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

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

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, Microsoft

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

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

Converting SOAP and WSDL into REST APIs

Dariusz Suchojad

May 3, 2021

Even if most of new APIs today are built around REST, there are still already existing, production applications and systems that expose their APIs using SOAP and WSDL only - in today’s article we are integrating with a SOAP service in order to expose it as a REST interface to external applications.

Topics: SOAP, WSDL, REST

Checking your Zato version details

Dariusz Suchojad

April 26, 2021

The seemingly simple zato --version command packs in several interesting details that are helpful in understanding what Zato version one currently uses - let’s find out what they all mean.

Topics: CLI

Understanding WebSocket API timeouts

Dariusz Suchojad

April 12, 2021

Zato WebSocket channels let you accept long-running API connections and, as such, they have a few settings to fine tune their usage of timeouts. Let’s discover what they are and how to use them.

Topics: WebSockets

API publish/subscribe between Zato services

Dariusz Suchojad

March 28, 2021

One of the additions in the upcoming Zato 3.2 release of is an extension to its publish/subscribe mechanism that lets services publish messages directly to other services. Let’s check how to use it and how it compares to other means of invoking one’s API services. How does it work? In your Zato service, you can publish a message to any other services as below. Simply point self.pubsub.publish to the target service by the latter’s name and it will receive your message.

Topics: Publish Subscribe

Setting advanced options of SQL connection pools

Dariusz Suchojad

February 22, 2021

In this article, we will cover the details of how Zato SQL connection pools can be configured to take advantage of features and options specific to a particular driver or to the SQLAlchemy library.

Topics: SQL