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Firebase Enhances Platform with Emulator Tools, Data Analysis, and Performance Insights

The Firebase Summit 2020 is going on right now. The company has introduced several new features and updates to the platform, all designed to make app development easier. The main feature updates fall into three categories: emulator tools, data analysis tools, and performance insights.

10-28-2020

RapidAPI Launches API Test and Monitoring Platform

RapidAPI has launched RapidAPI Testing. The new offering aims to allow developers to create and manage API tests from development to deployment. It supports API types including REST, SOAP, and GraphQL. APIs can be added from RapidAPI Marketplace and Enterprise Hub.

API Management, Testing, Tools

10-23-2020

Flutter Expands OS Support to Include Windows

Flutter made a name for itself by delivering an open-source framework that allows developers to build apps once, and distribute that app across multiple ecosystems. Windows has been the most significant OS missing from Flutter's support. Last week, Flutter introduced an alpha release for Windows.

09-28-2020

GitHub CLI 1.0 has Shifted to General Availability

GitHub CLI 1.0 is now generally available. The goal of GitHub CLI is to bring GitHub to the terminal. It has been in beta release since earlier this year. Users can run entire workflows from the terminal, call the GitHub API to script actions, and connect to GitHub Enterprise Servers.

09-17-2020

Browser Access to Postman Now Available

Postman, API development platform, has launched Postman for the web. The new browser interface offers developers easy access and increased collaboration with others. In a press release, the company described the new product as “somewhat of a return to Postman’s original roots.”

Tools, API Design

09-03-2020

Google Releases Alpha Version of Jetpack Compose

Google has released an alpha version of Jetpack Compose. It’s a modern UI toolkit that helps developers build apps across Android platforms. It provides native access to platform APIs. Ultimately, the goal is less code, more interactive tools, and Kotlin APIs. V1.0 is expected in 2021.

Tools, Developers, Framework

08-27-2020

GrammaTech Launches Tool for API Usage Error Detection

GrammaTech, a provider of software application security testing solutions, today announced it has released Swap Detector an open-source checker that detects API usage errors. The tool aims to improve application security testing for DevOps.

ProgrammableWeb Staff

API Management, DevOps, Tools

08-26-2020

Red Hat Introduces OpenShift 4.5

Red Hat introduced OpenShift 4.5. It uses Kubernetes 1.18, and has a particular focus on stability within high scale operations. As expected, the new release includes a number of quality improvements and many new features. New features cover node based features, web console, and developer tools.

Tools, Infrastructure-as-a-Service

08-20-2020

Datadog launches Automated Error Tracking Service

Datadog, cloud security and monitoring platform, has launched Error Tracking. The new product automatically collects application errors in real-time. Then, it aggregates into action items for engineering teams to respond to. It includes automated collection and visualization tools.

Monitoring, Security, Tools

08-12-2020

IBM's OpenAPI Comment Parser Brings API Reference and Code Development Together

IBM has introduced OpenAPI Comment Parser. The new offering brings API reference creation and code development into the same environment. The theory is that API references will improve, and stay updated, if developers don’t have to bounce back and forth between their code and the API reference.

Reference, Developers, Tools

08-07-2020

Solo.io Introduces Gloo Federation Adding Multi-Cluster Control Feature

Solo.io has introduced Gloo Federation. It is the next step in the company's development of Gloo, its envoy proxy based API gateway. With its continued focus on scalability, Solo.io sought a better way to allow its users to operate multiple "Gloos". Gloo Federation became the answer.

07-30-2020

Firebase Releases New Productivity and Connectivity Tools
Firebase

The Firebase team has been busy. Since launching Firebase Live, it has been in constant contact with its user community with new products, updates, codelabs, demos, and more. On the product side of the house, Firebase has announced new productivity tools and connectivity tools.

07-28-2020

Cloudflare Introduces Cloudflare Workers Unbound

Cloudflare announced Cloudflare Workers Unbound. Workers Unbound is a serverless platform for developers with a specific focus on flexibility, performance, security, ease of use, and pricing. Users can run complicated workloads across the Cloudflare network and pay only for what's used.

