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

Working with LDAP and Active Directory

Dariusz Suchojad

March 10, 2019

A feature new in Zato 3.1 is the ability to connect to LDAP servers, including Active Directory instances, and this article covers basic administration as programming tasks involved in their usage from Python code.

Topics: LDAP, Active Directory

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

Two-factor authentication in web-admin

Dariusz Suchojad

February 25, 2019

This post provides steps needed to enable and make use of TOTP two-factor authentication in Zato web-admin - the method is compatible with the most popular apps such as Google Authenticator, Authy or FreeOTP.

Topics: 2FA, SSO

Deploying 700 services a second with one CPU

Dariusz Suchojad

February 18, 2019

As of today, everyone building Zato from source will notice a significant decrease in time needed for servers to start and stop - it is now possible for an entire server to boot up to a fully functional state in less than two seconds and to shut down in half a second.

Topics: Tip

Zato: A successful Python 3 migration story

Dariusz Suchojad

February 11, 2019

Now that Python 3 support is available as a preview for developers, this post summarizes the effort that went into making sure that Zato works smoothly using both Python 2.7 and 3.x.

Topics: Tip