Optimize Your Engineering Team's Performance with Blackbird
Maximize developer productivity and fuel innovation
Ambassador Blackbird is the ultimate solution for engineering teams looking to enhance productivity and deliver high-quality APIs. Our platform streamlines the entire API development lifecycle, from design to deployment, allowing your team to focus on innovation and business growth.
Experience 4x faster time-to-market
Cut cloud costs by 50%
High-quality APIs in half the time
Powerful benefits
Cut infrastructure costs
Optimize cloud usage: Hosted development environments reduce the need for extensive and costly infrastructure setups.
Streamlined workflow: Minimize time and resources for infrastructure setup and maintenance.
Instant and consistent mocking and testing: Hosted testing instances reduce infrastructure costs and ensure efficient testing.
Reduce errors and risk
Advanced mocking capabilities: Instant, shareable, and secure mock links for fast and thorough testing.
Thorough testing environments: Identify and fix issues early with shareable URLs, breakpoints, and secure environments.
Seamless kubernetes access: Telepresence-based connections enable seamless access to Kubernetes clusters for testing and debugging on local computers.
Improve velocity and experience
Streamlined API Lifecycle: Optimized path for API design, coding, testing, and delivery.
Dedicated Dev Environment: Integrated design, mocking, and testing with a master API catalog.
Example: The GroceryGuardian team built a Home Grocery Management API using Blackbird in just 3 days, compared to 13 days with FastAPI and Render. Read more here.
How Blackbird can help
Power parallel development
Key Benefit
Simultaneous development: boost project speed with seamless API spec generation and advanced mocks
Real-time teamwork: enable simultaneous collaboration between front-end and back-end teams
Fuel API adoption with instant sandboxes
Key benefit
Hosted playgrounds: reduce infrastructure costs and maintenance with turnkey implementation
Instant mock & test deployments: enable self-serve access for API validation
Tame application dependencies
Key Benefit
Stub out 3rd-party dependencies: access popular APIs or import them to run simultaneous mocks and test deployments
Isolate internal dependencies: upload and run internal APIs in a dedicated environment as new ones are built
Local testing and debugging of microservices
Key benefit
Quick testing and debugging: use breakpoints and IDE integration for efficient testing
Remote Kubernetes access: quickly test and debug code on remote clusters or a dedicated hosted environment
Why Choose Ambassador Blackbird?
- Four times 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.
- High-quality, secure APIs in half the time: Advanced testing and compliance with automation access.
- Enhanced visibility & collaboration: simplify collaboration and API organization with a single source of truth.
