5 key takeaways from NRF

“I don’t think retail is dead. Mediocre retail experiences are dead;” this statement from Warby Parker co-founder Neil Blumenthal certainly rang true at the NRF 2018: Retail’s Big Show. In fact, the retail industry was optimistic at this year’s conference, coming off the strongest holiday season gain since the Great Recession. After three days of […]

How to automate API monitoring using Anypoint Design Center’s flow designer

This blog post was written by one of the stars in our developer community, Kian Ting. 1. Overview I have created a Mule application that pings URLs to ensure that the URLs are up. And if the URL is down for one reason or another, then the Mule application is capable of sending out an email notification. […]

5 reasons why ESB-led integration is out and API-led integration is in

Integration has been an enterprise challenge for a long time. In order to create the new products, applications, and services that businesses need to confront the digital revolution, you have to connect systems, data, and devices. There’s no way around it. Enterprises struggled with point-to-point integrations, which created a spaghetti-like mess of code, and then, […]

Dev Guide: Build a Mule integration with a Slack slash command (Part 3)

Picking up from the second part of this series, this blog post will wrap up building an end-to-end API solution. For the first post, you abstracted source systems with APIs to add flexibility, ease of consumption, and increase adoption and integration possibilities.

HowTo – A quick introduction to using Anypoint MQ APIs

With as many systems of record available in the cloud– from  SaaS applications like Salesforce to Netsuite – the need for a cloud-based enterprise messaging solution has now become necessary to support high availability, scalability, and reliability patterns in an Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) solution, such as MuleSoft’s CloudHub.

How to Read a Properties File in Mule

This post was written by one of the stars in our developer community, Rakesh Kumar Jha.  As a MuleSoft Certified Architect, Designer and Developer, I recently worked on API implementations for one of our clients using MuleSoft’s CloudHub. One common feature that we used across our APIs implementations is reading a properties file in Mule flows.

Dev Guide: How to Design a Process API (Part 2)

Before we get started with this blog, if you haven’t checked out Part 1 of this Dev Guide series, make sure you work through that first, where we went through developing a resilient, governable, and flexible API layer on top of your source systems—what we call system APIs.

Meet a MuleSoft Community Star: Anupam Gogoi, Integration Engineer at Avenue Code

At MuleSoft, we are fortunate to have a community of developers that answer questions about Mule, share best practices, and organize meetups. Their knowledge and effort make building solutions with MuleSoft simpler and more rewarding.

Dev Guide: Design Reusable APIs to Save Time (Part 1)

Here at MuleSoft, we talk a lot about how API-led connectivity can speed up your development cycles, and I’m here to guide you through how to do it. The API-led approach is a natural evolution from developing libraries, writing digestible markdown files, and sharing them on GitHub.

Top 10 Connectors for Anypoint Platform

Anypoint Platform offers a wide variety of Anypoint Connectors to facilitate easy integration with third-party applications. But what kinds of connectors are available in Anypoint Exchange and what are the most downloaded connectors for 2017?