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What is API Observability?

Mission-critical apps that are deployed on the cloud drive today's modern enterprises, which in turn power their businesses. These applications' fundamental units are microservices, which tiny development teams created to enable speedy feature releases to the market. APIs serve as the ties that bring these microservices together so they can cooperate.

3 ways IT can secure open source software

Critics of open source software have long argued that giving everyone access to a project’s source code creates security issues. But in active projects with highly engaged communities, the opposite is actually true: Open source software helps organizations become more secure. That said, any piece of technology can be exploited.

2022 Intellyx Digital Innovator Award

Intellyx, the first and only analyst firm dedicated to digital transformation, today announced that Speedscale has won the 2022 Digital Innovator Award. This is Speedscale’s second year winning the award. As an industry analyst firm that focuses on enterprise digital transformation and the leading edge vendors that are driving it, Intellyx interacts with numerous innovators in the enterprise IT marketplace.

Announcement: Raygun Launches Public API

Today marks a new era for Raygun. With the launch our new Public API, you’ll be able to use the powerful metrics surfaced in Raygun in exciting new ways. This is our first step towards being API first, so watch for future developments. At Raygun, we pride ourselves on delivering invaluable customer-centric insights into the health of your software.

How Federal Buildings Are Converging Their Cyber And Physical Technologies For Futureproof Security

Since 2020, cybersecurity attacks have been considered among the top 5 risks to business health and are now common in businesses in both public and private sectors. Want to know how federal buildings are tackling the modern security landscape? Keep reading as we discuss how federal buildings are converging their cyber and physical technologies for futureproof security and how you can equip your business against future threats.

Using Playwright and Checkly to create an ecommerce synthetic monitoring check (no audio)

This short video shows the creation of a synthetic monitoring check using Playwright and Checkly. Here's an outline of the steps in the video: Note: If you’d like to follow along with the steps here, make sure that you have Playwright installed first.

Is Your Ecommerce Site Ready for Black Friday and Cyber Monday?

The holiday shopping season is one of the most stressful periods for operators of retail and ecommerce businesses, as the seasonal surge of holiday shoppers can put massive amounts of stress and strain on even the most well-architected websites. Here’s a recent example from 2021: The Office Depot website suffered an outage during Cyber Monday that knocked the online shop offline for hours, impacting the ability of customers to place orders online.