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…
Mule 4.x
How to shuffle elements in the DataWeave array?
In this short article, I show you how to shuffle your array. In other words, we will randomly reorder the elements in the array. So let’s get started. Sample case I have an array of numbers like Anytime I run the operation I would like to receive different order of elements in the array. Here…
Discover how to sign AWS API Request using DataWeave
MuleSoft and its Partners are publishing many connectors. It’s great as we can quickly and with less overhead start integrating with 3rd parties. However, there are situations where no connector exists. This may happen for smaller or bigger systems. I come across that challenge while trying to call AWS service through its REST API. This…
Set up Anypoint Studio 7.7 – all you need to know
What is the most important thing that a mule developer needs? I think that well configured IDE is the answer. While you can have an appropriate set of skills, without a good toolkit you wouldn’t be as efficient as you could. Therefore in this article I explain how I configure my development environment. I hope that you would enjoy it :).
How to get months and years difference between the two dates?
Some time ago, I was asked to compute the difference between the two dates (Period). Sounds simple, isn’t it? However, I needed this difference presented in days, months, and years. It was not that obvious how to achieve that. Let’ see how I did it. Overview We want to see how long given employee is…
Why Salesforce can’t connect to my API over DLB?
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…
Publish API via CloudHub for Salesforce – connectivity test
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…
Design API in Anypoint Studio 7.5
New Anypoint Studio 7.5 came with an exiting feature. From now on, we can design our APIs in Studio instead of the Design Center. In this article, you will see how it works and how to use it. Let’s see if this can improve our day-to-day tasks. Create an API The first step must be…
Setup quickly MUnits for your project with test recorder
Everyone knows someone that does not like writing unit tests for their code. Maybe you belong to that group. I, on the other hand, prefer to write a test to ensure that my code is as robust as possible. Of course, that does not mean that I have no errors ;). However, I am more…
Publish web socket in the experience layer
Some time ago, MuleSoft introduced Web Socket Connector. In this article, I briefly describe what web socket gives us in the context of integration. The main focus of the article is to show you how to publish a web socket for your consumers. Web Socket So the first question is what a web socket is….