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Using context.Context to mock API clients

We've found a pattern to mock external client libraries while keeping code simple, reducing the number of injection spots and ensuring all the code down a callstack uses the same mock client. Establishing patterns like these is what makes test suites great, and improves developer productivity when writing tests. Here's how it works.

Graph Observability: Honeycomb and Apollo GraphQL With OpenTelemetry

With David Pickavance, Senior Sales Engineer at Apollo GraphQL Learn how to use Honeycomb, Apollo Studio, and Open Telemetry to optimize GraphQL performance for a federated graph. See how to debug a federated GraphQL query across subgraphs and down to the database layer using Honeycomb.

AWS outage leaves millions in the dark, points to need for better API monitoring

Millions of users of popular apps, such as Facebook, Ring, Alexa, Disney+, and more were left scratching their heads wondering when they would be back online due to a widespread Amazon Web Services (AWS) outage Tuesday. The outages were centered on a number of core AWS services in the US-EAST-1 Region, including increased API error rates with Amazon DynamoDB, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud and Amazon Connect, which handles contact center calls. — AWS Service Health Dashboard

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Service Mocks: Scaling a SaaS Demo with Traffic Replay

Building, running and scaling SaaS demo systems that run around the clock is a big engineering challenge. Through the power of traffic replay, we scaled our demos in a huge way. A few weeks ago we launched a new demo sandbox. This is actually a second generation version of our existing demo system that I built a few months ago (codename: decoy). Because the traffic viewer page shows the most recent data by default, you need to constantly be pumping new data in there. Any type of real-time SaaS system is going to have a similar requirement. So this needs to be planned.

Getting Started with the InfluxDB 2.0 API and Postman

Whether you’re using InfluxDB Cloud or InfluxDB OSS, the InfluxDB API provides a simple way to interact with your InfluxDB instance. The InfluxDB v2.0 API offers a unified approach to querying, writing data to, and assessing the health of your InfluxDB instances. Today we want to share a Postman project to help you use the API easily. Postman is “an API platform for building and using APIs”.

What are Webhooks and why do they matter to SCOM?

A Webhook is an API that delivers data from applications when an action or event occurs. When an event is triggered within the source site, it is seen by the Webhook, which collects the data and sends it to the desired application or URL in the form of an HTTP request. Webhooks are also instant, triggering the delivery of data in real-time, this makes them faster and easier to implement than other methods, like polling.

Deploy Friday: E82 Enabling conversation - the design and linguistics of API documentation

APIs enable conversations, but how do you choose the right words for those conversations? We talk with three powerhouse technical writers and documentation managers, from Platform.sh, Splunk, and Sitecore, to get the best practices and frameworks behind world-class documentation.

How to rename an API Connection thru the Azure Portal

Starting building Logic Apps thru the Azure Portal is, without a doubt, the most intuitive and fast approach. It doesn’t require any additional tool or software, it doesn’t require a Visual Studio license, and almost all beginner tutorials or documentation use this approach. And finally, all types of users are familiar with the Azure Portal. But not everything is perfect, and one of the most difficult best practices to implement is a proper API Connection naming convention.