Hello from MuleSoft’s performance team! This post describes a real-world tuning example in which we worked with a customer to optimize their Mule ESB application. A customer presented us with an application that was to be a proxy to several endpoints. As such, it needed to be very lightweight since the endpoints introduced their own […]
Let me start by stating that this is not a rant, it’s a look at my personal experience with interviewing candidates for technical Java positions. I guess that I first started to think about the following concepts when I read James Donelan’s post “Can Programmers Program?“. In that post he elaborates on some statistics from […]
This is part four, sub-series 2, of the API design best practices series. Jump to sub-series 1 of the hypermedia sub-series. Read part one: Plan Your API » Read part two: Spec Driven Development » Read part three: Nouns, CRUD, and more » The Harsh Reality of the State of Hypermedia Specs Hypermedia sounds great in theory, but theory only goes […]
This is part three of the API design best practices series. Read part one: Plan Your API » Read part two: Spec Driven Development » Once you have an understanding of what your API needs to be able to do in order to meet your developer’s requirements, it’s important to ensure that it remains as flexible and extendable as […]
Performance always matters An application and its environment should be designed with performance in mind. The application, the server it runs on, the database it communicates with, the network it communicates over: all of these elements should be performant. Creating an efficient, elegant mechanism is not only important for a business, but a matter of […]
Well, it’s that time of the year again! This is when we put our phones down (well, mostly) and give thanks for everything and everyone around us. We at MuleSoft have a lot and a lot of people to be thankful for. Business is going well (see our Record Q3 Performance announcement), we’re gaining industry […]
I am excited to announce that our November release of the Anypoint Platform for APIs is now live. This update to the platform includes a variety of new features and workflow enhancements aimed at streamlining the process of managing APIs. These new features include the following: Improved proxy configuration & support for HTTPS and load balancer scenarios […]
This is part two of the API design best practices series. Read part one: Plan Your API ». Define Your API in a Flexible, but Standard Spec I cannot stress the importance of spec driven development enough. One of the quickest ways to kill your API is to define the API in your code, instead […]
This is part one of the API design best practices series. Read the introduction to the series: New Series: API Best Practices » Understand WHY you are building an API Perhaps the foundation of the foundation, understanding why you are building an API is a crucial step towards understanding what data/ methods your API should make accessible […]
By now, you’ve probably already seen the image of the iceberg cross section showing just how many APIs are available out in the world. With over 13,000 public APIs available for use across the web, and hundreds of thousands more being used privately and in-house, the possibilities are endless. The demand for flexibility and extensibility […]