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View ArticleAPI Craft 2014 Conference Recap
The agenda. Earlier this week I headed to Detroit for the second annual API Craft Conference. Being my first time I didn't know what to expect, but I knew many of my fellow API design aficionados...
View ArticleMonitor and Test your APIs that use OAuth 1.0a with Runscope
API authentication schemes come in all shapes and sizes. Tokens, HTTP basic auth and OAuth are the most common that our customers use. Different versions of OAuth present different challenges though,...
View ArticleNew and improved options for programmatically interacting with Runscope Radar
Every team works with their APIs a little differently. Because of the variety of environments our customers have, it's important that we provide flexible extensibility options to make sure we allow...
View ArticleRunning a single API test plan against multiple environments
Every day we hear from Runscope customers who are looking to run the same Radar test against multiple environments. Sometimes it's "staging" and "production" environments, other times it's for a fleet...
View ArticleIntroducing the Runscope Radar Agent for Monitoring and Testing of Private...
APIs live in a lot of different environments. One consistent story we've heard from customers is how many private or internal APIs they have that exist solely behind a firewall. We've been working...
View ArticleIntroducing Runscope Metrics: API Performance and Usage Analytics
Some of your most popular feature requests have been for reporting and analytics -- specifically performance (latency) and usage (consumption) metrics. Today, we're announcing the release of Runscope...
View ArticleHow to Auto-Generate Runscope-powered SDKs for RESTful APIs
The following is a guest post from Adeel Ali from APIMATIC, a company that offers an automatic SDK generator for REST APIs. APIMATIC can import schemas/descriptions of RESTful APIs (WADL, Swagger, I/O...
View ArticleREST Fest 2014: APIs, Hypermedia and Moonshine
REST is a topic that always stirs up spirited conversations and ideas. Runscope Developer Advocate, Darrel Miller, recaps his experience at the 5th annual REST Fest in Greenville, South Carolina, an...
View ArticleRecap: API Strategy & Practice Conference, Chicago
The other week, while Darrel was discussing hypermedia over moonshine at RESTFest, John and I headed out to Chicago for the API Strategy & Practice conference. This was the fourth APIStrat since...
View ArticleGoing Native at Xamarin Evolve
Last week, Xamarin held their Evolve conference that centered around cross-platform mobile development. Runscope developer advocate Darrel Miller attended the conference and gave a fantastic talk...
View ArticleInsights from New Relic's FutureStack Conference
At New Relic’s FutureStack conference, Runscope was on the ground as a partner, sponsor and exhibitor. Over one thousand attendees came to Fort Mason in San Francisco to learn about New Relic’s...
View ArticleQ&A with Ryan Park: Runscope Engineer and AWS Community Hero
Ryan is a Principal Engineer at Runscope. Recently, Ryan was included in the AWS Community Hero Program. The program was created by Amazon Web Services to recognize AWS experts who go above and beyond...
View ArticleAdd Runscope Logging to Your ASP.NET Web API in minutes
If you are building an ASP.NET Web API and want a view into the HTTP traffic that is hitting your API then this is a really quick solution that might prove useful.Add a MessageHandlerIn your Web API...
View ArticleBuild a Health Check API for Services Underneath Your API
A running cat, in honor of National Cat Day. That's Oskar (click photo for original). Full attribution below. Monitoring your API's health and performance is something Runscope can do very well. But...
View ArticleCatch Runscope at AWS re:Invent 2014
Heading to AWS re:Invent in Las Vegas? So are we!Come by booth #731 to meet the Runscope team. Whether you would like a deep dive into Runscope's features, get your API/DevOps/Cloud questions...
View ArticleJSON Generator: Create Random, Structured JSON Mock Data with Finesse
Have you ever needed to craft mock data for API or script testing? Creating a single record of semi-realistic structured data isn’t that hard.. but do it at scale, with say, thousands of records can...
View ArticleIntroducing the On-Premises Runscope Gateway Agent for Capturing and...
Back in September, we introduced Runscope Radar Agent, an on-premises testing agent that you download and install on a host within your network. The remote agent appears along side Runscope's global...
View ArticleContinuous Integration, Deployment and Testing of Your Web APIs with AppVeyor...
Runscope developer advocate Darrel Miller shares a step-by-step instructional blog post on how to integrate AppVeyor (CI tool on Azure) with Runscope to accomplish rock-solid API testing. Photo by Alex...
View ArticleOn Thanksgiving, We “Pause” to Give Thanks and Introduce Runscope Radar...
Today, in the US, we are celebrating Thanksgiving. On this day, it is customary for people to express what they are grateful for, such as good health, great friends, certain members of the family,...
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