Stanislav DeviatovArticles
🔍 A Buy-now, Pay-later Use Case for Arazzo
The Arazzo Specification, a description language for APIs, can be applied across various industries, including financial services where APIs often need to be called in sequence for operations like account opening and payments. A specific use case is the Buy-now, Pay-later (BNPL) service which typically requires multiple API calls to secure a loan at the point of purchase.
🔍 Choosing the Right Messaging System: Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, and NATS Compared
The article compares five popular messaging systems: Apache Kafka, Redis, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, and NATS, in terms of their core features, scalability, performance, complexity, and typical use cases. The author concludes that each system is best suited for specific scenarios, with Kafka ideal for real-time data streaming, Redis for real-time analytics, RabbitMQ for complex routing, ActiveMQ for enterprise application integration, and NATS for lightweight, low-latency messaging in microservices architectures.
🔍 Control Flow — The Other Half of Integration Patterns
The article discusses the importance of control flow in asynchronous systems and how it can be represented using the Enterprise Integration Patterns (EIP) icons. Gregor Hohpe explains how control flow, which determines the operational characteristics of a distributed system like scalability, robustness, or latency, can be represented using different shapes and directions in the EIP icons, and how this visual language can simplify the understanding of complex distributed systems.
🔍 Debezium asynchronous engine
The article discusses the new implementation of Debezium engine, AsyncEmbeddedEngine, which addresses the main shortcomings of the previous EmbeddedEngine. The new engine allows connectors to execute multiple tasks and aims to run record processing in parallel. It also introduces new configuration options related to thread management. The author also mentions that starting from Debezium 2.6.0.Alpha2, Debezium server has switched to use AsyncEmbeddedEngine. The article concludes with future plans for the Debezium engine, including a switch to Java 21, performance testing, and adding support for gRPC and Protocol Buffers.
🔍 RabbitMQ Queue Types Explained
The article discusses the different types of queues in RabbitMQ: Classic Queues, Quorum Queues, Stream Queues, and MQTT QoS 0 Queue. Each queue type caters to different use cases and offers unique features. Classic Queues are suitable for less critical applications, Quorum Queues ensure high availability and data safety, Stream Queues are ideal for high throughput scenarios, and MQTT QoS 0 Queue provides fast, low-latency messaging in large-scale use cases.
🔍 Service Meshes vs. API Gateways: Roles, Benefits, and Common Pitfalls Explained
Service meshes and API gateways are key in modern application development, managing communication between microservices and routing incoming requests respectively. They simplify management, enhance security, and facilitate scalability. However, potential pitfalls include overengineering, complexity in configuration, performance overhead, and vendor lock-in. Understanding these tools' roles, benefits, and potential issues is crucial for effective application development.
🔍 Should You Build Or Buy OpenAPI Tooling?
Building your own OpenAPI tools can be beneficial for specific use cases, version support, and ownership. However, the vast ecosystem of OpenAPI tools can cater to most developers' needs, making buying or using open-source tools a viable option. The article suggests that the decision depends on the specific needs and context of the organization or project. It also proposes the idea of tooling "profiles" that describe features important to a well-defined use case to help guide the decision.
🔍 Using TypeSpec to Design APIs
TypeSpec allows developers to create components that can be reused across services and aims to be lightweight, familiar, and easy to use. The article provides a tutorial on how to design APIs with TypeSpec, covering topics such as services and servers, routes and resources, path and query parameters, headers, request and response bodies, and status codes.
The author highlights the benefits of API definitions, including consistency, standardization, improved collaboration, automated documentation, easier maintenance, and enhanced testing. The article also compares different API specifications such as OpenAPI, RAML, and API Blueprint, each with its unique features and advantages. The author concludes by emphasizing the importance of choosing the right API definition for the success of an API project.
🔍 What is the Arazzo Specification?
