In a previous life, I worked primarily with the operational side of the IT business, which is concerned with monitoring and operational alerting. The requirements we implemented were variations on a theme that typically started with the business asking IT to provide an SLA  for “availability” of a service as well as an SLA for the responsiveness of a service. On the surface, these requirements were clean and simple, but in practical terms, things got murky very quickly.

Read more

In my previous blog, we covered some of the options for connectors that support Kerberos, today we will focus on two more connectors where Kerberos use cases frequently pop-up: the Anypoint Connector for Hadoop.

Read more

In my previous blog, I wrote about Kerberos support in MuleSoft, so it seems only natural to discuss the other place where Kerberos fits into the API ecosystem. Not only can Kerberos be used to secure APIs hosted or proxied by MuleSoft, but certain third-party systems can use or even require Kerberos for their security.

Read more

One of the more challenging aspects of integration work is dealing with various security protocols. This holds true both as a consumer of a secured service and as a producer of a service that must enforce the security protocol.

Read more

So far in this 3-part series, we have looked at variables (Part 1) and functions (Part 2) in order to leverage them to our advantage. In this third and final part of the real-world DataWeave series, we will look at another common problem area, that of performing nested loops in data structures.

Read more

In the first part of this series we tackled the issue of defining and also using variables within DataWeave as opposed to using the legacy set “Variable” module. Today, I need to raise the topic of functions in DataWeave as a key thought when working with MuleSoft has to be “can I reuse this?”

Read more

Over the last few years at MuleSoft, I have had the opportunity to work with many different customers covering a wide range of use cases, inevitably requiring data transformations of one sort or another. I have observed some recurring patterns and “gotchas” when DataWeave is used in the real-world and I will address these in this 3-part series.

Read more