Specification, is a simple yet powerful way of describing RESTful APIs, in a machine and human...

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Ensuring Microservices Success: Key Things to Consider

This is the first post in our Featured Guest Series! Janet Wagner shares eight tips on how your company can ensure success when moving to a microservices architecture.If you're interested in being a...

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You Might Not Need GraphQL

This is the second post in our Featured Guest Series! Phil Sturgeon takes a look at some GraphQL features and shares different ways to implement them for your endpoint-based APIs.If you're interested...

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Monolith to Microservices: Transforming a web-scale, real-world e-commerce...

This is the third post in our Featured Guest Series! Kristen Womack shares the story of the transformation Best Buy went through when moving from a monolithic application to a microservices...

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4 Methods to Make Your API Truly Discoverable

This is the fourth post in our Featured Guest Series! Bill Doerrfeld shares 4 key techniques that API advocates and product owners can use to increase their APIs discoverability. If you're interested...

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Storing API Test Results to a Database with Eventn and Runscope

A common requirement for Runscope users is to save and analyze test results for alerting, building custom dashboards, and other analytical purposes. One way to do that is to pipe all your test results...

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Building a Steam Powered IoT API with Thingsboard

This is the fifth and final post in our Featured Guest Series! Joshua Curry shares his experience building an IoT project with a steam engine, Thingsboard, Raspberry Pis, and Runscope.If you're...

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Monitoring API Performance with the New API Metrics Endpoint

We have a new endpoint available for the Runscope API! Now you can retrieve your API tests performance metrics for each individual test, keep a pulse on your API's performance over time, and create...

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3 Easy Steps to Cloud Operational Excellence

This is a guest post by Bruce Wang and Glen Semino from SYNQ, a video API built for developers. In this post, they explain the tools and processes they use to keep the company's API operations running...

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Tutorial: Continuous Integration with CircleCI and Runscope API Tests

CircleCI is a popular Continuous Integration and Delivery solution (used by Facebook, Kickstarter, Spotify), and integrating it with Runscope Trigger URL tests so you can run your Runscope API tests...

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Making Requests to the AWS API with Signature Version 4 and Script Libraries

We recently had a customer that wanted to test and monitor a few endpoints for the AWS API. For security reasons, most requests to AWS APIs have to be signed using their Signature Version 4 signing...

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Copying Runscope Environments using the Runscope API

The Runscope UI provides a lot of flexibility for our customers to monitor and test APIs. You can easily manage the tests you have written, whether that means exporting them, duplicating them, or...

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Tutorial: Integrating Runscope with New Relic Insights

New Relic Insights is a real-time analytics platform that collects event and metric data from other New Relic products, and also third-party integrations. By connecting New Relic Insights with...

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Debugging SSL Errors in Your API Monitoring

When working with external or internal APIs, a million things can make it return errors: missing HTTP headers, sending an invalid authorization credential because you forgot to append "Bearer" to your...

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Tutorial - Converting your Swagger 2.0 API Definition to OpenAPI 3.0

   At the end of July, the OpenAPI Specification 3.0.0 was finally released by the Open API Initiative. It's a major release, and after 3 years in the making, it brings about a lot of improvements over...

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Playing with Node.js and the Runscope API on Glitch

 logo-day I've been wanting to create a project on Glitch for quite some time. Glitch is a startup/product/friendly community where you can create and remix Node.js projects, use an online code editor...

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Runscope is Joining CA Technologies!

Today I’m excited to announce that Runscope has been acquired by CA Technologies. We’re bringing our market-leading API monitoring tools to CA to further our shared mission of equipping developers...

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How to Sync your OpenAPI Schema in Stoplight with GitHub and Runscope

This is a post from our Featured Guest Series! Glen Semino shows how to combine Stoplight and GitHub APIs with Runscope to keep your OpenAPI Schema always versioned and up to date.If you're interested...

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Design Thinking and Wicked Problems for APIs

This is a post from our Featured Guest Series! Ash Hathaway shares her experience as a former developer turned product manager for APIs, and how design thinking has helped her team solves difficult...

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