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APIs sit at the core of modern applications. They power mobile apps, connect microservices, and enable third-party integrations, making them critical to performance, reliability, and revenue. That’s why most teams invest heavily in API testing tools like Postman, automated test suites, and online API testers. And yet, production outages still happen. This disconnect (“our APIs were tested, so why did they fail?”) is where confusion between API testing and Web API monitoring begins.

OAuth 2.0 is often treated as a solved security problem; configured once, then forgotten. In reality, OAuth-based authentication is one of the most fragile dependencies in modern API ecosystems. When OAuth breaks, APIs don’t just degrade gracefully; they often fail completely. For DevOps and engineering teams, OAuth 2.0 authentication sits before application logic, before business rules, and before observability inside the service itself.

Postman API test automation is a critical part of modern API development. Teams rely on Postman collections, scripts, and automated tests to validate endpoints, catch functional issues early, and ensure APIs behave correctly during development and CI/CD pipelines. But as APIs move into production, test automation alone leaves important gaps.

Over the past year, Harness’s India organization has entered a new phase of growth – one defined not just by scale, but by increasing technical depth and impact. What began as steady expansion has turned into real momentum across engineering, product, and operations. Today, 480 people work in India, contributing across every major product area. In 2025 alone, the team in India grew by more than 75%, and now each core Harness product offering has a strong engineering presence in the region.

This blog post is based on a live presentation by Guillaume at a SymfonyCon 2023 on deploying applications with the Upsun platform-as-a-service. We utilized AI tools for transcription and to enhance the structure and clarity of the content. If you still use File Transfer Protocol (FTP) for deployment, this post is for you.

The StatusGator API continues to expand with new end points to help support the wide variety of use cases our customers have. We just released two new APIs: In case you missed, it component filtering is one of StatusGator’s most important features, allowing you to filter your service monitor to just the specific products, regions, or features you use. It’s an essential setup step that helps minimize noise.