The API Economy in 2018: Predictions

ICYMI: The proliferation of APIs across all facets of life continued to explode in 2017. As we reflect on the past year, we have a few thoughts on where we see the API economy heading in 2018. [Before we jump in – see our past predictions for 2017].

Openness Is The Standard

Looking ahead to what is on the horizon for 2018, we see the accelerating momentum of being more open and transparent through APIs. There are a few different sectors where you can see this really mobilizing. The first is in financial systems, with the catalyst of PSD2 adoption. Europe leads in privacy laws and this open initiative is forcing large financial institutions to consider how they would openly connect to the public market with transparent and secure APIs. https://goo.gl/hBEWB4 #DataIntegration #ML

Managing Mule Schedules With Anypoint Runtime Manager

Mule ESB applications allow you to integrate different systems. Frequently, we need to schedule processing at a certain time or interval. Mule provides two components to add scheduled polling functionality to your flow – quartz:inbound-endpoint and poll scope. It’s easy to add a scheduler to the application but it might get tricky to maintain it after deployment. In this article, we will see the challenges in managing applications with schedules and how Anypoint Platform’s Runtime Manager helps us to make life easy.

As of Mule 3.9, Quartz connector is marked as deprecated and Poll scope is recommended over Quartz. Quartz connector will not be available in Mule 4.0. We will be using Poll Scope in this example. https://goo.gl/oJTuHU #DataIntegration #ML