“Retail matters”; that was the declaration last week by the Editor-In-Chief of RetailWeek at the start of their 2017 flagship conference in London. It might be biased for the leading-UK retail conference to declare their industry is important, but after two days of keynotes, breakout sessions and rubbing shoulders with the industry’s most influential figures […]
A recent report, conducted by Utah State University and sponsored by Puppet Labs, revealed that DevOps practices can boost IT performance and ultimately improve a business’s bottom line. High IT performance correlates with DevOps practices like proactive monitoring and continuous delivery and integration. Similarly, the ability to create and implement a successful API strategy has […]
Tell me about your role at MuleSoft. I am a Strategic Account Executive at our San Francisco HQ, ultimately responsible for MuleSoft’s relationship with some of our strategic customers on the West Coast. Although I have a commercial focus, what motivates me every day is ensuring that my customers are wildly successful and, as a […]
Since 2015, MuleSoft Champion’s program has grown to over 12,000 developers from around the world. Developers not only complete challenges to redeem prizes (from training and certification vouchers to items from the MuleSoft swag store), but they also share valuable best practices with others in the program. To celebrate the great thought leadership that is […]
Load balancing across multiple server instances is one of the amazing techniques and ways for optimizing resource utilization, maximizing throughput, and reducing latency to ensure high availability of servers in an environment where some concurrent requests are in millions from users or clients and appear in a very fast and reliable manner. A Load Balancer […]
If you share your code on GitHub with other developers, you may want to be notified about commits. GitHub has a built in feature to provide notifications or send an e-mail about these commits. I wanted to see, if I could leverage MuleSoft to introduce notifications through alternative channels, particularly through Twitter. I implemented two […]
Digital transformation seems to be focused on creating new digital capabilities, such as being able to accommodate social, mobile, analytics and cloud, but digital transformation isn’t just about creating the new, but also about utilizing the old. A large number of organizations undergoing digital transformation have been in business for many years and have dozens […]
This is second in series of how to DevOps articles, and is a follow-up to the MUnit blog – HowTo(DevOps) – Leveraging MUnit For Test Automation. A core component of the continuous integration process, that includes the previously discussed test automation framework, is the build process. As soon as the developer commits the code to version control repository, […]
Studio’s Visual Debugger allows you to run your application in Debug mode, stopping execution to check the contents of a message at previously-specified building blocks. To do this, you set a breakpoint at any building block in your flow that you wish to check or test. When you run your application in Debug mode, the […]
As Andy Williams’ popular song reminds us, the holiday season really is ‘the most wonderful time of the year’. The same is true for retailers, with UK shoppers expected to spend £42.2 billion in December 2016, a 2.5% increase from last Christmas. However, without adopting an appropriate API strategy to respond to increasing customer pressure for friction-free online and in-store experiences, […]