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The 2024 Guide to Testing APIs

API testing is a critical part of the software development lifecycle. If you’re not performance testing your APIs, you’re putting your entire system at risk. API testing is the process of verifying and validating the functionality, reliability, performance, and security of an API to ensure it meets its requirements and behaves as expected. This guide will discuss the importance of testing and how to test APIs.

High Availability (Multi-AZ) for Cloudera Operational Database

In the previous blog post we covered the high availability feature of Cloudera Operational Database (COD) in Amazon AWS. Cloudera recently released a new version of COD, which adds HA support to Microsoft Azure-based databases in the Cloud. In this post, we’ll perform a similar test to validate that the feature works as expected in Azure, too.

Essential Strategies for Optimizing Your API Architecture

Why does API architecture matter, and how can you excel at it? It’s an important question to ask as you are trying to improve existing APIs or write new ones. In this article, we will create a high-level roadmap to understanding the foundations of API architecture, from API Gateways and data management to architectural styles like RESTful and GraphQL. We will look at best practices to enhance scalability and security and look closer at tools that support robust API development.

What is AI Analytics?

Imagine your software transforming from merely a tool into a strategic partner that can automatically alert your users to trends, provide explanations of data with a click, and help you ask the right questions of your data-sets - in addition to delivering data-led insights. This is the power of AI analytics solutions for independent software vendors (ISV). Today's users demand more than just functionality. They crave intelligent software that analyzes data, surfaces insights, and empowers them to act.

Visualizing Ahoy analytics in Rails

At Honeybadger, we use Ahoy for first-party analytics in Rails. Ahoy is excellent for developers because it lives in your Rails application alongside your other data and code. Want to answer a specific question about your product or website visitors? It's just one ActiveRecord query away: Ahoy also works with Chartkick and Groupdate to visualize your data.