We're launching a new service in beta to compliment our Viafo API service. Viatests will track and monitor the performance of the different services you have in your applications and provide you with alerts and updates when things change or go down.
We also track the performance in terms of latency so you'll know when a slow responding API could be causing you problems.
Go to www.viatests.com to sign up for the Beta program.
One of the regular questions we are asked is: don't we get similar integration thought the platform? If so, why should we use you?
It's a good question. But it's missing one of the fundamental issues. Are the users of your apps your customers or Apple or Google customers? If the answer is that they're yours, and that you need to know what they're doing and with which social networks and where then you need to be more careful with how you interact with them. Viafo's gateway gives you several advantages over the native SDK integration.
Remember that social networking between your customers using your apps is one of th most important things you can have.
We've been working on making a piece of our technology available to everybody and today we're ready to go live with the early Alpha of our API Monitoring product.
Current oAuth status for major web services
One of the challenges we've faced is knowing when the 3rd party services we support breaks or changes in such a way that it would break our product, or a client's application. We also wanted to know what latency levels the different social networks operate at. As we didn't find what we were looking for, we went off and built it.
Currently, we're showing you the averages for the last week. But if you're interested in having more access and the ability to look at the performance of other APIs, then drop us a line at info@viafo.com to register your interest.
The current version is monitoring a number of common web APIs, Social Networks and some carrier APIs. Over the next few weeks we'll be adding more, and will be shortly launching a premium version.
Take a look at http://viatests.appspot.com.
Additionally, with the Viafo Gateway, developers don't have to hard code payment scenarios to their applications and can easily change and manage.
Keep your eyes out for more annoucements about supported carrier APIs on AT&T and other networks.
Check out the service at the Viafo Developer Site.
You don't have to take our word for it, how about this article:
http://siliconangle.com/blog/2010/12/02/the-api-market-is-taking-a-big-shape/
Basically, there's a lot of movement in the space that we're focusing on. Hopefully we'll be able to give you more insight into that next week, with the launch of Viafo Labs, our services arm, and videos showing how effective our Gateway is at enabling social networking services in your apps.