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Sandbox better with Blackbird.

An API sandbox is a testing environment where developers can experiment before adoption and deployment. Providing a dedicated sandbox ensures safer API testing, benefiting internal developers, partners, and the developer community.

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Why API sandboxing matters.

An API sandbox allows API consumers to test APIs in a controlled, isolated environment, ensuring they function as expected before integration. This not only helps developers vet APIs more effectively but also streamlines the integration process, giving them the confidence that the APIs will work seamlessly in production.

Key Benefits

Better controlled API interactions.
If you have the ability to test in a sandbox prior to using in live time, you can better predict the API’s interactions.
Faster developer onboarding.
Get your new devs up to speed quickly with the confidence that they can use the API sandbox as a learning playground.
Reduced barrier to API adoption.
Give your consuming developers the full experience without putting their own resources at risk to adopt with confidence.
Reduced production risks.
The sandbox won’t impact your server load, data, rate limiting, etc.so there’s no increasing costs or risks on your environment or infrastructure.
Happier API consumers.
Devs leave their interaction with you feeling trustworthy, satisfied, and confident that using your API will lead to the result they are looking for moving forward.
Easy debugging.
Make life easier for your developers by enabling them to debug integration issues without impacting live data or production systems, allowing them to iterate quickly and resolve problems faster.

Sandbox smarter. Play, experiment, deploy with confidence.

Use Blackbird to create your own API sandbox with confidence and ease.

How Blackbird helps you sandbox better.

  • No extra infra costs
  • One-to many API development
  • Instant partner API sandbox

By providing a secure API testing environment with controlled API responses in Blackbird, reducing costly errors, downtime, and security risks. We enable API integration and integration testing in a simulated environment, reducing the need for expensive troubleshooting in production because the entire environment is hosted by us. That means no infrastructure costs or using your own resources to test what you need, cutting your development costs significantly.

Blackbird will automatically generate a sharable mock from your OpenAPI Spec in minutes to enable one-to-many API development with test data. Additionally, for personalized Partner API Sanbox, Blackbird can spin up an environment in an instant, all you need is a docker image.

What our customers say

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.

Michael Levan
Cloud-Native Consultant

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.

Oleh
Principal SRE and Infra Architect at Arkis

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

Kristina D.
Senior Software Engineer at Tietoevry

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.

Shinghai Zivuku
Technical Writer

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.

Humorie
2024 Hackathon team

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.

Driss Lamrani
CEO of A2IM-Robotadvisors

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

Grocery Guardian
2024 Hackathon team

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.

Michael Levan
Cloud-Native Consultant

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.

Grocery Guardian
2024 Hackathon team

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.

Driss Lamrani
CEO of A2IM-Robotadvisors