Exception handling is a crucial mechanism of application development. When exceptions occur frequently, things like increased CPU time consumption, memory leakage, and application slowness have a higher chance of happening. In case of uncaught exceptions, the application's run time can terminate. If an application can handle various exception types, it will be more robust and less prone to crashing.

Uptime is great, but knowing that the APIs you and your customers rely on are functioning and performing well is a great burden off your shoulders. Our new Multi-step API Monitor gives you all the control you need to test for uptime, performance, and function of your API. Using our new Multi-step API Monitor, you can test everything from redirects and authentication, to sequenced API calls that require the reuse of variables pulled from the previous API responses.

When you run a small business, your site serves the same function as your business card - it provides essential information about what you do and who you are. It also could be the first point of contact with potential new customers, so it is crucial you keep your site up to date and give new visitors a good impression. Here are five tips that you should keep in mind to ensure that you present yourself at your best.

A short interview where Ryan Glass, lead developer on Downtime Monkey and director of Big Toe Web Design, talks about taking Downtime Monkey from idea to reality.