Application load testing for API endpoints can be done quite easily. You could even do this to compare different API platforms that you’re considering using. That’s what we’ll do here with a real case. Zip Code API’s have become very popular because of the data they can provide easily and inexpensively. For example, one API when passed a zip code returns the city, state, latitude, longitude, time zone and more. Another will return all zip codesRead More →

What’s New With RedLine13? We’ve been very busy since the last time we’ve reached out to our subscribers. In the time that has passed we have: Added new test tracking features Updated region support for Amazon Web Services Added the ability to create tests based on Apache & NGINX WebServer log files Grown to over 2,000 active users  Have a combined total of over 27,000 tests ran with RedLine13. Brought on new staff members RedLine13 By TheRead More →

We have added an interesting extension to our Zipcode API. This is for applications that have their own database of latitude and longitude positions, but need to calculate items within a certain radius of another latitude/longitude. You can try it here – https://www.zipcodeapi.com/API#radiusSql. Hint – use the Zipcode to Location API to find your specific Lat/Long. You specify the latitude and longitude of a center point, the distance/radius from this location, the field names used in yourRead More →

RedLine13 recently started using Mashape to offer a ZipCode API for developers to easily include distance, radius and City lookup easily within their applications.  So far it has been used in a variety of both Mobile and Web applications.  The use cases range from: Major retailer calculating the distance to each store from a shoppers home address Alumni Networking to find other graduates from the same college within a certain radius City/State lookup to auto-fill anRead More →