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Layered API design in Azure API Management

Layered API design in Azure API Management

Dec 20, 2021 | API Management

Designing and composing APIs is a very subjective matter and there are many ways to success (and even more to failure).  One approach I’ve always liked is the way MuleSoft describes it.  They define three layers of APIs: Experience APIs: purpose-built APIs for...
Emit custom metrics from Azure API Management

Emit custom metrics from Azure API Management

Dec 16, 2021 | API Management

In the July release of Azure API Management, they’ve added the feature to emit custom metrics to Application Insights.  If you follow my blog, you know that I pay a lot of attention to monitoring, so this is a feature that I definitely wanted to check.  I can...
Easily generate many random API requests with Postman!

Easily generate many random API requests with Postman!

Dec 16, 2021 | API

You might wonder: why would you even want to do this?  Well, in some cases I need to have a randomized data set for testing or education purposes.  Postman is a tool that I use on an almost daily basis, so that’s an obvious choice for me. The scenario In this...
Conditional deployments with Bicep!

Conditional deployments with Bicep!

Sep 24, 2021 | Bicep

Lately, I had to rollout Azure API Management throughout different environments.  With Bicep, of course!  In the development and test environment, we use API Management without network integration.  In the acceptance and production environments, we deploy it internal...