Blog & News
Feb 9, 2015
Just after 12:00 am on Tuesday January 27 th , Facebook.com went down for a little over an hour. Not only did this force humans to have to organically connect, the service disruption took down…
Sep 23, 2014
We're going to be attending and talking at the API Strategy and Practice conference in Chicago this week, so feel free to get in touch and come and see us. The topic of our presentation will be -…
Jun 2, 2014
Geekwire has a piece up about us in their Startup Spotlight piece this week. Please check it out. And, if you haven't signed up for an account yet, please do so. It's free to sign up and you can get…
Jun 2, 2014
Big milestone! We have now passed more than 5,000,000 tests run by our product since we started it running last year. That's more than 110GB of test data on a huge range of APIs stored in our results…
May 21, 2014
New for group level accounts is the ability to set different email addresses to be alerted when certain conditions are met for any of the tests in your organization. We currently provide alerts for…
May 7, 2014
We're really delighted to be able to announce this new feature! We've added the ability to see reference code for API calls you test using APIContext, just by clicking a tab. It's available for free…
May 7, 2014
This is one we've been asked for a lot, and it's available now for Pro and higher level accounts. We've enabled a variety of regional test centers for running ongoing tests against the API. The aim…
Apr 10, 2014
APIContext Announces New Partnership with Radius Inc. We at APIContext are proud to announce our new partnership with Radius Inc., a Kirkland-based next-generation technology consulting company…
Apr 10, 2014
This White Paper is published jointly from APIContext and OAuth.io - a copy can be downloaded from here . Please feel free to comment or contact us to ask questions. APIContext, WA, USA and OAuth.io,…
Apr 3, 2014
For our signed in users, and if you haven't signed up for a free account, you really should - you get much better access to the data, we've had a slight change to the database and we're now recording…
Mar 27, 2014
It's been a little while since we updated you, but we've been busy. There's a lot of new features shipping next month and I wanted to let you know about some of those. Firstly, we now handling…
Dec 18, 2013
Newly added features today, we're now providing users with statistical tools for understand the performance of their APIs better. This includes the following: Graphs based on raw results- so you can…
Nov 27, 2013
It's been a busy month here, so here's a quick round up of the news and new features we've got coming. News We went out with our Press Release that more than half of the services you need for your…
Nov 21, 2013
Not sure what's happening but Microsoft are having some serious DNS issues on their API calls for Bing, Bing Maps and Live services at the moment. They're not fully back up after 3 test cycles which…
Nov 21, 2013
Some nice coverage of our product in Programmable Web on the challenges of maintaining quality in APIs.
Nov 15, 2013
Suppose you're trying to decide between different location search providers for your mobile app or service. You're certainly going to look at price. But you also need to consider general speed and…
Nov 15, 2013
We like to stress that creating tests, even ones with authentication is extremely simple with APIContext. Between our Community of tests and developer setups, it's very quick and simple to create…
Nov 14, 2013
We'd REALLY like to know what happens at Bing every day at about 21:00UTC - the performance spike is interesting. It buries the real story about the performance of the 3 major search engines. Google,…
Nov 13, 2013
APICONTEXT LAUNCHES THE FIRST SERVICE THAT MONITORS ACTUAL API PERFORMANCE Results show more than half of these key building blocks of the web fail every week SEATTLE—November 12,…
Nov 12, 2013
One of the things we have noticed as we increase our test coverage, is that in addition to the poor quality of the documentation, there a lot of randomness in the errors we get sent back. Today's…
Nov 12, 2013
We've been working hard on making it very easy not just to test APIs, but also to share your tests and tokens too. We've now implemented the first set of features for community use. The first set of…
Nov 6, 2013
Google App Engine is having a bad day with problems around URL access. This is affecting all tests at the moment and causing fail cases. We'll get back to you when all is well.
Nov 1, 2013
One of the things that we are clear about is APIContext is not a load nor stress testing platform. We're focused on providing a close indication of the likely quality of the developer experience on…
Oct 30, 2013
One of the key features of APIContext is our ability to handle oAuth tokens for tests and calls requiring authentication. As we've rolled out our beta program we've found that there's more variation…
