Systems | Development | Analytics | API | Testing

Get Real-Time Visibility into Your Apps with Performance Notifications & Alerts

Understanding the overall performance and speed of your app is just as important as avoiding crashes and bugs. SmartBear Insight Hub now includes performance targets to set and track specific benchmarks for your application’s performance metrics. This update allows you to define what “good performance” means for your app, whether it’s fast screen loads, efficient network requests, or quick app startups.

LLM Data Gateways: Bridging the Gap Between Raw Data and Enterprise-Ready AI

LLM Data Gateways are specialized tools that prepare and secure data for AI systems, ensuring better performance, compliance, and cost efficiency. They act as a bridge between raw data and large language models (LLMs), solving common challenges in AI like poor data quality and security risks.

Why a Unified View of API Usage is Critical for Managing Multiple API Gateways

APIs have become the backbone of our digital world, with surveys showing that over 70% of developers plan to increase API usage year-over-year. They power everything from mobile apps and SaaS integrations to IoT devices and partner platforms, enabling businesses to deliver seamless services and experiences to customers. As organizations grow, however, so does the complexity of their API ecosystem.

GraphQL vs REST: Key Similarities and Differences Explained

Choosing the right API architecture is crucial for building efficient and scalable applications and the two prominent contenders in this arena are GraphQL and REST, each with its unique set of characteristics and benefits. Understanding the similarities and differences between these two approaches can help teams make informed decisions when designing APIs. This article aims to provide a comprehensive comparison of GraphQL and REST, highlighting their key features, advantages, and use cases.

Agentic AI Needs an API Backbone: Cultivating Discipline & Governance for Scalable Success

For organizations seeking to leverage agentic AI, the journey begins with a steadfast commitment to discipline and governance. This talk underscores that the true foundation of success in agentic AI adoption is a culture that values structured API capabilities and a rigorous approach to digital integration. By fostering disciplined practices and robust governance frameworks, businesses can establish the resilient API foundations necessary for automating complex processes and scaling AI-driven initiatives.

Federated API Management: Balancing Speed and Control

As the need for speed in business can seemingly be at odds with the need for control, organizations developing APIs today face a critical challenge: how can you empower developers to build and deploy APIs quickly while maintaining enterprise-wide governance and security? More traditional API deployment approaches are often to blame for why API initiatives fail to deliver the promised benefits as complexity and scale increase.

Real-time API observability: Using Moesif and Heroku Together

Heroku provides a robust platform to deploy and scale your applications. However, inherent complexities within your app’s performance and user interaction remain obscured. Your app may be encountering errors and performance bottlenecks. Moreover, a lack of API analytics and API observability impedes your ability to truly grow your product. With Moesif, you can easily gain that visibility into your APIs on Heroku. It integrates with your Heroku app as an add-on in two simple steps.

Set the Standards, Stay Ahead: Introducing SmartBear API Hub

Creating APIs isn’t just about writing code – it’s about collaboration, governance, and delivering seamless experiences that empower teams and businesses alike. As businesses scale and software ecosystems expand, API complexity grows – introducing challenges in governance, security, and visibility. To stay competitive, teams need a unified, developer-friendly solution that ensures APIs are high-quality, discoverable, and secure from day one.