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Web scraping as an API service

Dariusz Suchojad
May 18, 2022
In systems-to-systems integrations, there comes an inevitable time when we have to employ some kind of a web scraping tool to integrate with a particular application. Despite its not being our first choice, it is good to know what to use at such a time - in this article, I provide a gentle introduction to my favourite tool of this kind, called Playwright.

Topics: Atlassian, Jira, API, Web scraping

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Integrating with Jira APIs

Dariusz Suchojad
May 16, 2022
Continuing in the series of articles about newest cloud connections in Zato 3.2, this episode covers Atlassian Jira from the perspective of invoking its APIs to build integrations between Jira and other systems.

Topics: API, Atlassian, Jira

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Integrating with Salesforce in Python

Dariusz Suchojad
May 2, 2022
Salesforce connections are one of the newest additions to Zato 3.2, allowing you to look up and manage Salesforce records and other business data. To showcase it, the article will create a sample Salesforce marketing campaign in a way that does not require the usage of anything else except for basic REST APIs combined with plain Python objects, such as dicts.

Topics: API, Salesforce

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Zato architecture primer

Dariusz Suchojad
April 25, 2022
Zato is a Python-based middleware and backend platform designed for integrating and building server-side systems. The platform belongs to a broader family of solutions that, depending on one’s background, will be known under the name of an integration layer, integration platform, service-oriented platform, enterprise service bus, API server, message bus, message queue, message broker, orchestration engine or similar.

Topics: Architecture, Documentation, API, Publish-Subscribe, Scheduler

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Remote API debugging with VS Code

Dariusz Suchojad
January 24, 2022
Visual Studio Code offers excellent means to debug remote API servers without a need to ever leave your IDE. This post is a step-by-step guide describing the process of configuring your local VS Code instance for remote Python and Zato code debugging.

Topics: API, VSCode, IDE, Debugging, Tutorial

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API development workflow with Zato

Dariusz Suchojad
January 10, 2022
Zato is an integration platform and backend application server which means that, during most of their projects, developers using Zato are interested in a few specific matters that I am covering in this article.

Topics: API, Dashboard, Automation, OpenAPI

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Enterprise API integrations under Windows

Dariusz Suchojad
September 15, 2021
If you are on Windows, looking for an integration platform to connect your APIs, systems, applications, backend resources or mobile apps, I am happy to let you know that Zato now supports Windows natively - read on for more details on how to get started with it.

Topics: API, Windows

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Scalable API and AI architectures

Dariusz Suchojad
July 9, 2021
Building scalable, high-performance API and AI integrated environments requires a consistent vision and tenets to establish it on. From this article, you can learn how to design your own API and AI architectures based on what our vision is and how it is executed.

Topics: API, AI, Architecture

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Resilient REST APIs with SSL/TLS client certificates

Dariusz Suchojad
May 10, 2021
This Zato how-to is about ensuring that only API clients with valid SSL/TLS certificates, including expected certificate fingerprints or other metadata, can invoke selected REST endpoints. In this way, we are making access to the endpoints secure and, at the same time, we can guard against a class of faults related to the Certificate Authority infrastructure.

Topics: REST, Security, SSL-TLS