MuleSoft Ambassador Patryk's Blog
Integration Architecture
Hey there! Ready to make your API as friendly and reliable? Let’s unpack some RESTful API design practices that are easy to digest and will save you a headache down the road. Dive in for a guide that distills my hands-on experience into practical wisdom for crafting APIs that hit the sweet spot of functionality…
We are used to designing and exposing REST APIs using Design Center and Anypoint Exchange. MuleSoft is one of the leading middleware vendors that introduced the complete design life cycle. It helped a lot as the majority of the APIs are RESTs. On the other hand, we have event-driven APIs using queues, streams, sockets. So…
If you want to follow the API-led principles your process and system APIs should not be accessible from outside. These APIs are only for internal usage. On top of them, other APIs are built and the application network grows. Experience APIs should be available for consumers to use. Today I show you how can it…
In the last article, I described two scenarios of API versioning for the CloudHub environment. I recommended embedding the API version in the application name to allow easily deploying multiple versions of the API at the same time. Did you know that we can even improve that approach? We can use a feature of Dedicated…
We version the APIs to track the changes we made to them. Most of the time, it is sufficient to host just a single, major version of the API. However, there are cases when we need to host the previous version for backward compatibility reasons. In this article, I decided to share my thoughts on…
Our APIs should be fault-tolerant. We have many strategies to cope with this. Previously I described a possible scenario with a circuit breaker pattern. Today I remind you of another, simpler way. Retry! We can retry the operation a couple of times before using a different fault tolerance pattern or stopping processing the message. Let’s…
In the last article, I described how to secure your services with the JWT Validation policy. To test it, I used Salesforce hands-on org from the trailhead. Imagine now that the Salesforce developer or admin reaches you and is asking you some questions about named credentials to set up JWT header. To make it smooth,…
A couple of my last articles focuses on connectivity between Salesforce and MuleSoft. This will be the next article in the series. In many cases, we would like to set up as secure communication as possible. We can start by enabling secure HTTP traffic, then sending a basic authorization header. How about sending a signed…
Last time I described connectivity scenario when Salesforce was reaching MuleSoft API exposed via Shared Load Balancer. What do we need to take into consideration when we slightly change our infrastructure and purchase a Dedicated Load Balancer? There are some vital changes that we should be aware of. In this article, I point out at…
Once we develop and deploy our MuleSoft applications, it is a good idea to test the connectivity. Is the calling system able to reach our API and receive a response? In this article, I will focus on the case when I expose API to Salesforce. I will use the Salesforce playground that is available on…
