On a previous episode of #MiddlewareFriday I talked about a global integration event occurring on Saturday, March 25th 2017. Happy to announce that I will be speaking at the New York meetup which is being held at the Microsoft Technology Center near Times Square. This is my second opportunity to speak at the MTC and am very much looking forward to it. The FREE event … Continue reading Speaking at Global Integration Boot camp
I have a POC that I have recently built. The initial driver was building SaaS Connectivity for ServiceNow. Currently there is not an Azure ‘out-of-cloud’ connector for ServiceNow. This gave me the opportunity to get my hands dirty and build my own custom API App where I can expose ServiceNow operations. Solution Purpose The purpose of the solution is that you may have an Plant … Continue reading Azure API Management–As An Agility Layer
I recall the first time I saw this demoed at the MVP Summit last fall and wondered how/if I would use this. My thought process, at the time, was that Microsoft has put together a nice, functional Administration and Developer portals so why would I want to call these APIs myself? Fast-forward about 8 months where I have a ‘Middleware’ support team and also other … Continue reading Using the Azure API Management–Management API
When implementing API Management solutions, it is a common practice to use IP Whitelisting when interacting with certain trading partners. The idea being that only traffic presented from a specific IP Address (or range) can call your API Proxy. This usually isn’t used exclusively, but can be combined with other techniques to reduce your attack surface. Trying to manage IP Whitelisting using Firewalls and Reverse … Continue reading Azure API Management–IP Whitelisting
I have recently returned from Charlotte where I had a couple of Azure API Management sessions at the BizTalk Bootcamp. The first presentation was an Introduction to the API Economy, API Management, Azure API Management and how you can use Azure API Management and BizTalk to introduce some agility in your organization. This was the same session that I delivered at the BizTalk Summit in … Continue reading Introduction to Azure API Management: Hands-on Lab
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