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How API Monitoring relates to tracking your health & stocks #APIMonitoring #Observability #ipm

In our everyday lives, people monitor various aspects like heart rate, step count, and stock performance to detect any unusual changes. The same concept applies to API monitoring. By continuously tracking and collecting measurements, teams can establish benchmarks and quickly identify deviations from the norm. This proactive approach helps detect and resolve issues, ensuring services perform at their expected level.

Intro to proxymock, a free traffic-based service mocking tool within VS Code.

Speedscale's proxymock is a free VS Code plugin that passively listens to transactions, so developers can replay past responses or inbound transactions like a time machine. Past transactions can serve as non-rate-limited service mocks, editable databases, or even regression/load/chaos tests. Building service mocks to serve as service virtualization/mocks can be time consuming and manual. Maintaining complex, shared environments for engineering incurs expensive cloud costs and aren't often accurate.

What Is API Monitoring?

Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the James Bonds of software, silently keeping everything running smoothly while sipping martinis (shaken, not stirred). They’re the vital communication channels that enable different software systems to interact seamlessly, making sure your online shopping carts don’t mysteriously empty and your social media feeds keep you endlessly entertained with cat videos.

Stay ahead of service disruptions with Watchdog Cloud & API Outage Detection

Even with the best monitoring in place, outages are unavoidable. Complex, modern IT environments rely on multiple third-party services, including critical cloud and API providers, and when any one of those goes down, it can trigger a domino effect of increased error rates and latency spikes across your system. And, because you don’t have as much visibility into external services, it can be difficult to identify that the problem is due to an outside outage or disrupted service.

Understanding API Keys and Tokens: Secure Management and Best Practices

APIs (Application Programming Interfaces) are the foundation of applications, facilitating communication between different services. To authenticate and secure these interactions, API keys and tokens play a vital role. However, improperly managing these sensitive credentials can lead to security vulnerabilities. In this blog, we will explore what API keys and tokens are, how to securely manage them, and best practices to use them across services while avoiding exposure.
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Python Observability : A Complete Guide

Observability is a critical element of modern software development, unlocking awareness across complex and distributed systems with ease. This has allowed developers to monitor, understand, and debug their applications effectively, leveraging existing resources for more efficient lifecycle management and iteration. In the context of Python, observability is an engine for boosting and maintaining the performance, reliability, and stability of the implementation. In this guide, we're going to look at the key aspects of building and deploying Python observability, the importance of this process, and the tools available to implement it.

How to Run Playwright Test in "Parallel," "Serial," or "Default" Mode

Join Stefan Judis, Playwright Ambassador, as he looks into different Playwright test order execution modes. Learn how to effectively use the "fullyParallel" option and understand the differences between "parallel", "serial" and "default" test case execution. If you have questions or feedback, drop a comment below! And don't forget to subscribe for more Playwright tips!