Publish/subscribe, Zato services and asynchronous API integrations

Dariusz Suchojad

November 4, 2019

This article introduces features built into Zato that let one take advantage of publish/subscribe topics and message queues in communication between Zato services, API clients and backend systems.

Topics: Publish Subscribe

Bash completion in Zato commands

Dariusz Suchojad

October 31, 2019

This is a quick tip on how to quickly and easily enable Bash completion for Zato commands - each time you press Tab when typing a Zato command, its arguments and parameters will be auto-completed.

Topics: Bash

Windows commands and PowerShell scripts as API microservices

Dariusz Suchojad

July 23, 2019

This post goes through the steps of exposing Windows commans and PowerShell scripts as remote Zato API services that can be invoked by REST clients.

Topics: Windows, PowerShell

Integrating with Microsoft SQL Server via stored procedures

Dariusz Suchojad

July 1, 2019

This article will show you how to invoke MS SQL stored procedures from Zato services - a feature new in the just released version 3.1 of the Python-based integration platform.

Topics: MS SQL

Zato 3.1 Released - Open-Source Python-based API Integrations and Backend Application Server

Dariusz Suchojad

June 18, 2019

The newest version of Zato, the open-source Python-based enterprise API integrations platform and backend application server, is out with a lot of interesting features, changes and additions

Topics: Release

Broadcasting messages to WebSocket API clients

Dariusz Suchojad

June 12, 2019

Invoking individual WebSocket connections has been supported since Zato 3.0 and Zato 3.1 adds new functionality on top of it - message broadcasting - which lets one notify all the clients connected to a particular channel. Here is how to use it.

Topics: WebSockets

API validation with JSON Schema

Dariusz Suchojad

May 13, 2019

Employing JSON Schema is an easy and straightforward way to validate input to your APIs - learn below how it can be enabled in Zato 3.1+ services in one line of code.

Topics: JSON

MongoDB connections

Dariusz Suchojad

March 26, 2019

One of the newest additions in Zato 3.1 are MongDB connections - learn in this article how to create and use them in your Python API services.

Topics: MongoDB, NoSQL

HTTP Method and Accept headers

Dariusz Suchojad

March 18, 2019

Zato 3.1 includes new means to manage access to REST services based on input Method and Accept headers in HTTP requests - here is how they can be employed in practice.

Topics: REST

SFTP connections

Dariusz Suchojad

March 4, 2019

Zato has had support for FTP/FTPS since its inception. In Zato 3.1+, SFTP is also an option to consider for file transfer and this post offers an introduction to the functionality.

Topics: SFTP