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GraphQL at scale with Azure API Management - Toon Vanhoutte

On Day 3 of INTEGRATE2023, Toon Vanhoutte dives into the transformative capabilities of GraphQL in scale with Azure API Management. Highlighting GraphQL's efficiency over REST and its widespread adoption by tech giants, Toon also sheds light on its challenges, from design to security. The takeaway? While REST dominates, GraphQL is making significant strides. Discover the nuances of modern API management in this engaging session.

Track Frontend JavaScript exceptions with Playwright fixtures

Table of contents Frankly, end-to-end testing and synthetic monitoring are challenging in today’s JavaScript-heavy world. There’s so much asynchronous JavaScript code running in modern applications that getting tests stable can be a real headscratcher. That’s why many teams rely on testing mission-critical features and treat “testing the rest” as a nice to have. It’s a typical cost-effort decision.

Does Your API Need a REST? Check Out GraphQL

GraphQL is a declarative query language that simplifies retrieving data from an application's back end. It provides a clear and comprehensive description of the data in your API, giving you the ability to request only what you need. This makes it easy to evolve APIs over time and enables powerful developer tools.

Introducing the Notification API

You'll often hear us saying "everyone loves a dashboard", and that's most certainly true, but nobody loves staring at a screen all day waiting for something to happen. Real magic is when your awesome dashboard comes to you, where you need it, when you need it. Over the last few months we've introduced a bunch of powerful features to make "taking action" as simple as possible... Monitors let you define the health of your data so you can see at a glance if something isn't right.

What Is API Management? Overview & Best Practices

Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, are rules and protocols that allow one software application to interact with another, and can be found everywhere in today's digital ecosystem. From the weather app on your smartphone pulling data from a remote server to provide real-time weather information, to the payment gateway service that processes your online purchases, APIs facilitate the seamless flow of data and services.

Turbocharge your API and microservice delivery on MicroK8s with Microcks

In the fast-paced world of software development, the ability to deliver and iterate quickly on APIs and microservices is essential. Traditional testing methods can be time-consuming and often slow down development cycles. That is where API and service mocking tools like Microcks can come to the rescue. Microcks shipped as a new community add-on for the recent MicroK8s 1.28 release. Microcks is a Cloud Native Computing Sandbox project dedicated to API mocking and testing tools on Kubernetes.