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Blackbird API Development Platform

Getting APIs right from design to delivery. Now including Telepresence.

APIs power innovation, yet they’re out of control in most organizations. Success comes down to the right approach to development.

Achieve 4x faster time-to market. Reduce time-to-market from 13 days to just 3 days.
Cut cloud costs by 50%. Eliminate expense and time spent on development environments.
Deliver high-quality APIs in half the time. Advanced testing and compliance with automation access.
Quick Overview

Blackbird for API Development

API control from concept to code.

APIs are more important than ever to businesses' operations and growth, yet nearly all companies report API-related security incidents.

Meanwhile, engineering leaders are under pressure to accelerate cycle times and cut infrastructure costs. The path to API success has many obstacles, but the right tool can help.

91%
of organizations relying on APIs to simplify their operations or to provide new revenue streams (Gartner)
99%
of companies report API-related security incidents (Salt Security)
Design ease, and instant shareable mocks.

OpenAPI standardized Specs are created in seconds so you can start coding ASAP without spending a sprint on building your design. Dynamic, sharable mocking in minutes with code you don’t have to manually write or maintain. Validate and go.

Dedicated hosted environment, no infra hassle.

Maximize coding time in the inner dev loop. Blackbird can act as your own infrastructure team, enabling you to run and deploy code in a hosted production-like test environment without the friction of requests and setups. 

End-to-end testing and debugging.

Minimize excessive staging pushes and errors in production. Blackbird integrates directly with your IDE to allow quick, painless debugging with breakpoints in a hosted cluster, or connect seamlessly to your remote target environment (powered by Telepresence).

Blackbird, now featuring Telepresence.

Cut costs and reduce complexity.

Fewer remote dev environments are needed, enabling you to save on cloud and maintenance costs.

Improve test integrity.

Enable local access to remote cluster traffic without time-consuming configuration and setups.

Faster app dev and delivery.

Code and ship faster, freeing 50%+ of dev time from manual tasks to launch features and apps faster due to fewer problems found late in the development cycle.

Accelerate your local development.

The power of Telepresence is now available in Blackbird API Development Platform, enabling a game-changing development experience that brings remote environments to developers’ fingertips for fast, frictionless testing with the stability, security, and support enterprises need. The integration of telepresence further improves release velocity and quality while enhancing developer experience. 

With convenient access to Telepresence functionality from the Blackbird CLI, developers can instantly establish a seamless connection between their local machine and shared remote Kubernetes environment for advanced debugging, improving code quality, and reducing infrastructure demands.

Blackbird, the ultimate API development toolkit.

Each feature is designed to improve your ability to design and develop without disruption, allowing you to focus on building innovative APIs. Use Blackbird to improve cycle times, reduce rework, power up predictability, and enhance developer experience—ultimately delivering higher quality APIs in a fraction of the time at a fraction of the price.

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