Showing posts with label APIs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label APIs. Show all posts
Monday, January 16, 2023

API mock servers from OpenAPI specs

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 If you have an OpenAPI specs file (YAML or JSON), then you can quickly create a mock server using one of the following tools.  Microrocks: ...
Wednesday, August 31, 2022

Ruminating on TMForum

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The TM Forum ( TMF ) is an organisation of over 850 telecom firms working together to drive digital innovation. They created a standard know...
Wednesday, August 10, 2022

API contract first design

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 I have always been a great fan of the 'Contract-First' API design paradigm. The Swagger (OpenAPI) toolset makes it very simple to d...
Thursday, August 27, 2020

Automating API creation over existing data-sources

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 If you need to quickly build REST APIs over existing data in excel sheets, RDBMS, NoSQL data stores; then the DreamFactory toolkit is immen...
Wednesday, June 24, 2020

Ruminating on Asynchronous Request-Reply pattern over HTTP

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Quite often, a HTTP request would entail processing on some back-end that communicates via messaging. In such cases, do we keep the server t...
Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Ruminating on Consumer Driven Contracts

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One of my teams has successfully implemented the paradigm of consumer driven contracts in a recent digital transformation program. We were ...
Tuesday, March 13, 2018

Ruminating on Jackson JSON Parsing

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In my previous post , we discussed about how we can extract an arbitrary JSON value out of a JSON string. Very often, developers face anoth...
Wednesday, January 17, 2018

Timeout for REST calls

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Quite often, we need a REST API to respond within a specified time frame, say 1500 ms. Implementing this using the excellent Spring RestTe...
Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Generating secure keys for encryption

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Very often, we need to create secure keys that can be used in digital signatures or for signing a JWT. It is very important to create a se...
Sunday, October 08, 2017

Database connection reconnection strategy

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In any database connection pool, there is a risk of stale connections due to network outages or database server restarts. How do we refresh...
Wednesday, October 04, 2017

Spring Sleuth Tips and Tricks

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Spring Sleuth coupled with Zipkin in an excellent tool to measure the performance bottlenecks in your distributed microservices architectu...
Sunday, April 16, 2017

Ruminating on the single-threaded model of NodeJS and Node-RED

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Many developers and architects have asked me questions on the single-threaded nature of NodeJS and whether we can use it effectively on mul...

Ruminating on a nifty tool called 'ngrok'

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Many a times developers want to test their APIs running on their development machine against a mobile app. To do so, developers typically d...
Monday, May 23, 2016

API keys providing a false sense of security !

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We have seen so many API implementations wherein an API key is the only thing used to secure APIs. API keys are typically long alphanumeric...

Open Source API Management Tools

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For folks, who are interested in setting up their own API Management tools, given below are a few options: Kong API Management -  https:/...
Monday, December 07, 2015

Whitepaper on APIs - Digital Glue in the new economy

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Recently I coauthored a whitepaper on APIs and the important role they play in the digital economy. Link -  http://www.syntelinc.com/insi...
Saturday, October 03, 2015

Ruminating on SemVer

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Semantic Versioning (aka SemVer) of components has become mainstream today. The official page laying out the guidelines is available here -...
Thursday, June 25, 2015

APIs in Fleet Management

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Fleet Management software is used by fleet owners to manage their moving assets. The software enables them to have a centralized data-store...
Thursday, January 08, 2015

Ruminating on the Open Bank Project

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A colleague of mine introduced me to the ' Open Bank Project '. It's an interesting open source project to create a generic API...