API management excels on socialization and self-subscription of APIs while ensuring security across application boundaries. A Service Mesh is more about the internal routing and resilience patterns required within an application or domain boundary. Context There is both noise and religious positions around API Management and Service Mesh existence, co-existence, usage and interactions. Confusion around […]
Regardless of the type of API services your applications are built upon, and unless you still live in SOAP world and need a serious overview of technology and architectural decisions, your APIs are RESTful. Note that GraphQL is still RESTful at the base but let’s talk if you feel this needs more meat around the […]
Provide consistent landing zones based on an application archetype subscription strategy to minimize subscription sprawl. Expand the definition of requisite components to better fit the governance and compliance needs of a cloud-mature enterprise. from: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-ca/azure/cloud-adoption-framework/ready/enterprise-scale/architecture The landing zone concept is not unique to a cloud provider but rather an essential concept that governs digital transformation […]
For many front-end, back-end and integration developers, the REST API management is hazy. What does it include, what does it mean regarding the design of APIs? Our APIs are already visible over the internet, do we need this now? A developer would rather jump right away into GraphQL or just offer simple APIs generated from […]
At the Ignite 2019 IT event, Microsoft launches a range of business solutions and services to help them better manage and use their data and automate some of the processes. Here are some of the key new features released today at Microsoft Ignite 2019: Azure Synapse Analytics, a new service that combines Azure SQL Data […]
One of the questions I had to come back to on several occasions is the difference between Azure Updates and Azure Upgrades and when do these happen. As an organization, it makes perfect sense to strive to be in control of the environment you operate in and moving to SaaS and PaaS does feel like […]
Chances are that, if you have started your journey to the cloud a while ago, and that’s not so long ago.. you already have IaaC – Infrastructure as a Code scripts and templates in place. I know I do and I know how important it is for Azure Cloud architecture and solutions to be maintained […]
Azure API Management is very powerful and you get a lot of functionality out of the box but leaking information can easily be overlooked. There are several ways information can be leaked when configuring the Azure API Management. Setting up appropriate policies and using the right product subscription keys provide powerful ways to address these […]
I want to start by saying that the API Management services (and specifically the Azure API Management, since this is the component I usually go to) are central and necessary in today’s digital transformation as they’re promoters to generating an ecosystem that allows secure rapid growth of apps and integrations. It’s a true foundation for […]