{"id":21081,"date":"2016-03-10T14:15:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3716468"},"modified":"2016-03-10T14:15:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:15:00","slug":"four-simple-benefits-of-virtualizing-your-apis-by-smartbearamber-cloudexpo-api-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/four-simple-benefits-of-virtualizing-your-apis-by-smartbearamber-cloudexpo-api-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Simple Benefits of Virtualizing Your APIs By @SmartBearAmber | @CloudExpo #API #Cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With new virtualization tools popping up seemingly everywhere, you might wonder why so many testers, developers, QA Engineers, and Operations professionals are virtualizing their web services.<br \/>\nWhy should you virtualize your APIs?<br \/>\nSmartBear Software recently conducted a survey of more than 2,300 software professionals, working in a variety of different roles in more than 50 industries, and found that ease of use, responsiveness\/performance, and service reliability\/uptime are the three most important characteristics organizations want in an API.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/3716468\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With new virtualization tools popping up seemingly everywhere, you might wonder why so many testers, developers, QA Engineers, and Operations professionals are virtualizing their web services.<br \/>\nWhy should you virtualize your APIs?<br \/>\nSmartBear Software rec&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21081"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21081\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21286,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21081\/revisions\/21286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}