Cloud, Developers, Tools

07-27-2020

AWS Introduces App Builder for Non-Coders: Honeycode

This week, Amazon announced the beta release of Honeycode. Honeycode is Amazon’s version of an app builder for non-coders. With Honeycode, customers use an intuitive visual app builder to create interactive web and mobile apps. The project has been in the works for years, and is ready for testing.

Application Development, Tools

06-25-2020

Flutter v1.17 Released

Flutter, Google's UI toolkit for building native applications for mobile, web, and desktop, has announced the release of v1.17. Over 3,000 PRs are included, plus increased performance and many new features including Metal support on iOS, new Material components, new Network tracking, and more.

05-07-2020

Shopify Launches API Health Report

Shopify just introduced its new API Health Report. It turns Shopify's change log into a dynamic tool. Using the API Heath Report, developers can check their private and custom apps for any deprecated API calls those apps might be making. The tool looks at calls made in the past 30 days.

API Management, eCommerce, Merchants

02-27-2020

Four51 Rebuilds and Relaunches OrderCloud.io Developer Portal
OrderCloud.io

Four51 has redesigned and relaunched its OrderCloud.io developer portal. The new portal was rebuilt from the ground up with key features including a UI designed for developers and non developers, persistent tabs, document searchability, and open sourced documentation available at Github.

Developers, eCommerce, Tools

02-25-2020

Google Stackdriver Cloud Monitoring Dashboards API Now Generally Available

Google has announced the general availability of its Stackdriver Cloud Monitoring dashboards API. The dashboards API is part of Google Cloud. It allows users to read the configuration for existing dashboards, create new dashboards, update existing dashboards and delete dashboards no longer used.

Cloud, Dashboards, Tools

02-19-2020

How to Craft a Command Line Experience that Developers Love

If you're trying to build a highly usable developer tool, then a proper Command Line Interface (CLI) to interface with your API is paramount. This article outlines what we found to be best practices among other CLI tools and developers' needs when it comes to building a proper CLI.

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Developers, Tools

02-12-2020

Postman Adds API Builder and Reporting Features to Enterprise Platform

Postman has bolstered its enterprise platform with two new features. API Builder allows developers to build APIs directly within Postman. A new reporting feature, currently in beta, provides insight regarding how APIs are used throughout a particular development environment.

Tools, API Design

02-05-2020

Google Shutting Down App Maker

Google has announced the upcoming shutdown of Google App Maker. Google App Maker is a low-code, G Suite development tool that allows businesses to fill gaps in their business workflows and operations. Google has cited "low usage" as the primary reason for shutting down the tool.

Business, Application Development, Applications

01-29-2020

CloudVector Introduces API Shark for API Discovery and Observability

CloudVector, API threat protection platform provider, recently introduced API Shark. API Shark is a free API discovery and observability tool. As APIs are rapidly introduced to public, private, and internal systems; API Shark automatically discovers such APIs when DevOps teams may not be able to.

01-27-2020

FreshLime Announces Customer Connection API

FreshLime, a customer connection platform, has announced an API for access to its platform. Through the API, users can integrate FreshLime directly into third party systems of all types: CRM, POS, Field Management, etc. Such apps and systems are enhanced with FreshLime customer engagement tools.

Customer Relationship Management, Tools

01-22-2020

API Fortress Introduces Mass Functional Test Generation

API Fortress, an API continuous testing platform, has announced Mass Functional Test Generation. Mass Functional Test Generation allows users to import OpenAPI files and generate a large number of functional tests for those files. The test generator is currently in beta release.

Testing, Monitoring, Tools

01-20-2020

CWT Expands myCWT to China Market

CWT, travel management platform provider, has expanded its myCWT platform to China. The omni-channel, open API-based platform is the first of its kind in China. China's travel market includes specific nuances that required some customization for the myCWT platform and CWT made the adjustments.

Travel, Air Travel, Tools

01-13-2020