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Configuring API details via environment variables

Dariusz Suchojad
February 15, 2021
Today, we are looking at how environment variables can be used to let the configuration of your Zato-based API services be reusable across environments - this will help you centralise all of your configuration artefacts without a need for changes when code is promoted across environments of different levels.

Topics: Configuration, Docker, CLI

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Integrating with IBM MQ in Python

Dariusz Suchojad
February 8, 2021
Using Zato, it is easy to make IBM MQ queues available to Python applications - this article will lead you step-by-step through the process of setting up the Python integration platform to listen for MQ messages and to send them to MQ queue managers.

Topics: IBM MQ

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New REST programming examples

Dariusz Suchojad
January 15, 2021
As we are preparing to release Zato 3.2 soon, all the programming examples are being rewritten to showcase what the platform is capable of. That includes REST examples too and this article presents a few samples taken from the documentation.

Topics: REST

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What is an API gateway?

Dariusz Suchojad
January 11, 2021
In this article, we are going to use Zato in its capacity as a multi-protocol Python API gateway - we will integrate a few popular technologies, accepting requests sent over protocols commonly used in frontend systems, enriching and passing them to backend systems and returning responses to the API clients using their preferred data formats.

Topics: API Gateway

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Diving deep into REST API channels

Dariusz Suchojad
January 4, 2021
We begin in 2021 with a deep dive into Zato REST API channels. What are they? How to use them efficiently? How can they configured for maximum flexibility? Read on to learn all the details.

Topics: REST

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Configuring REST channels for CORS

Dariusz Suchojad
December 14, 2020
With the rise of Single-Page Applications (SPA) in web frontends, it is often the case that backend REST APIs based on Zato need to be configured for CORS. This article will explore what CORS is and how to make Zato participate in scenarios using it.

Topics: REST, CORS

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Multi-protocol file transfer integrations

Dariusz Suchojad
December 7, 2020
In many domains, transfer of static and batch files is an important part of systems integrations and a large number of applications produce and expect data in the form of files rather than network-based APIs. In this article, we shall see how Zato makes multi-protocol integrations of this kind possible in a way that is secure, scalable and easy to extend in Python.

Topics: File transfer