Bitcoin, the first decentralized cryptocurrency was invented in 2009. And even though cryptocurrencies have been around for quite some time, interest in this innovative method of digital information exchange only began to skyrocket in the past few years. Today there are many cryptocurrencies available besides Bitcoin such as Ethereum, Litecoin, …
List of SMS Websites
While the advent of technology has immensely affected how we communicate, it is incredible to see how SMS/text messages have managed to stay relevant amid the shifting demographics. Most people prefer text messaging as a form of communication since it is fast and cheap. And while the price charged on texts differs from provider to the next, there …
Best Free Weather Information Websites
The weather can change in a split second. Your safety depends on timely nowcasts and forecasts that provide understandable information you can use. While we once relied on radio and television for updated information, today, the Internet takes their place. Mobile apps and websites provide real-time information including wind speed and …
RedisLabs Incident
We have been closely monitoring an issue with our servers for the past month. Over the past 30 days, we have been seeing a repeating issue where users were receiving 500 or 429 errors from our servers when making API requests. Upon further investigation, we learned that close to 0.2% of all requests hitting our servers resulted in an error during …
Project Highlight: Explain & Send Screenshots Google Chrome Extension
Like most people who write for the internet, I find myself constantly taking screenshots. I hit the keyboard shortcut on my computer. I open the downloaded image in Preview. I add various arrows, text or shape annotations. I upload the edited image to Imgur or email to share. Done. I didn't realize how much this inefficient process bothered me …
Add Authentication and Billing for Your API on Google Cloud Platform [Tutorial]
Did you know the API solutions market is projected to quadruple to a value of $660 million by 2020? It's a good time to get your API up and running! In this tutorial, you will learn how to get your API ready and grab a piece of this rapidly expanding market. Today, we’ll talk about how to do the following with Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and …
Beyond Scrum: Getting to Continuous Deployment
Scrum is great. Personally, I love it. I loved it as a developer and as a team leader. It brings order to the developer's life and brings a lot of visibility to the lives of project managers all around. It becomes almost the magical solution for development group leaders everywhere. Can’t deliver on time? Use scrum. Need visibility for management? …
Add Authentication and Billing to Your API on AWS [Tutorial]
Deployment. Authentication. Pricing. Getting an API up and running is a huge project to take on, but using RapidAPI makes it that much easier. Today, we’ll talk about how to do the following with AWS and RapidAPI. Deployment: You need to get your API deployed on servers and publicly accessible by developers around the world. …
Add Authentication and Billing for Your API on Heroku [Tutorial]
Say you build the next big API. You have your endpoints up and running and all the functionality is complete. But before developers can start using your API, there are three big tasks to look at: Deployment: You need to get your API deployed on servers and publicly accessible by developers around the world. Authentication: Unless you want …
Mashape Proxy Outage September 7th, 2017
We recently experienced a system-wide outage that affected both developers and API providers. We have identified and solved the problem. While the issue is resolved now, we'd like to thank you again for your patience here and apologize again for the inconvenience. All systems should be set from here! If you have any additional issues, we are …
Sneak Peek: New API Provider Dashboard
RapidAPI isn’t just a hub of 400,000 developers to find, test and connect to APIs. It’s also a place for API providers to manage, distribute and monetize them. We’ve spent the past three months talking to providers of our 8,000 APIs. During these conversations, we’ve heard useful insights from technical recommendations to big picture strategic …
Dropbox and TrueFace.ai Facial Recognition Security System [TUTORIAL]
Office security is always a concern that needs to be properly addressed, especially for tech companies. But there aren’t a lot of great solutions out there. Key cards are easy to lose. Fobs can be lost or stolen as well. Enter the power of APIs! This past week, I built an office security system using facial recognition. A facial recognition …
The Ultimate To-Do List: Adding Texting with Twilio [TUTORIAL Part 2]
Update: Twilio's official APIs are now available on RapidAPI. Be sure to check them out. Who else feels like their to-do list is a mile long? Sometimes, I look at mine and think… https://giphy.com/gifs/mrw-president-civil-LKTTAzGboJGzC Sure, there are plenty of articles out there on how to “get organized.” Being an engineer though, I’d …
Create the Ultimate Slack To-Do List [TUTORIAL]
Ever feel like your to-do list or reminder applications aren’t quite perfect or customizable? I was definitely feeling the pain recently. Finally, I decided to build a custom solution with Slack so I would always have access to my to-do list. This project couldn’t have come at a better time, because we recently launched the RapidAPI Webhooks …
RapidAPI and Mashape API Marketplace Join Forces
In RapidAPI’s launch blog post back in November 2016, I outlined Rapid’s mission and plan: to connect all the software in the world by helping developers find and consume APIs more easily. Today, Mashape’s API marketplace is merging into RapidAPI to form the world’s largest API hub. Developers can now find, test and connect to over 7,500 APIs in …