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Enforce the global policy in Azure API Management

Jun 7, 2022 | API Management

How to read form-urlencoded data in Azure API Management?

Feb 7, 2022 | API Management

Lately, I had the requirement to access data from the incoming HTTP body, which was form-urlencoded (Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded). I assumed this was something simple to do, however it turned out more complex than expected. HttpUtility? My first...

Protect your API program with a single Azure AD RBAC policy!

Feb 4, 2022 | API Management

Azure API Management’s default security mechanism is built on top of subscriptions. Whilst this is a very simple way to protect your APIs, it’s often not secure enough. Many scenarios require the APIs to be protected with OAuth2, which is perfectly...

Send API inspector traces to Application Insights

Dec 22, 2021 | API Management

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

Dec 21, 2021 | 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...

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...

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