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How Postman can Improve Your QA Engineering Practices
Good QA engineering is all about automation and replication. In this article, we'll take a look at best practices in QA engineering and how Postman can help fill the gaps in your QA practices, including how to inspect API responses, test for specific results, and run tests at the right times.
4 days ago
How APIs Benefit the Commercial Auto Insurance Industry
The insurance industry, one traditionally very apprehensive of technological innovation is now seeing the need for an enhanced digital experience for its business technology consumers. APIs are seen as a technology that can help the industry in a number of ways that are explained in this article.
03-12-2019
How to Start Using Big Data in your API Trading Strategy
Traders have the opportunity to leverage the value of big data with their trading strategies. Most traders are accustomed to looking at price data to generate signals, however non-traditional sources of data can also be used to identify opportunities and eliminate inefficiencies.
03-06-2019
The Tools You Need for Modern API Development
There is an expanding set of tools that help during every stage of the API lifecycle. So much so that it’s natural to be overwhelmed by the variety of API tooling available. This article takes a look at a number of tools, each of which can help modernize your API development process.
02-15-2019
How Data Quality APIs Extend the Life of Your Contact Data
It costs organizations substantial amounts of money to not have a “verify and cleanse” solution in place for validating contact data. With that in mind, let’s examine some of Melissa's industry-leading, flexible Web APIs that help you achieve contact data quality in real-time.
02-14-2019
Take the New Developer Economics Survey and Win!
Are you the best developer in your city? There’s one way to find out- test your knowledge! The new Developer Economics survey Q4 2018 is now open until February 3rd, 2019 for all developers around the world who want check out how well they know popular languages, tools, platforms and frameworks.
01-29-2019
How userstack Delivers a Scalable, Real Time Cloud-based User-Agent API
This article provides you with a walk-through of userstack, an instant, secure, cloud-based REST API service for sniffing browsers and devices to parse the User-Agent string your customers arrive with. It's not exactly new but evolved from the well known and widely accepted UserAgent API.
01-28-2019
5 Questions to Ask During the API Lifecycle
APIs have a natural lifecycle and at times there is a need to close them down or transition to a new approach. Each lifecycle stage brings with it a specific focus, a single question that should be top-of-mind. Your answer to these five questions will inform how your API moves through the lifecycle.
01-16-2019
How to Design Your Algorithmic Trading Strategy
A trading strategy is a set of rules used to execute trades, which will vary depending on the trader’s approach to the markets. It is a key element to API trading and in this article, we will provide a brief overview of strategy development using principles of technical analysis.
01-08-2019
How Does Your API Security Stand Up Against the 3 Most Common Attacks?
By 2022, Gartner predicts that API abuses will become the most common type of web application attack resulting in a data breach. When you consider that the average organization manages as many as 363 APIs, it's no surprise that gaps in API security represent such a significant threat
01-03-2019
It's Time For Every API to Have an OpenAPI Spec
In recent years, API specification/description formats, most notably OpenAPI, have become more common and have helped standardize the once-murky definition of an API. This standardization allowed the creation of a broad ecosystem of tooling for auto-generated testing and documentation.
12-19-2018
Introduction to the ipapi Geolocation API
This article offers an introduction ipapi, a service that provides information about your website's visitors based on their IP address. Using the service, you can determine the customer's location, timezone, default language and currency and details about their network's organizational identity.
12-17-2018
Build Group Messaging Apps with the First and Only Group Messaging API
Application developers have integrated helpful bots and scripts into chat apps. However, there is one channel, with the greatest number of users, no one has been able to reach: simple SMS. This article shows you how the Bandwith messaging API allows developer to integrate with group message chats.
12-13-2018
How Non-Coders Can Get Started with API Trading
Many traders seek automation but don't have the coding experience to program a system by hand. However, many modern platforms bridge the gap between programmer and trader without requiring the user to code. This article will briefly introduce some of these solutions and explain how to get started.
12-12-2018
How APIs Have Opened Trading from Big Brokerages to Individual Traders
While we typically associate API trading with big brokerages or hedge funds running high-frequency arbitrage strategies, in reality, it's a broader market with many more opportunities for entry than most people think. API trading involves executing trades that are generally placed by an algorithm.
11-09-2018
Estated Upgrades Property Data API with RESO Compliance and Parcel Search for Proptech Industry
Estated, a leading property data provider, today announced the latest version of their property data API. Businesses and developers will now have access to over 135M properties and nearly 160M parcels across the United States. Estated now offers a RESO compliant Universal Property ID search feature.
10-29-2018
Why Decentralization is the Future of iPaaS
What if centralized integration services are getting it wrong? What if in the future, every service would come with integrations out-of-the-box? Every cloud service would have their own mini, built-in iPaaS, and apps from disparate cloud services would support integrations with each other.
10-29-2018
How Design Thinking Can Make Your Good API Amazing
Developing a software product is an enormous challenge, but it’s also enormously rewarding. This article provides a guide to design thinking when developing your API. It will cover what an API is, what design thinking is and why it matters and some essential API design tools.
10-24-2018
Storyblocks Stock Media API Brings Stock Content to Your Multimedia Platform
Storyblocks, the first subscription stock media service, has launched their Storyblocks Developer Portal. The self-serve portal allows developers to create test keys and try out the full functionality of the Storyblocks Stock Media API, from search filters to downloads. The Storyblocks API is the
10-18-2018
Should You Build or Buy Your Data Quality Solution?
The cost of bad data is high – from faulty insights, poor business decisions and lost sales to an annual cost of $3.1 trillion for U.S. companies alone. Melissa offers a white paper weighing the pros and cons of addressing data quality in-house versus an off-the-shelf solution.
10-17-2018