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We recently added Time Zones to the Zip Code API – Zip Code Location. This can be useful for applications that want to automatically set a timezone for a user. Sample of Zip Code Location Output Data is formatted in JSON, XML or CSV. Here is a sample Time Zone data output in XML: <timezone> <timezone_identifier>America/New_York</timezone_identifier> <timezone_abbr>EDT</timezone_abbr> <utc_offset_sec>-14400</utc_offset_sec> <is_dst>T</is_dst> </timezone>Read More →

We have recently partnered with Red Hat to supply (almost) free load testing for applications built and deployed on the OpenShift PaaS. In our tests, we were able to demonstrate the automated scalability of the OpenShift PaaS and the power of the RedLine load testing tool to help determine sizing requirements. This is a powerful and simple combination for application developers since they can quickly emulate 0 – 50,000+ users hitting their application over a periodRead More →

When you first start a test, there is an initial wait time for RedLine to provision the Spot Instances in your AWS account. Then we have to load the tests scripts and get things synced. This only happens the first time you are starting up those spot instances.  As long as you keep using them, you will not have the wait time. Of course if you run your tests and then let the spot instances die,Read More →

We have added the ability to easily download data from your load tests into a CSV format. This gives you the ability to do further analysis beyond the graphing and detailed Summary reports we provide. While the first chart is simple and easy to read, the data download in the second chart below obviously becomes a lot more valuable!Read More →

We just had another company upgrade their service for the Zip Code API.  We always love to see how people are using it.  This one is a large online car resale website. It let’s the buyer look within a radius of their zip code for available cars. Try the Zip Code Radius Try out the API entering a zip code and radius here. Share how you are using the Zip Code API, even if it isRead More →

We are proud to be a co-sponsor of the Pandacodium Hackathon coming this weekend. @Pandacodium is a worldwide online hackathon. The focus will be building real-time, interactive web applications. We are providing a free year at the 5,000 ZipCode API Requests per hour level.  Good luck!Read More →

We have created code for you to reuse in your web applications to do autofill City and State from zip code. For example, when the user fills in the Zip Code on your website, ZipCodeAPI will return city and state.  Feel free to use and modify. And if you have other samples you would like to share, let us know!Read More →

RedLine recently passed the stringent requirements of the CloudBees Technology Partner Program. You can see an overview as well as a detailed integration write-up. One of the main benefits is that as developers use CloudBees to develop-test-deploy their app there is now a very low cost way to estimate the proper configuration.  And with CloudBees you can either set-up Autoscaling or tune your configuration to the size that you need. Since the cost of running loadRead More →