While incredibly powerful, one of the challenges when building an LLM application (large language model) is dealing with performance implications.

Learn the biggest obstacles with load test automation, and how existing user traffic holds the key to scaling eCommerce software safely, and fast.

Outsourced engineering teams are gaining in popularity and many investors have started to treat them as a requirement.

API monitoring is crucial for the health of your digital services. This article goes straight to the heart of it, addressing the tools, strategies, and metrics essential in spotting and solving API issues quickly. Learn to maintain and enhance the performance of your APIs, prevent downtime, and improve user experiences through effective monitoring techniques.

Figuring out what APIs are doing in Kubernetes can be difficult. Read the pros and cons of WireShark, Kubeshark and Speedscale and when to use which.

In the digital age, transparency and communication are key to customer satisfaction and operational efficiency, especially during downtime or degraded performance. This is where the importance of a status page comes into play, helping organizations effectively automate these communications, particularly through the use of status page APIs.

No, I'm not talking about 'OpenAI', though you certainly can use it to assist in your API designs. I'm talking about the OpenAPI standard, a modern spec for defining REST APIs. If you're reading this, I probably don't need to tell you that REST APIs are ubiquitous in tech. Practically every company has at least one, whether it be an internal or customer facing API. While other types of APIs have been gaining traction the last few years (GraphQL, gRPC, etc), REST is here to stay.

Datadog’s infrastructure comprises hundreds of distributed services, which are constantly discovering other services to network with, exchanging data, streaming events, triggering actions, coordinating distributed transactions involving multiple services, and more. Implementing a networking solution for such a large, complex application comes with its own set of challenges, including scalability, load balancing, fault tolerance, compatibility, and latency.

As you may know, StatusGator has two monitor types at present: Cloud service monitors and website monitors. Our website monitor feature allows a myriad of sophisticated configuration options including interval config, HTTP methods, and content or status checks. We’ve just launched some important improvements to our API for those of you using website monitors. Our Service show endpoint will now include configuration details for those monitors that are website monitors under a new key called config.

API requests are an essential part of modern software development, allowing applications to communicate and exchange data with each other. In this article, we'll explore what API requests are, how they work, and the various components that make up a successful API call.