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API Monitoring is the process of continuously observing and testing APIs to ensure they perform as expected, maintain uptime, and deliver the desired functionality. This includes tracking metrics such as API availability, uptime, latency, and response times. Whether you’re dealing with a REST API, a web API, or a microservices architecture, it’s important to understand that monitoring is essential for detecting issues before they impact end-users.

This enhancement is part of Raygun’s 12 Days of Christmas 2024. Over the next few weeks, we’ll share daily updates on bug fixes and feature improvements inspired by feedback from you, our customers. These are the small but impactful changes you’ve asked for, designed to make Raygun faster and easier to use. Check back tomorrow for the next update and see how we’re leveling up your experience one day at a time! Our special thanks to Gwilym from the U.K.

In the process of developing software, designing and performing testing is a critical aspect of ensuring high software reliability, improving software quality, and deploying strong fit and function. The shift-right testing approach moves testing to later in your production cycle as a way of doing this with more accurate user data and post-production testing practices. Also known as “testing in production,” with shift-right, you test software after it has been deployed.

It’s impossible to learn about containerization without hearing about Docker and Kubernetes. These two tools together dominate the world of containers, both being the de facto standard in what they each do. When you’re first getting started learning about containers, it can be quite a challenge to figure out the differences between these two tools.

Today’s complex, dynamic applications demand rigorous resilience testing. A common hurdle is accurately mimicking real user behavior. This post discusses a possible solution: production traffic replication (PTR), a technique that captures actual user interactions to enhance chaos testing, and the principle of intentionally introducing failures to evaluate application recovery.

This enhancement is part of Raygun’s 12 Days of Christmas 2024. Over the next few weeks, we’ll share daily updates on bug fixes and feature improvements inspired by feedback from you, our customers. These are the small but impactful changes you’ve asked for, designed to make Raygun faster and easier to use. Check back tomorrow for the next update and see how we’re leveling up your experience one day at a time! Our special thanks to Andrew from the U.K.

Given that 100% of the databases I have interacted with in my professional career have been SQL databases, my data-based mental model (please enjoy my pun) has always defaulted to a relational one. However, when spinning up a tiny side project in 2020 (a bot to provide interactivity to my Twitch stream), my data-storing requirements didn’t call for a relational model at the time, so I chose a NoSQL solution: MongoDB.