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The latest News and Information on API Development, Management, Monitoring, and related technologies.

Understanding the API economy

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) have been around for decades, but although the concept emerged as far back as the 1940s, it wasn’t until the early 2000s and the efforts of eBay, Salesforce, and Amazon that really put them on the map. APIs today are ubiquitous - any company developing software will likely have an API for customers and partners - and research suggests the majority of enterprises consuming APIs are focused on strategies for easier consumption and management of APIs.

New API authentication Pandora FMS

Pandora FMS external API is used to integrate third party applications with Pandora FMS and now we will be able to authenticate against it using the Bearen Token. It is a type of identification through HTTP headers that allows that each registered user in our Pandora FMS server can generate its own identifier of unique correspondence to make calls to the same API. In today's video we are going to show you how to generate these identifiers of the users of our server and how to make calls to the API with this identifier.

eCommerce Load Testing (Step 3): Build the Environment

In this webinar clip from "Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes", Speedscale Co-founder, Nate Lee, explains what to consider when building the environment, including backend dependencies and data. He covers how service mocking can help companies test at a higher velocity in today's complex development environments.

Replicating Traffic: Use Cases & Benefits

In this webinar clip from "Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes", Speedscale Co-founder, Nate Lee, talks about why traffic-based testing (unlike manually writing script tests) can help companies move faster and test at the speed of development. He covers the top use cases and benefits of leveraging traffic as the new way to test.

How Modern Retailers Approach Software Testing (4 Steps)

In this webinar clip from "Ensuring performance: How major retailers leverage user traffic to validate code changes", Speedscale Co-founder, Nate Lee, shares how modern retailers are thinking about and approaching software testing in increasingly dynamic and complex environments.