Pimp My API

When you have just cooked up that shiny new API and want to put it to production use, you may want to test it. 

In this episode, we share our thoughts on multiple API testing tools and their (dis)advantages so you can have a look yourself which one is the most suitable for your needs. 

This is part of a mini-series about the different approaches to API testing and documentation using Postman, Talend and Swagger. This might be the last bit of the mini-series now unless most of our listeners are interested in this kind of thing. If you want to hear more of this, please leave us a note or comment and we shall make more!

How are you testing APIs? Are you working test-driven?
Have you considered using your test sets as the documentation of your API?

Ever wanted to communicate with your client and your team using the same tool? We touch on this problem and present a surprising contender in this space. 

Then we quickly context switch to today's main game. 

You're just starting to play with a new API or creating one? You need some tools to be able to play around with these APIs.  Let's do a comparison between desktop and cloud-based API testing tools. 

Guess who will be the desktop API tester today? BINGO! It is indeed Roland.

We will make this a mini-series about the different approaches to API testing and documentation using Postman, Talend and Swagger so stay tuned for the next ones which will show you how to create automated tests and also how is Swagger's approach different to the other two. If 

How are you testing APIs? Are you working test-driven? Have you considered using your test sets as the documentation of your API? 

In this brave new world where everyone got a teaser of what's it like to be the work from home hero, some people found this is the life they might want to pursue. 

This episode is dedicated to giving you some insight into this, sometimes very bumpy ride called freelancing. We would recommend listening to it to everyone who is looking into making this lifestyle their default one, and also for those who want to hire freelancers for "the odd job" or even as a part of their team. 

Are you a freelancer already? Have you hired freelancers on your project? Was it a satisfactory experience? 

The web evolved significantly, especially in the last few years. From the point when "Web 2.0" was invented changes skyrocketed and the widening of this horizon never stopped since. You could do an increasing number of things in your browser. 

Today we take on this subject form the software developers' point of view as nowadays even development itself can totally happen using only one browser. Zoltan - who lives in the cloud fully - aims to convince Roland to try out the new of being. Working fully in the cloud. Let's see if the "apps for everything" guy is open to take the plunge and give the fully-cloud-native life a try?

Do you do everything on your local? Do you already live in the cloud? If not, would you give it a try? Let us know!

In our line of work, most of us face a hard decision point when we choose our next gig.

There are three major pathways to choose from. Getting a job in the classic sense of the word, joining an agency or be brave and dive into the somewhat lonely world of a freelancer.

If you asked yourself the question recently "Will I go full-on freelancer or is that safe employee seat more comforting?" or "Should I join an agency or try being the lone wolf freelancer?" you will surely find value in listening to our view on agency life and freelancing.

Both the agency and the lone wolf lifestyle have their positives and their downsides.

We strongly believe there's a middle-ground which keeps most of the upsides of both worlds, whilst looses some of the negatives.
In this episode, we will try to explain in detail how might that work in our view.

The internet is an unsafe and scary place and that's where your API will live. The minute you publish it to the world you can take for granted, there will be hacking attempts ranging from the script kiddie running some random thing on their computer to the person searching for something new to break into. 

In this episode, we share some tips on what you should be aware of when starting a new API project, what's the bare minimum in terms of security and what you should think about when your platform grows big! 

Enjoy! 

In this episode, we touch on how this ongoing crisis changed the way everyone works. 

Now what we thought is the exception became the new norm. We try to shed light on how people started coping and also give some useful advice on how to use the current situation to your advantage. 

How on earth this pandemic will improve your code quality? Well, we have some observations that might help with that.

Just started freelancing online? Have a listen to get some tips on what to avoid to make your career flourish from ground zero.