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How to Configure GitHub OAuth Authentication in DreamFactory: Complete Setup Guide

OAuth 2.0 is an industry-standard authorization framework that enables applications to obtain limited access to user accounts on third-party services without exposing passwords. When implemented as an authentication mechanism, OAuth provides secure single sign-on capabilities. GitHub OAuth offers several advantages as an identity provider.

Insights from eBay: How API Ecosystems Are Ushering In the Agentic Era

The rise of intelligent agents and AI prompts is transforming APIs from mere infrastructure into the capability ecosystem of the agentic era, driving a new model of ecosystem-led growth. To prepare for the inevitable explosion of agent-driven API traffic, enterprises are prioritizing a strategic approach to API governance, developer experience, and scalable infrastructure.

Keep Pact Tests Up to Date Automatically | SmartBear MCP Server

Tired of manually updating your Pact contract tests? Learn how to automate the entire process using AI agents with SmartBear MCP tools and GitHub Copilot! In this video, we walk through how AI-assisted contract testing helps you automatically upgrade Pact tests when new features are added to your API.
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Mocking PostgreSQL the Easy Way: Simplifying Testing with Speedscale Proxymock

Every developer who's worked with PostgreSQL knows the pain: testing against a real database slows everything down. You need the database running locally, loaded with the right data, and configured to match production as closely as possible. Every time you run a new test or build, you're forced to repeat that setup migrate schemas, seed test data, and clean everything up again. It's time-consuming, brittle, and hard to scale across a team.

How to Generate a REST API for Tekla PowerFab Data: A Step-by-Step Guide

In the steel fabrication industry, operational efficiency is defined by how well you manage data. Tekla PowerFab is the undisputed heavy lifter for estimating, production control, and inventory management. It is robust, reliable, and deeply integrated into shop floor workflows. However, as steel fabricators look to digital transformation—building custom mobile apps for site managers or feeding data into modern analytics platforms—they hit a roadblock.

JWT Rot: Why Traffic Replay Tests Expire #speedscale #jwt #trafficreplay #apitesting #testautomation

Are your traffic replay tests crumbling because of expired tokens? You've got JWT Rot! When recording production traffic for integration or load testing, the embedded JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) often have a short expiration date. Once those tokens expire, your entire test suite fails, rendering your valuable traffic snapshots useless. Stop wasting time re-recording traffic. Learn how to defeat JWT Rot and ensure your security and API tests run reliably every time!

The AI Governance Wake-Up Call

Companies are rapidly adopting AI, but it's not all roses. The excitement comes with significant risks, such as shadow AI, runaway costs, and security nightmares. This post explores the real challenges organizations face in AI governance today and highlights how forward-thinking companies are beginning to tackle them. Companies are charging headfirst into AI, with research around agentic AI in the enterprise finding as many as 9 out of 10 organizations are actively working to adopt AI agents.

Stay Vendor Agnostic: Using an Abstraction Layer to Navigate Acquisitions

The messaging and data streaming industries are constantly evolving, with major shifts such as large vendor purchases. If your company relies heavily on a platform such as Apache Kafka and you recently discovered that your vendor was acquired by a competitor, you are most likely dealing with a combination of uncertainty, budgetary risks, and technical difficulties.

DevOps Testing: Ensuring Quality In A Continuous Delivery World

In today’s fast-paced software environment, getting product features out the door quickly is the minimum. Getting features out the door quickly + with reliability is what separates high performing teams opening up larger opportunities. This is where DevOps testing comes into play, testing not just at the endpoint of the development + operations lifecycle but as an integrated process throughout every step of the life of the product.