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Integrate Runscope API Tests into TeamCity Builds with New Plugin From MANGOPAY

Hugo Bailey recently reached out to us to let us know about a new project his team created to include Runscope API tests in their TeamCity build pipeline. The plugin was developed by Bertrand Lemasle...

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Introduction to GraphQL

During the past year or so you might have heard or come across an article about GraphQL, especially if you're working with React. More recently, GitHub announced GraphQL support to one of their APIs....

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Announcing Microsoft Teams Integration

At the beginning of November, Microsoft joined the chat-based workspace apps with Microsoft Teams to compete with Slack, HipChat, and others. It's fully integrated with Office 365, and has features...

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Alert Your On-Call Team of Production API Failures & Anomalies with PagerDuty

When the production APIs that your apps rely on are down or returning unexpected data, notifying your team about these problems is a top priority. Broken services means broken apps and the faster your...

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This Fortnight in APIs, Release VIII

This post is the eighth in a series that collects news stories, helpful tools and useful blog posts from the previous two weeks and is curated lovingly by the Runscope Developer Relations team. The...

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Runscope Chats with API Thought Leaders at the API Strategy & Practice...

Neha Sampat of Built.io presents a keynote on day 2 of the conference, image from APIStrat. Last month, we had the pleasure of participating in the API Strategy & Practice Conference (APIStrat),...

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An Inside Look at 7 Standout APIs

Being an API service provider, we’re constantly on the lookout for how developers are building better APIs. As an API consumer—we rely on dozens of APIs internally and externally to power our business...

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View Your Most Important API Performance Metrics in One Place with the API...

When testing and monitoring APIs, there’s a lot of information to consider outside of just “is my API up or down at this moment.” That’s why we’ve updated the view of your API tests to provide a...

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Quickstart Guide to the Runscope API

This is part one of a series of blog posts about how to use the Runscope API. In this article you’ll learn how to get started using the API in less than 5 minutes, from creating your first access...

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Migrating to DynamoDB, Part 1: Lessons in Schema Design

This post is the first in a two-part series about migrating to DynamoDB by Runscope Engineer Garrett Heel (see Part 2). You can also catch Principal Infrastructure Engineer Ryan Park at the AWS Pop-up...

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3 Ways Subtests Can Improve Your API Monitoring and Testing

Have you ever wished you could reuse a set of tests and avoid that pesky duplication? Well, with the addition of Subtest Steps, now you can and it's as easy as pie!Subtest StepsFor starters, let's take...

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Global API Monitoring: Analyze Your APIs Response Time from 16 Distributed...

When your API is a core part of your business, one of the biggest challenges is ensuring that all your customers have a fast response time. Nowadays, even small businesses might have a distributed,...

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New Year's Resolution: How (and Why) to Give Back to the Developer Community

A new year has arrived, and that usually means new resolutions for most of us. One resolution that has been on my mind for 2017 is a simple question: how can I give back to the developer community this...

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Retry on Failure + Threshold Alerts: Optimize Your Team’s Monitoring...

"Cabled" by Alan Levine is licensed under CC BY 2.0 / Cropped from original Have you ever been notified of an API monitoring error late at night, only to find out that it was a temporary network...

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Creating a Setup Phase with Subtests: How to Handle OAuth 2 Access Tokens...

In a recent post, we announced a new feature called Subtest Step. Today, we're going to be looking at one of the most common use cases for it: creating a "Setup" phase to always refresh your access...

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Working with the Azure Storage REST API in automated testing

Authenticom's Logo This is a guest post by Chris Kirby, Director of Technology at Authenticom. He's a big fan of automating processes, beer, and games. You can follow him on Twitter, GitHub, and his...

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6 Common API Errors

Have you ever used an API that returned an HTML error page instead of the JSON you expected, causing your code to blow up? What about receiving a 200 OK status code with a cryptic error message in...

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Tutorial: Continuous Integration with Runscope API Tests and Codeship

A part of an engineer's toolbox is a good automation workflow. One of the tools in that box is a Continuous Integration provider, which can help teams prevent integration problems and improve quality...

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How Trustpilot Tests and Monitors 200 Microservices

Trustpilot's journey with Runscope began back in 2015. They started off with our free trial plan, and have since grown to almost 5 million test runs a month. They were kind enough to chat with us...

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Tutorial: Introduction to Monitoring SOAP APIs

The SOAP vs. REST debate might have ended with REST as the clear winner in adoption for the most recent years, especially when we're talking about public APIs. However, SOAP APIs are still available...

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