Last week, I spoke at the INTEGRATE conference. During my talk, I've conducted a survey about Azure API Management. 200 attendees participated in this survey, which leads to interesting insights! You can discover them here.
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Send API inspector traces to Application Insights
In the December 2020 release of Azure API Management, there was a release note that drew my attention: You can now log API inspector traces to Application Insights and Azure Monitor by setting the verbosity property of the service/diagnostics resource to debug. Azure...
Dynamically expose Open API definitions in Azure API Management
Open API is currently the most common used API standard out there. API Management has full support for this standard. The basis of this standard is the Open API definition (often referred to as "Swagger" - the tooling), which describes all the functionality that a...
Layered API design in Azure 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
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 tell you...
Easily generate many random API requests with Postman!
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 case, I...
Container Apps: the missing piece of the Azure compute puzzle!
At Ignite, Azure Container Apps was introduced! According to the announcement, Container Apps is a serverless application centric hosting service where users do not see or manage any underlying VMs, orchestrators, or other cloud infrastructure. Azure Container Apps...