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Application program interfaces (APIs) have become extremely valuable to hugely successful companies such as Facebook, Twilio, and Expedia. They are, in fact, a strategic investment... read more.
API-led connectivity and CQRS: How Mule supports traditional integration tasks
There is a lot of interest in how Mule supports emerging patterns like CQRS (Command Query Responsibility Segregation), so I wanted to create a... read more.
4 key guiding principles to building your application network
In a previous post, I explained the reasons why pure SOA, despite being a powerful architectural paradigm with many benefits, could fall short. Building... read more.
How Unilever is embracing API transformations
Unilever is a company that houses some of the world’s largest consumer brands such as Lipton, Vaseline, and Dove. With its large and ever... read more.
How an application network could create the car of your dreams
I remember my first car well - it was a black Jeep Cherokee and made a “NGGGGGGRGH!” noise driving up hills. But I was... read more.
APIs 101: the ultimate crash course
APIs are incredibly important to today's business - you can't think about digitally transforming your business without having a handle on your API strategy.... read more.
Using APIs to build a great architecture
As we often say, APIs are the way to connect applications, data, and devices that will give your organization greater agility and flexibility. We... read more.
Stop making spaghetti code
Spaghetti is delicious when it's on your dinner plate, but it can give you indigestion when it's an enterprise integration pattern. When developers and... read more.
What we learned from failed SOA implementations
It’s been almost 30 years since the concepts behind SOA, specifically the notion of decomposing monolithic applications as discrete functions, were first introduced. Many... read more.
Reliable Acquisition using the Sftp connector
A high-reliability application (one that has zero tolerance for message loss) not only requires the underlying ESB to be reliable, but that reliability needs... read more.