Creating & Deploy a virtual REST API in 50 seconds

The video above demonstrates how a virtual REST API can be created, tested and hosted in the cloud in less than a minute.

So why would you need a Virtual API platform like Api-On-Cloud?

If you frequently work with HTTP / REST APIs then chances are that you have faced challenges such as:

• API that your code depends upon isn’t ready yet
• You don’t have time to develop the API that your Client needs right-away because you have other important deliverables to work on
• Working/Testing with an API is difficult if you don’t have control over it
• Some problems can never be reproduced in non-production systems
• Limited test data makes it difficult to reproduce problems quickly and/or consistently
• API documentation is inadequate or non-existent
• API Documentation takes too much time and still leaves some questions unanswered
• Writing API mocks is taking away too much of your development time
• Tests dependent upon API mocks require maintenance whenever data model is updated
• Mocked APIs are breaking the builds and disrupting deployments
• Mocked APIs are rigid and require additional time to keep them up-to-date

We faced these challenges repeatedly and decided to do something about them to make API based development / integration easier and developed Api-On-Cloud to solve the problems described above. In addition, we wanted to make sure that our solution:

• is easy to use by anyone who understands the basics of HTTP / REST API components such as Request, Response, Headers, Path Variables, Query Parameters, Content Type and HTTP Codes
• doesn’t get in the way and slow down development since virtual APIs can be created, tested and launched from the web browser, no additional tool is needed
• shouldn’t require lengthy system setup and configuration before you can use it
• lets you create virtual APIs that are dynamic, flexible, can handle variety of inputs and return a variety of responses so that you don’t have to update the virtual API every time the inputs to the API change

And for cases when updating the API is unavoidable, we hope that the video above was able to demonstrate that such changes won’t take too much of your valuable time.

Happy Programming!