The unified communications space is seeing an explosion of critical applications as hybrid work and the move to the cloud becomes more and more prominent. Poly, a market leader that provides premium audio and video products, is helping lead the movement with offerings like private video conferencing software Poly Clariti and cloud-based device …
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RapidAPI Studio: Bringing All Your APIs and Development Needs Together in One Place
Building, testing, publishing, and collaboratively working with a team on APIs can be a disjointed developer experience. Moving from coding to testing, to publishing and consuming APIs often forces developers to jump from one application to the next. This costs time and the loss of context you move between experiences. That is why today we’re …
How to Create a Jokes App Using Humor Jokes and Memes API and Next.js
We all love a good laugh, and there’s nothing like a hilarious joke to brighten up your day. But what if you could have a never-ending supply of jokes at your fingertips, always on hand to make you laugh? Well, now you can, with the help of the Humor-Jokes-and-Memes API and Next.Js. In this article, we’ll show you how to create a jokes app using …
RapidAPI Around the World: San Francisco Office
This month we are exploring RapidAPI's worldwide office locations, starting with the HQ — San Francisco! We interviewed three teammates to learn more about the San Francisco office and how it has changed over the years. Q: How has the San Francisco office evolved since you joined RapidAPI? "When I first joined RapidAPI, we were in a small …
RapidAPI Raises $150M Series D at a $1B Valuation
The idea behind RapidAPI originated at a hackathon in 2015. Since then, Rapid has grown and changed tremendously to become the world’s largest API Hub where over 4 million developers find, test, connect, and collaborate on APIs. The Octopus Becomes a Unicorn Today, we are excited to announce RapidAPI’s $150M Series D funding at a $1B …
International Women’s Day Interview: Brittany Perez (Director, Account Management)
In honor of International Women's Day and Women's History Month, RapidAPI interviewed four of our team members to learn about their experiences. We will be sharing their answers throughout the month! This is our first interview with Brittany Perez, RapidAPI's Director of Account Management. 1. What do you do at RapidAPI? I lead one of …
RapidAPI Wins 2022 DEVIES API Services Award
We’re excited to announce that RapidAPI Hub won a 2022 DEVIES Award in the API Services category. The DEVIES Awards recognize outstanding design, engineering, and innovation in developer technology across 25 categories. Award winners were selected from hundreds of nominations by an expert-led panel of the DevNetwork Advisory Board, based on …
The Top 50 Most Popular APIs
Updated January 2023 If you’re in the API development or software development space and are searching for the most popular and widely used APIs (application programming interfaces), or are looking for the APIs to integrate one of the best APIs into your website, software application, or mobile app, you’ve come to the right place. With over 14 …
Leverage Test Fragments to Modularize Your API Tests
Like most modern applications, RapidAPI Testing is built with an API layer connecting the backend logic with the front-end UI. In this infrastructure, the API layer becomes the critical point that ensures our Testing app is always available and working correctly. Recognizing how critical this API layer is, we use our own API Testing tool to not …
What Are Microservices?
Microservices definition explained When it comes to building applications, there are multiple parts that work together within its software. Microservice architecture, or microservices for short, is a structural approach to building applications in which the parts work independently, but together. The framework allows for each individual function …
What is Enterprise Service Bus (ESB)?
Integration. That’s one big chore that keeps the IT and application development teams busy throughout the day. In a growing enterprise, new business requirements and increasing reliance on third-party systems are a standard norm. Therefore, integrating different systems and applications is a never-ending challenge for these teams. Enterprise …
8 Common API Error Examples and Use Cases
An Application Programming Interface (API) is a software interface that serves as a medium to connect computers and computer programs. APIs have become increasingly valuable that they generate a large portion of many companies’ revenue, including companies such as Google, Amazon, and Salesforce. Today, APIs have adopted useful features that have …
RapidAPI Testing GitHub Action now in the GitHub Marketplace
GitHub Actions need no introduction — it is a powerful, flexible CI/CD service that empowers developers to automate all of their software workflows. Over time, it has enabled developers to build amazing things, and significantly improved developers’ productivity. What’s great is that anyone can discover and utilize over 8,500 actions in the GitHub …
Mock API
What is a Mock API? With APIs, to mock is to copy or imitate. Mock APIs provide predefined API responses for client applications. For example, think of an application that has a database. We may want to create a mock API for that database that returns example data representations. Therefore, we can take a handful of common data objects from the …
The Latest RapidAPI Marketplace Updates (May 2021)
Today the latest version of the RapidAPI Marketplace is live for all developers! We initially released this version as a public beta starting on April 15. This gave us the opportunity to test the new version with approximately 4,000 developers and identify any remaining issues before the broader release. The latest version addresses common …