API Gateway and Message Processing Workflows – Circuit Breaker pattern

The article explains the value of message processing workflows by API Gateways, and provides example of an advanced Circuit Breaker workflow implementation. [Continue reading...]

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What is unique in the Messages Processing by a Sentinet API Management Gateway

The article explains how an API Gateway processes messages, and what is unique in how Sentinet API Gateway does it. [Continue reading...]

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Securing, Monitoring and Aggregating Azure Logic Apps with Sentinet API Management

The article demonstrates how you can effectively secure and monitor Azure Logic Apps with Sentinet API Management. [Continue reading...]

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Sending messages to Azure Service Bus Queues using Sentinet API Management and Shared Access Signature

This article demonstrates how you can effectively integrate Sentinet API Management with Azure Service Bus messaging. [Continue reading...]

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Integration of API Management with Azure Active Directory

In this article I will demonstrate how you can effectively integrate API Management with Azure Active Directory as an OAuth/OpenID Connect provider. [Continue reading...]

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What You Should Expect From an API Management Catalog

In this article I will talk about some specific, often overlooked capabilities of an API Catalog when selecting API Management products. I will also emphasize the unique and practical value of those capabilities [Continue reading...]

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Integration of API Management with Azure Service Bus Queues (with Send and Receive messages)

In this article I am going to cover interesting option for integrating API Management with Azure Service Bus Queues and Topics. [Continue reading...]

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Real integration of API Management with Azure Service Bus Relay Service

How to expose internal REST and SOAP APIs via API Management through the Azure Service Bus Relay [Continue reading...]

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API Governance and API Management

Modern cloud services, mobile applications, social media and embedded software in the Internet of Things (IoT) are assembled from multiple bits of discrete code – building blocks (services, components, objects, containers, microservices) that comprise a system or application. For the building blocks to function together they must communicate, and exchange data based on rules that describe how they work. [Continue reading...]

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API Management with Sentinet 5 - Overview

Nevatech Sentinet is the only enterprise class API Management and API Governance platform written in .NET that is available for On-Premise, Cloud and Hybrid environments. It connects, mediates and manages interactions between services across the enterprise or in the cloud.[Continue reading...]

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Managing API Security with Sentinet

Nevatech Sentinet™ API Management helps developers build, provide and consume APIs using both industry standard and custom security models. Developers can delegate some, or all of the responsibilities to handle security on behalf of the API Provider or API Consumer applications to Sentinet.[Continue reading...]

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What you really need to know about securing APIs with mutual certificates

Mutual certificates over SSL/TLS is a standard, “classical” and very popular way of securing REST APIs – but what about challenges in setting up this security model and how to address them properly? [Continue reading...]

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Service Level Agreements in API Management. Basic Setup – part 1

One of the challenges that modern IT businesses face, is the regulation of communications between a service provider and a client. This regulation is often called Service Level Agreement. In API world specifically, SLAs can also be used as a measure to establish Service Level Objectives (SLO), when APIs must be constantly checked against operational and/or contractual metrics. [Continue reading...]

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API Monitoring – why more is better than less!

The success of major modern IT initiatives is highly dependent on the success of the APIs’ development and production operations, which in turn depend on the presence of API Management software infrastructures that support APIs adoption.[Continue reading...]

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How API Gateways help to integrate with OAuth security models - part 3

How to call Salesforce.com API using API Gateways and OAuth security. [Continue reading...]

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How API Gateways help to integrate with OAuth security models - part 2

How to call Microsoft Azure Marketplace APIs using API Gateways and OAuth security. [Continue reading...]

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How API Gateways help to integrate with OAuth security models - part 1

This article describes different scenarios of building effective API integration solutions that require support for OAuth security models [Continue reading...]

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How to enable your API with flexible support for CORS with no code changes

Enable any API with support for Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) with no code changes. [Continue reading...]

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Steef-Jan Wiggers, Microsoft MVP - Summary of the Sentinet blog articles

Summary of the Sentinet blog articles by Steef-Jan Wiggers, a prominent Microsoft MVP and one of the BizTalk Server community leaders. [Continue reading...]

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The Myths and Reality of Services and APIs Discovery and Description

How services and APIs discovery works. [Continue reading...]

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Extending BizTalk ESB Toolkit capabilities with SOA Governance

Sentinet BizTalk Server Extensions enhance BizTalk Server ESB Toolkit capabilities by offering integration with Sentinet - the SOA Governance and API Management software solution for the Microsoft platform. Sentinet BizTalk Server Extensions version 1.0 offers advanced ESB Toolkit SOA Repository Resolver that integrates with BizTalk Server 2013/2013 R2, ESB Toolkit 2.2/2.3 and Visual Studio 2012/2013. [Continue reading...]

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How to manage Service Versioning challenges by service virtualization implementations

In my previous article I described few most notable service virtualization scenarios, their differences and benefits from the SOA Governance and APIs management perspective. In this article I will show how service virtualization concept in general and Sentinet product in particular, provide real benefits for the service and API versioning challenge. I will use the same service virtualization scenarios as before but this time applying virtualization concept to different service versions rather than different services. [Continue reading...]

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SOA Governance - Service Virtualization scenarios and their benefits

Service virtualization is the concept that allows services and APIs to be exposed through an intermediary (or broker) application similarly to how classical reverse proxies forward messages to applications behind them. The difference between “primitive” reverse proxies and service virtualization intermediaries in that the latter are loaded with the intelligence and knowledge of what services and APIs they are actually exposing. This intelligence is what makes virtualization intermediaries a powerful and non-intrusive software instrument in the real-life service brokerage scenarios. [Continue reading...]

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