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The Top 9 Apigee Alternatives

Apigee is a cloud-based API management tool. It integrates data from databases, warehouses, data lakes and SaaS services. It is a no-code tool making it a valuable asset for citizen integrators and developers alike. However, the platform was initially designed to build APIs for monoliths. It was not designed to handle microservices. Given we are in the age of digital transformation where microservices rule, Apigee may not be suitable for a lot of use cases.

The 2024 Guide to Testing APIs

API testing is a critical part of the software development lifecycle. If you’re not performance testing your APIs, you’re putting your entire system at risk. API testing is the process of verifying and validating the functionality, reliability, performance, and security of an API to ensure it meets its requirements and behaves as expected. This guide will discuss the importance of testing and how to test APIs.

Perforce Acquires Delphix

We are delighted to announce our acquisition of Delphix, a best-in-class leader in Enterprise Data Management solutions. I want to share with you why I am personally excited about this major milestone in our company’s continued DevOps evolution and the benefits this acquisition provides to our customers. Data is at the heart of how enterprises operate today and essential for successful software development, but accessing and managing that data is extremely challenging.

Essential Strategies for Optimizing Your API Architecture

Why does API architecture matter, and how can you excel at it? It’s an important question to ask as you are trying to improve existing APIs or write new ones. In this article, we will create a high-level roadmap to understanding the foundations of API architecture, from API Gateways and data management to architectural styles like RESTful and GraphQL. We will look at best practices to enhance scalability and security and look closer at tools that support robust API development.

Visualizing Ahoy analytics in Rails

At Honeybadger, we use Ahoy for first-party analytics in Rails. Ahoy is excellent for developers because it lives in your Rails application alongside your other data and code. Want to answer a specific question about your product or website visitors? It's just one ActiveRecord query away: Ahoy also works with Chartkick and Groupdate to visualize your data.

WSO2 APK's Distributed Tracing - Mastering API Efficiency

Uncover the power of WSO2 APK's Distributed Tracing capabilities in our latest screencast! Dive into the world of seamless API management with insights from popular tracing systems like Jaeger, Zipkin, Azure Application Insights, and OTLP gRPC. Learn the why and how of configuring distributed tracing in APK, enabling you to diagnose and resolve performance issues, errors, and exceptions efficiently.

What Is Electronic Design Automation? Understanding the Benefits and Evolution of EDA Tools

Since semiconductor design comes with complex challenges and high stakes – including strict regulations, tight time-to-market timelines, and an immense cost of error – teams need strong, trusted design tools. These teams turn to electronic design automation (EDA) software to streamline and automate chip design, predict certain elements of the design process, and test their technology as they develop it.