Once you’re set up your API portal you’ll often want it to be part of you existing web site and integrate closely. With 3scale’s portals you can skin them to produce a close fit with your existing site (changing the … more

One of the most common things you want to do when opening up your API is set access policies for users to ensure everybody gets fair use and system resources aren’t threatened with overuse. Often it also makes sense to apply different policies to different groups of users – basic access for some, more liberal policies for others.

You can set a wide range of policies from your 3scale control panel in a few easy steps by creating plans for users to sign up to and also customize rules on a per user basis. We’ll walk through the basic steps here. more

Like many others we were affected by the Amazon EC2 outage this AM which knocked out first one set of machines then another. Our load balancing worked initially but then failed after the second outage before switching to non-ec2 machines. … more

There are lost of new changes in the pipeline but a few are already live in the system. One of these are useful tweaks to the user management API requested by a good number of people. The updated documentation is … more

One of the cool things we’ve been able to do over the past few weeks is play around with Google’s App Engine (for Google I/O) and data from the UN Statistics site to create an unofficial API for the UN’s … more

We’ve had our heads down working on new iterations of the system for a good while now and made a lot of changes to the site (more to come) and one of them is fix up the blog so we … more

Good news – we just published our first newsletter which we want to continue bi-monthly from now on to keep everybody up to speed and to promote our newest customers. Inside the newsletter: – 3scale at Plugg in Brussels next … more

It’s been a hard working couple of weeks at 3scale with a new product in the works and updates to 3scale.net (which went live today – great job guys – service and contract editing hopefully now is much easier than … more

2008 is coming to a close and it’s been a great year for us – coming from prototypes through Techcrunch50, launch of our beta system and LeWeb to now 15 launched providers. We’d like to thank everybody that made it … more