Crash Avoidance: Stay Ahead of API Problems with API Performance Metrics and...
Tests and monitors are useful for providing critical information that services are healthy and running as expected, particularly when notifications fire off when services are down. However, by the...
View ArticleMoving Beyond the Browser with JavaScript and Hypermedia
Despite their momentum, browser based applications are not killing native applications, and it seems I am not alone in believing that there remains a place for both. However, what does the client...
View ArticleAround the World in One Click: Monitor Your APIs from 12 Global Locations
As the cloud enables companies to reach geographies that were previously unthinkable markets, businesses today see customer adoption abound wherever people have an Internet connection. However, this...
View ArticleMicroservices, Monitoring & More: Join Us in June at an Event Near You
Photo from Monitorama. In our app-filled and services-powered world, having assurance that the APIs behind the scenes are working is not only important to your engineering team, it's essential to the...
View ArticleUse Runscope for Advanced Error Logging
Supporting web APIs can open a labyrinth of issues you need to proactively manage. It can be tricky finding easy ways to get notified about problems before your customers encounter errors. Plus, time...
View ArticleInnovative Solutions to 5 Modern Challenges: Insights from Monitorama
This week, we had the pleasure of sponsoring Monitorama, an annual conference focused on open source, monitoring and developer tools—all topics in Runscope’s wheelhouse. We were in impressive company,...
View ArticlePersisting Global Variables: Use Firebase to Programmatically Set & Get...
Variables allow you to pass state between requests within your API tests. For example, in one request you might create a new record, extract the new record’s ID into a variable, and then use that...
View ArticleWe've Got You Covered: Introducing Two-Factor Authentication
At Runscope, security is our top priority. We value your data and always make sure that it’s safe, secure and available only to authorized users. That’s why we’re excited to announce that you can now...
View Article5 Post-Launch Steps to Make Your App Successful
This post originally appeared on the Build Blog by ThinkApps. So you’ve designed, built and launched your app. Before you pat yourself on the back and move on to the next project, your work isn’t quite...
View ArticleIntegrate Runscope and Ghost Inspector Tests with AWS CodePipeline
Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Deployment (CD) are software development practices that can help to detect problems early and improve productivity. In a typical CI/CD workflow, each time a...
View ArticleConnect Runscope with Datadog for Robust Dashboards and Alerts
API monitoring is an essential component of any developer’s toolkit, but monitoring the data that API monitoring collects is also important to get fine-grained insight into API performance over time....
View ArticleBuild Synthetic API Tests for Single Page Apps Using Runscope
Our modern web applications are becoming more complex than ever, and we are building and relying on more tools and frameworks to keep up. For instance, a single page app sounds drop dead simple,...
View ArticleCreate API-First Web Apps with API Platform, a PHP Framework
Every programming language is subject to scrutiny, and PHP is no exception. While often pegged as an all too basic language forged some time during the Gilded Age, PHP has done more than just stand...
View ArticlePush Runscope API Health Notifications to VictorOps for Real-time Alerts
Getting informed the moment an API issue occurs is a crucial component of effective API monitoring. We’re thrilled to announce a new integration with VictorOps, an alert management system that allows...
View ArticleIntroducing Runscope Environments: Bringing Teams Together Across the Entire...
Since we started Runscope just over two years ago, we’ve been committed to creating a suite of tools that support the modern development lifecycle. API architects, app developers, QA testers, QA...
View ArticleFaster, Fortified APIs with Amazon API Gateway
Designing and developing an API presents a host of challenges, such as deciding on conventions, schemas, frameworks and tools, to name a few. Deploying an API into production then presents another...
View ArticleBuild Runscope Tests into Your Continuous Integration Process with Jenkins...
Continuous Integration (CI) processes allow software developers to detect problems early in the development lifecycle and improve productivity with automation. Jenkins is a popular open-source...
View ArticleHow to Leverage Runscope Environments & Streamline Collaboration in Your...
Our recent environments feature release represents the biggest foundational change to the Runscope product in more than a year. Runscope environments is a big step directly aimed at responding to the...
View ArticleDemocratizing QA: How Automated Testing Tools Empower Teams
We’re excited to have Patrick McKenna, Global Head of Product Engineering at Kurtosys, discuss the evolution of QA with the Runscope community. Sometimes I wonder how quality assurance (QA) got this...
View ArticleHarness the Power of PUT & POST: Fully Automate Your Workflow with the...
At Runscope, we don’t just love helping developers solve API problems—we’re passionate about APIs across the board. We built Runscope so that you can test any API, from REST to SOAP to everything in...
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