Every engineer needs a way to not only build out what their API will look like, but how it’s going to work in the real world. Designing, testing, and architecting an API within your code sounds good until it needs to scale. Using Ambassador Blackbird allows you to fully design and test from the very beginning.

Blackbird's actually great when you have a complex workflow in a dashboard SPA that involves multiple steps, finalized with payment, that can fail due to connectivity. Simulating errors like packet drops or session expiration is highly valuable during aggressive automated testing.

Blackbird is so easy and so straightforward; it's really great to see.

It is hands-down a must-have tool for faster, smarter API development. The tool is a lifesaver in generating clean, server-side, and client-side boilerplate code. This allows me to focus on the unique aspects of my APIs rather than spending time on repetitive coding tasks.

We choose to use Blackbird since it allows us to build the API in the shortest amount of time possible while also producing a killer API.

We need to give this huge lift of productivity to each and everyone. With a solution like Blackbird, plus what we are already doing, will help people to adapt their skills and be more innovative … that’s the holy grail.

We wanted to leverage Ambassador’s Blackbird tool to showcase the rapid development to save developers time from start to finish.

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Ambassador Blackbird makes the most sense for visualize representation of your API. Without it, you’re traversing through lines and lines of JSON or methods in your API blocks in whatever language you’re comfortable with, which instantly becomes cumbersome.

While creating tests in Python, we had to create some scenarios of each endpoint. We fixed some bugs in the code but it did take longer time to debug with various test cases when compared with Blackbird setup.

To install our products, we need a gateway that is cloud agnostic because we have clients who have OpenShift, AWS, Azure, etc. Because of that, we needed to partner with a solution that could support the integration of all of those. And the main hurdle we found is that depending on which gateway you use, you may experience different performances with different platforms.