zato-apitest 1.12 - API testing for humans

Dariusz Suchojad

October 28, 2018

Version 1.12 of zato-apitest 1.12 has just been released. This version simplifies installation requirements and adds compatibility with PostgreSQL 10+ databases.

Topics: API Testing

Managing live WebSocket API clients

Dariusz Suchojad

October 14, 2018

Zato-based WebSockets are a great choice for high-performance API integrations. WebSockets have minimal overhead, which, coupled with their ability to invoke services in a synchronous manner, means that large numbers of clients can easily connect to Zato API servers.

Topics: WebSockets

Connecting Zato clusters with WebSockets and publish/subscribe queues

Dariusz Suchojad

September 3, 2018

Since version 3.0, it is possible to directly connect Zato clusters and exchange messages as though remote services where running in a local instance. This makes it an ideal choice for environments split into multiple parts.

Topics: WebSockets

Zato 3.0 release announcement

Dariusz Suchojad

June 2, 2018

Zato 3.0 has just been released - this is a major release that brings a lot of immensely interesting API integration features.

Topics: Release

Single Sign-On and User Management APIs at a Glance

Dariusz Suchojad

April 3, 2018

As an enterprise integration platform and backend, API-oriented, application server, Zato 3.0 ships with Single Sign-On and User Management APIs whose many exciting features are detailed in this blog post.

Topics: SSO

Load-balancing HTTP and WebSocket channels with Docker in AWS

Dariusz Suchojad

March 10, 2018

With the addition of WebSocket channels in Zato 3.0, a question arises of how to combine both HTTP and WebSocket channels in Zato environments. This article shows how a Docker container running in AWS can be configured to expose a single port to handle both kind of requests, including health-status checks from Amazon’s ALB (Application Load Balancer).

Topics: WebSockets

WebSphere MQ programming in Python with Zato

Dariusz Suchojad

January 29, 2018

WebSphere MQ is a messaging middleware by IBM - a message queue server - and this post shows how to integrate with MQ from Python and Zato.

Topics: IBM MQ

PyCharm and Visual Studio Code integration for Zato API services

Dariusz Suchojad

January 16, 2018

With Zato 3.0, we are excited to announce some popular development environments now have integrated support for hot-deploying Zato services directly from the comfort of your favourite text editor.

Topics: PyCharm, VS Code, IDE

API caching in Zato. Part 1 - Introduction.

Dariusz Suchojad

December 18, 2017

One of many exciting features that the upcoming Zato 3.0 release will bring is API caching - this post provides an overiew of functionality that is already available if you install Zato directly from source code.

Topics: Cache

Building a protocol-agnostic API for SMS text messaging with Zato and Twilio

Dariusz Suchojad

September 18, 2017

This blog post discusses an integration scenario that showcases a new feature in Zato 3.0 - SMS texting with Twilio.

Topics: SMS, Twilio