Like most modern applications, RapidAPI Testing is built with an API layer connecting the backend logic with the front-end UI. In this infrastructure, the API layer becomes the critical point that ensures our Testing app is always available and working correctly. Recognizing how critical this API layer is, we use our own API Testing tool to not …
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What Are Microservices?
Microservices definition explained When it comes to building applications, there are multiple parts that work together within its software. Microservice architecture, or microservices for short, is a structural approach to building applications in which the parts work independently, but together. The framework allows for each individual function …
What is Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)?
Integration. That’s one big chore that keeps the IT and application development teams busy throughout the day. In a growing enterprise, new business requirements and increasing reliance on third-party systems are a standard norm. Therefore, integrating different systems and applications is a never-ending challenge for these teams. Enterprise …
8 Common API Error Examples and Use Cases
An Application Programming Interface (API) is a software interface that serves as a medium to connect computers and computer programs. APIs have become increasingly valuable that they generate a large portion of many companies’ revenue, including companies such as Google, Amazon, and Salesforce. Today, APIs have adopted useful features that have …
RapidAPI Testing GitHub Action now in the GitHub Marketplace
GitHub Actions need no introduction — it is a powerful, flexible CI/CD service that empowers developers to automate all of their software workflows. Over time, it has enabled developers to build amazing things, and significantly improved developers’ productivity. What’s great is that anyone can discover and utilize over 8,500 actions in the GitHub …
Mock API
What is a Mock API? With APIs, to mock is to copy or imitate. Mock APIs provide predefined API responses for client applications. For example, think of an application that has a database. We may want to create a mock API for that database that returns example data representations. Therefore, we can take a handful of common data objects from the …
The Latest RapidAPI Marketplace Updates (May 2021)
Today the latest version of the RapidAPI Marketplace is live for all developers! We initially released this version as a public beta starting on April 15. This gave us the opportunity to test the new version with approximately 4,000 developers and identify any remaining issues before the broader release. The latest version addresses common …
Top 10+ Best Chatbot APIs & Alternatives (2022)
What Is A Chatbot API? These APIS and chatbot API alternatives serve to provide developers with a pre-existing chatbot server. These servers give developers access to specially designed chatbots for a variety of platforms. With these APIs, developers can utilize the pre-built chatbots and integrate them onto their platforms as they see …
Top 9 Best ESPN APIs & Alternatives (2022)
What is an ESPN API? An API is an online structure that connects an application to information on a server. An application makes a request to the API, and the API returns information from the server in JSON or XML format. A sports-centered API can share a broad range of data. Team or league APIs give access to current or historical statistics for …
Easily Discover and Test Kafka Topics with RapidAPI
Today we are excited to announce the beta launch of Kafka support on RapidAPI Marketplace and RapidAPI Enterprise Hub. RapidAPI is the first API platform to allow the discovery of Kafka clusters and topics, viewing of schemas, and testing/consuming of records from a browser. Development teams can now discover all available Kafka clusters/instances …
Top 10 Best Ridesharing Apps APIs & Alternatives (2022)
What is a Ridesharing Apps API? A ridesharing apps API is an application programming interface that allows developers to embed rideshare apps such as Uber, Bolt, or Lyft within their websites or applications. The API uses HTTPS request methods to send calls to the server to retrieve travel information between two locations, usually within or …
Top 9 Best Color APIs & Alternatives (2022)
What is a Color API Color APIs are software that allow for the detection, extraction, conversion and storage of colors. They provide a common pool of resources in which developers can source for colors. They can do this by sending queries for color detection, extraction or any other utility. Users of Color APIs Developers - Different websites …
Top 7 Best Animal APIs & Alternatives (2022)
What are Animal APIs? To put it simply, an animal API provides developers with access to animal-specific information, data or photographs that they can use on their platform as they see fit. APIs, otherwise known as application interface programs, provide developers with pre-generated coding infrastructure that allows their platforms to connect …
Top 10+ Best Facebook APIs & Alternatives (2022)
What is a Facebook API? A Facebook API is an application programming interface. These interfaces allow developers to connect their platforms with important Facebook management features available directly through Facebook servers. The API provides developers with the source code necessary to connect, eliminating the need to code these features …
Top 10+ Best Astrology Horoscope APIs & Alternatives (2022)
What is astrology? For centuries, people have looked to the skies for inspiration. The basic idea of astrology is that the position of the stars and planets at the time of a person’s birth can predict traits about that individual. Expert astrologers take that birth information and combine it with the current positions of the stars to make …