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Though invisible to most users, APIs are the backbone of modern web applications. Developers love them because they facilitate complex integrations between systems and services. The business loves them because integrating disparate systems to create new products and services drives innovation and growth. The challenge with this transformative connectivity is the dependencies that exist between systems. API failure can result in performance degradation, data anomalies, or even system-wide outages.

Today, we are super happy to announce the next chapter for Checkly with a $10M Series A round led by CRV, joined by existing investors Accel, Mango Capital and Guillermo Rauch. This investment allows us to double down on our prime goal: building the best monitoring and E2E-testing platform for developers. What does that mean?

Even if you write the fastest code in the world, you can still be slowed down by external factors. In this post, we will deal with performance monitoring external APIs and how you can prevent these slow APIs from slowing you down.

AWS Service Quotas helps you manage limits on the number of resources or API operations that are possible for a given AWS service. Hitting such limits could cause operational disruptions related to getting rate limited on the critical APIs that your applications rely on or being unable to provision additional AWS resources.

We've recently launched a brand new in-browser editor for our browser check creation experience! Browser checks are Javascript-powered Playwright/Puppeteer scripts that run on deploy or on a schedule for testing and monitoring websites and web apps. While this new experience centers around an upgraded text editor, it is much more than just that.The new browser check creation experience builds on the popular Monaco editor from Microsoft, which also powers VS Code under the hood.

Every IT team has its own strategies, goals and objectives to help move themselves and their company forward as a whole. As part of this, management relies on the metrics and data reports from their networking department to help signal if the effort is making progress towards those goals and objectives. The data for which lives within the tools and systems used by techs every day.

Adding an API Gateway to your application is a good way to centralize some work you usually have to do for all of your API routes, like authentication or validation. But like every software system, it comes with its own problems. Solving errors in the cloud isn’t always straightforward, and API Gateway isn’t an exception. AWS API Gateway is an HTTP gateway, and as such, it uses the well-known HTTP status codes to convey its errors to you.

Plenty of tools make it easy for you to discover existing APIs and create new APIs that integrate essential parts of your IT infrastructure. However, using an API to connect two or more assets doesn’t ensure that you get excellent performance.