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Google Proposes New Features for WebAssembly
This week at Google I/O, Software Engineer Deepti Gandluri presented a session titled “WebAssembly for Developers.” In this session she presented new features for WebAssembly which have already been implemented in the current version of the Chrome Web browser.
05-09-2019
Google Recommends AssemblyScript for Web Assembly Programming
Surma (Web Advocate at Google) today recommended using AssemblyScript in order to convert code written in TypeScript into the portable binary format, WebAssembly. WebAssembly makes it so that code written in C/C++ and Rust is able to run on Chrome, Safari, Firefox and Edge Web browsers.
05-08-2019
Facebook Targets Browser Queueing Delays With New isInputPending API in Chrome 74
Facebook has announced that a new isInputPending API it created is included in Chrome 74, the latest version of Google's popular Chrome browser, as an origin trial. The social networking giant created the isInputPending API to address the problem of browser queueing time delays.
04-24-2019
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.
03-21-2019
Google's Planned Update to Chrome Extensions API Causes Brouhaha
Google is doing some work on the API that helps manage Chrome extensions. Developments over the last few weeks have shed light on what the changes mean for developers, and not everyone likes what they see. Ad blockers are at the heart of the issue and changes to the API will impact them seriously.
02-19-2019
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
Daily API RoundUp: Smartcar, Chestnote, Vamp, Back4App, Threadeo
Nineteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including DevOps, Verification, and Mail. Highlights include an API that returns data about Board Games, an API for building connected car apps, and an API for contextual messaging. Here's a look at what's new.
02-09-2019
Daily API RoundUp: Threat Stack, ComEd, SigParser, openHAB
Eleven APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including Sports, Data Mining, and Networking. Highlights include the Threat Stack API for cloud security operations monitoring, and the Entity Digital Sports Cricket API. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
02-02-2019
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
Threat Stack Announces New API for Streamlined DevOps and Security Workflows
Threat Stack has released a new API that allows users to create security rules, send events to the platform, audit logs and more, all from within their existing DevOps tools. The company hopes that the API will enable DevOps teams to reduce the number of tools they must manage.
01-27-2019
ProgrammableWeb's Most Clicked, Shared and Talked About APIs of 2018: Application Development and Developer Tools
This segment of the past year's Most Clicked, Shared and Talked About APIs added to ProgrammableWeb covers the Application Development, DevOps, and Developer Tools areas. Tools and technology that helps make a developer's life easier, including APIs from Google, GitHub, and AWS, are included.
12-23-2018
Daily API RoundUp: GitHub, Fortnite, WillyWeather, Webix
Twelve APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories including DevOps, Testing and Internet of Things. Highlights from today include the GitHub Content Attachments API plus an API for tracking Fortnite data. Here's a rundown of the latest additions for developers.
12-20-2018
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
Microsoft Open Sourcing Edge Development through Chromium Project
Microsoft is moving to an open source development strategy for its Edge web browser. Not only will further development rely on contributions from open source developers, Microsoft will start contributing to the core codebase that was created by Google, and continues to be the core of Google Chrome.
12-10-2018
Parasoft SOAtest Release Adds Machine Learning to API Test Creation
The newest SOAtest release aims to improve the test creation process by enabling users to leverage their organizations' existing test inventories and train SOAtest's artificial intelligence engine using machine learning, so it can create API test templates automatically.
10-03-2018
Chrome 70 Beta Release Includes Shape Detection API
Google recently released a beta version of Chrome 70. In addition to updates to its Web Authentication API, Chrome 70 includes access to the Shape Detection API through a Chrome origin trial. The API allows faces, barcodes, and text to be detected within images found on the web.
09-17-2018
Postman Teams Now Available to Users of the Free Postman App
Postman teams and collaboration features are now available to user of the free Postman app. These features were previously only available via Postman paid plans. The Postman 6.2 release also includes Sessions, a new feature that allows teams to set variables that are session-specific.
07-31-2018
Google Promotes Chrome 68 to Stable Channel
Chrome 68 is now a stable channel for Windows, Mac, and Linux. The latest Chrome 68 release includes new features and bug fixes. Earlier this year, Google announced its intention to provide a "Not secure" warning on HTTP sites. That warning has been implemented in Chrome 68.
07-26-2018
Daily API RoundUp: DataKick, coinlayer, LaunchDarkly, Dexi
Thirteen APIs have been added to the ProgrammableWeb directory in categories such as Cryptocurrency, DevOps, Marine and Shipping. Highlights include the open product database Dexi.io's API and Google Firebase Cloud Messaging XMPP API. Here's a rundown of the latest additions.
07-25-2018
How and Why Meltwater Rolled Its Own Custom Testing Solution For Its API
This post will introduce you to the Synthetic Monitoring concept, which can make you feel more confident about your production system because you find errors quicker. It focuses on improving your Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR), and gathering valuable metrics on how your whole system behaves.
07-03-2018