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How the US’s Possible Departure From the Universal Postal Union Will Impact Sellers

Update: After this article was posted, the United States reached a deal to remain in the Universal Postal Union. This is good news for U.S.-based e-commerce businesses and businesses around…
Austin Homegrown API Meetup from August, 15, 2019

Video: Highlights from August’s API Meetup

API design guidelines are an integral part of developer experience, not to mention the overall success of your API product. On Aug. 15, we had the pleasure of hosting three…

ShipEngineer Spotlight: Mikayla Middleton

What is your role at ShipEngine? I am an Account Executive for Mid-Market users. My role is to create lasting, quality relationships with our customers and provide exceptional customer experience.…

See ShipEngine’s James Messinger Present at API World 2019

Heading to San Jose for API World 2019? If so, catch ShipEngine’s James Messinger on the main stage. He will give a presentation called “Roadmap to Growth: How Great Docs…
ShipEngine API Documentation Redesign

Introducing ShipEngine’s Redesigned Documentation

We have an exciting update for developers using ShipEngine: Visit our documentation and you’ll find a new look and layout designed to improve developer experience. This month, we moved our…
Joe Pill, Technical Project Manager at ShipEngine - Shipping API

ShipEngineer Spotlight: Joe Pill

What do you do at ShipEngine?  My role is to help the team deliver working software efficiently, and mitigate or remove any barriers our engineers face while doing so. I’m…

New Feature: Start Using Your ShipEngine Sandbox Environment

Testing works best in isolation, making a sandbox environment highly valuable — no matter the tools you’re using to develop. ShipEngine is pleased to announce that all users now enjoy…

Businesses That Benefit from Address Validation APIs: 6 Use Cases

No one gets into business to waste time and money. But, that’s exactly what happens when you send a package that gets returned. The most frustrating part? When the package…

Build vs. Buy a USPS Shipping Integration (and Other Carrier Integrations)

So, you’re building an e-commerce store or platform, and you’re dreaming of traffic, transactions and a revenue line trending upward. But first you need to make some decisions, including what…

Video: Highlights From Our June API Meetup

What better way to break up a long, hot Texas summer than with good food, quality networking and helpful presentations on software development kits (SDKs) and the importance of developer…
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Get a Branded Tracking Page Powered by ShipEngine

Modern consumers expect a streamlined, user-friendly experience from the moment they land on your e-commerce site to the moment packages arrive at their doorsteps. They expect simple navigation. They expect…

Video: Highlights From Our Hackathon in NYC

Back in May, ShipEngine sponsored the Open Source ERPs Hackathon, a 3-day event at the General Assembly Building in Manhattan’s Flatiron District. Students and young professionals spent their time at…
Hackathon in NYC

Young Developers Integrate ShipEngine at Hackathon in NYC

Never underestimate the ability of young developers to deliver amazing results. At the Open Source ERPs Hackathon, 7 teams made up of students and young professionals created stunning products that…

Video: ShipEngine’s Mandy Hubbard Speaks at DevOpsDays Austin

DevOpsDays returned to Austin for the eighth time this spring, taking place May 2–3 at Darrell K. Royal-Texas Memorial Stadium. At this year’s conference, ShipEngine’s own Mandy Hubbard gave a…

Relaunching an API Meetup in Austin, TX

After a long winter without a meeting, the Austin Homegrown API Meetup is officially back. Last week, the ShipEngine team welcomed API creators, consumers and enthusiasts to our new headquarters…
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The Value of Automation Pipelines

This post is a transcript from John Chavez’s keynote presentation atThe Austin Homegrown API Meetup in October 2019. Thank you for the introduction! So, APIMatic actually was the one who…

What Makes for an Awesome SDK?

This post is a transcript from Mehdi Raza’s lightning talk atThe Austin Homegrown API Meetup in October 2019. So, I’m going to talk about what makes an awesome SDK. So…
Mandy Hubbard, Software Engineer gives presentation on Jenkins and Kubernetes at Dev Ops Austin 2019

Jenkins and Kubernetes: Secret Agents in the Cloud

This post is a transcript from ShipEngine Software Engineer, Mandy Hubbard’s, presentation at the DevOpsDays Austin in May 2019 Good morning—I think it’s still morning. I am Mandy Hubbard. I…
Adam Altman of Redocly gives a presentation on when to write your API documentation

When to Write Your API Documentation

This post is a transcript from Adam’s keynote presentation atThe Austin Homegrown API Meetup in September 2019. Hey everybody. I’m Adam. I have been coming to the Austin API meetup…