Originally published at https://www.checklyhq.com/guides/api-monitoring. Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are used throughout software to define interactions between different software applications. …

The trend of declaring infrastructure as code has been picking up steam over the last few years, offering a way for DevOps teams to transparently manage and scale cloud infrastructure. Why should the way we manage monitoring be any different? …

Our recent speed comparison of major headless browser automation tools, namely Puppeteer, Playwright and WebDriverIO with DevTools and Selenium, received a very positive response. The single most common ask from our readers was that we follow up by including Cypress in our benchmark. …

Originally published on theheadless.dev Puppeteer and Playwright can be used to create PDFs from webpages. This opens up interesting automation scenarios for tasks such as archiving, generating invoices, writing manuals, books and more. This article introduces this functionality and shows how we can customise the PDF to fit our needs. Generating a PDF file …

While automation tools are fundamental to modern software development, they also have the innate potential to be used for malicious purposes. This applies to Puppeteer and Playwright, too. As a consequence, some user flows are made purposely hard to automate to defend against threat actors. Some examples: New user signup …

When we decided to build Checkly’s browser checks, we chose to do so with Puppeteer, an open-source headless browser automation tool, later adding Playwright, too. We wanted to support users with synthetic monitoring and testing to let them know whether their websites worked as expected at any given moment. …

The need for fast and responsive applications has never been greater because of the move from desktop to mobile. Still, web applications have been increasing in complexity and size, with rising load times. …

We recently optimized the hell out of our Lighthouse score, and one of our landing pages went from a low 70s score to a cool 96 and above score. …

As we go about our day-to-day on the web, our browser automatically exchanges small amounts of data with the websites we visit. …