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Solutions to Common API Issues With Megaport

With automation pervading the networking world in recent years, APIs have become standard for software and IT specialists. While the jury is out on the exact number of public APIs offered today, all estimates point to their massive (and ever-growing) popularity. Megaport is one of the many thousands of vendors that provides public API access to all our services, enabling our customers to automate and streamline their deployments.

An in-depth guide to monitoring Next.js apps with OpenTelemetry

This guide goes into the fundamentals, practical applications and tips & tricks of using OpenTelemetry (OTel) to monitor your Next.js application. OpenTelemetry is gaining (a lot) of momentum outside of its historical niche of distributed, micro services based application stacks. But, as it turns out you can just as well use it for more traditional, three tiered, web applications and it comes with a host of benefits.

API monitoring with Traefik, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry (Grafana Office Hours #28)

Maytham Alfouadi (Solutions Architect) and Immánuel Fodor (Product Manager) from Traefik Labs give us a demonstration of how to do API monitoring with Traefik, Grafana, and OpenTelemetry. They talk about Traefik, an open-source reverse proxy, among other things, that is now included by default in k3s and Rancher. They are joined by Usman Ahmad and Nicole van der Hoeven, both Senior Developer Advocates at Grafana Labs.

Why "page.goto()" is slowing down your tests

In this video, we dive into Playwright's "page.goto()" and understand why it could be slowing down your end-to-end tests. We start with an example script and then walk you through the Playwright UI mode to understand how resource loading can delay the "page.goto()" call. We also look into the different "waitUntil" configurations and check how they affect the speed of your tests. Enjoy, and drop any questions or comments below!

Why "page.goto()" is slowing down your Playwright tests

When you invest time and effort into creating a well-running end-to-end test suite or adopt Playwright synthetic monitoring with Checkly, you should focus on two things. Your tests must be stable because few things are worse than an unreliable test suite. But also, your tests must be fast because no one wants to wait hours to receive the green light when you're on the edge of your seat to deploy this critical production hotfix.

Debug Third-Party APIs with Requests

The internet is basically just a bunch of websites calling each other. You make a call to some service, that service calls you back, and then that service goes down and ruins your afternoon. Requests, our latest addition to Insights, is a place to see, understand, track, and improve the behavior of outgoing HTTP requests.

5 common travel API integration mistakes to avoid

Travel businesses all around the world heavily rely on APIs in their daily work: they provide real-time inventory data, allow for seamless bookings, and enhance travel websites' functionality in general. APIs have become the backbone of the industry as a whole, which makes integrating them correctly extremely important for almost any travel company.