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Topic: api

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Dariusz Suchojad
August 15, 2022

SSH commands as API microservices

This is a quick guide on how to turn SSH commands into a REST API service. The use-case may be remote administration of devices or equipment that does not offer a REST interface or making sure that access to SSH commands is restricted to selected external REST-based API clients only.

Topics:SSH, API, REST

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Dariusz Suchojad
June 21, 2022

How to integrate with Confluence APIs

In this tutorial, one in the series that covers Atlassian APIs, I will show how to integrate with Confluence, how to connect to your wiki and how to extract information from it using Python.

Topics:Atlassian, Confluence, API

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Dariusz Suchojad
May 18, 2022

Web scraping as an API service

In systems-to-systems integrations, there comes an inevitable time when we have to employ some kind of a web scraping tool to integrate with a particular application. Despite its not being our first choice, it is good to know what to use at such a time - in this article, I provide a gentle introduction to my favourite tool of this kind, called Playwright.

Topics:Atlassian, Jira, API, Web scraping

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Dariusz Suchojad
May 16, 2022

Integrating with Jira APIs

Continuing in the series of articles about newest cloud connections in Zato 3.2, this episode covers Atlassian Jira from the perspective of invoking its APIs to build integrations between Jira and other systems.

Topics:API, Atlassian, Jira

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Dariusz Suchojad
May 2, 2022

Integrating with Salesforce in Python

Salesforce connections are one of the newest additions to Zato 3.2, allowing you to look up and manage Salesforce records and other business data. To showcase it, the article will create a sample Salesforce marketing campaign in a way that does not require the usage of anything else except for basic REST APIs combined with plain Python objects, such as dicts.

Topics:API, Salesforce

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Dariusz Suchojad
April 25, 2022

Zato architecture primer

Zato is a Python-based middleware and backend platform designed for integrating and building server-side systems. The platform belongs to a broader family of solutions that, depending on one’s background, will be known under the name of an integration layer, integration platform, service-oriented platform, enterprise service bus, API server, message bus, message queue, message broker, orchestration engine or similar.

Topics:Architecture, Documentation, API, Publish-Subscribe, Scheduler

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Dariusz Suchojad
January 24, 2022

Remote API debugging with VS Code

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

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Dariusz Suchojad
January 10, 2022

API development workflow with Zato

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