The article provides a detailed guide on how to use the Arazzo Specification, highlighting its benefits such as improved consistency, enhanced collaboration, automated API documentation generation, easier maintenance, and enhanced testing.
Mulesoft
🔍 Event-Driven Architecture Support on Anypoint Platform
MuleSoft has introduced new features allow organizations to design, govern, and implement AsyncAPI 2.6 specifications for event-driven applications. The platform simplifies the creation of AsyncAPI specifications, ensures robust security and compliance, and promotes reuse and collaboration by allowing the publishing of AsyncAPI specifications to MuleSoft’s public marketplace. It also automates most of the implementation work, reducing the complexity of interacting with event brokers and message queues.
🔍 Overview of MuleSoft Monitoring and Observability
Mulesoft has introduced new features including API Insights, Anypoint Visualizer, Tracing Experience, and Telemetry Explorer, as well as a revamped usage dashboard, to cover the entire API and integration lifecycle, and to provide a more granular understanding of product consumption.
🔍 Streaming Strategies in Mule 4
Mule 4 offers data streaming strategies to process large data files and prevent memory errors. The two types of streaming strategies are Non-Repeatable, where the payload is read only once, and Repeatable, where the payload can be read multiple times and stored in memory or on disk depending on the configuration. The blog post provides a detailed explanation of these strategies, including examples and demos, and offers general considerations to prevent out-of-memory errors when dealing with large files.
Red Hat
🔍 Camel integration quarterly digest: Q2 2024
Red Hat has introduced several new features and enhancements in its build of Apache Camel 4.4, including support for JDK 21, new components like Jasypt security and Splunk, and new tools such as Kaoto visual designer and HawtIO diagnostic console. Red Hat Fuse 7 has entered the Extended Lifecycle Support phase, and the company recommends transitioning to the Red Hat build of Apache Camel 4 for modern integration needs.
Releases
Apache Camel 4.7 has been released, introducing several new features and improvements. These include fixes and improvements to the route template, the addition of remote performance counters to CamelContext and Routes, enhancements to Camel JBang, more trace decorators for components, and a multi-release effort to clean up the base class used for testing. The release also includes new components such as camel-activemq6, camel-smooks, and camel-openapi-validator.
Apache Kafka 3.8.0 has been released, featuring numerous new features and improvements. Notable updates include support for multiple log directories in Tiered Storage, a configuration mechanism to specify compression level, and the introduction of KIP-848, the next generation of the Consumer Rebalance Protocol. The release also deprecates the offsets.commit.required.acks configuration value and marks ZooKeeper as deprecated. New components include support for a customizable task assignment for Streams, shareable State Stores, and the addition of a PATCH method for connector config in Connect REST API.
The release includes several breaking changes, new features, and improvements across various components including Core, Db2, JDBC, MariaDB, MongoDB, MySQL, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Cassandra, Vitess, Debezium Server, and Kubernetes Operator. Notable enhancements include support for Db2 on z/OS, MariaDB dialect support for the JDBC sink connector, a new standalone connector implementation for MariaDB, and improved temporal support in Vitess.
Books
📚 Automating API Delivery: APIOps with OpenAPI by Ikenna Nwaiwu
The book introduces the tools and strategies behind APIOps. You’ll discover tools and process improvements that give you important quick wins, including API governance using the Spectral API linter and establishing an efficient CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions. You’ll even discover how to use the powerful OpenAPI Generator to automatically create client and server code from your API definitions.
📚 API Hacking Exposed: A Comprehensive Guide to Vulnerability Discovery by Yitzhak Lurie
The book provides a thorough exploration of API security, covering fundamental concepts, common vulnerabilities, advanced attack techniques, and best practices for vulnerability discovery and mitigation. The author highlights key features of the book, including comprehensive coverage of API security principles, practical guidance for discovering and mitigating API vulnerabilities, real-world case studies, insights into the latest tools and techniques for securing APIs, guidance on compliance requirements, and exploration of emerging trends in API security.
