When it comes to implementing a complete solution to create, run, manage, and secure APIs, choosing IBM API Connect is a no brainer. By using API Connect, you not only propel your API strategy, but you also create new customer experiences and generate revenue.
Whether you are new to API Connect or a more experienced user, you can extend your potential for using it with insights from IBM’s own API Connect experts. This post highlights a collection of their knowledge based on their experience in using API Connect while working with IBM Clients. Take a look, and see how you can benefit from their tips to help achieve your API objectives.
by Chris Phillips and Tom Van Oppens
When you are mocking up an API for testing an application, you need the mock-up to be as realistic as possible. By using API Mocka, you can simulate your responses. You can use the Set Variable policy to simulate headers, but until now, a policy wasn’t available to simulate the latency of a back-end system. Meet the API Connect Latency Injector.
by Charlotte Hutchinson
You can configure API Connect for deployment on-premises, in the cloud, or in a hybrid cloud. This article highlights tips and tricks for a quick on-premises installation based on experiences learned from working with API Connect users.
by Chris Phillips
Testing your API implementation is critical, but it's not always easy. Sometimes your back-end services aren’t set up to handle the load of testing. Even worse, they might go down altogether. Learn how you can use API Mocka for a simple way to stub back-end systems. By using it, you can test and optimize your API implementation without relying on direct access to services.
by Charlotte Hutchinson and Jack Dunleavy
Streamline theme customization in the IBM API Connect Developer Portal. Our API Connect experts share their five tips based on their work with clients who needed help with themes.
by Chris Phillips, Charlotte Hutchinson, and Jack Dunleavy
By using the API Connect Impact Analysis tool tool, you can assess your API catalog on API Connect. The tool then returns any dependencies between your APIs, applications, products, plans, and back-end services. See how the API Connect Impact Analysis tool works and how to use it.
by John Santoro
Enrich your mobile apps by invoking REST APIs with the power of your enterprise assets. Although this might sound easy, it can be difficult to find the APIs you need, learn about them, and then know how to use them. Learn how you can use API Connect to accelerate your mobile apps.
by Charlotte Hutchinson, Chris Phillips, and Jack Dunleavy
Integration between API Connect and IBM MQ is vital for reliable messaging. This integration was previously not available for environments that use back-end systems to communicate through MQ. Thanks to a new custom policy for API Connect to integrate with IBM MQ, you can seamlessly create public-facing APIs to work with your back-end systems. See how to use this custom policy to integrate an instance of API Connect with an MQ queue manager.
by Ahmed Abbas, Mohab El-Hilaly, and Gihad Abdelhamid
Online payment is an example of a service that is essential for almost any e-commerce application that you might build. In this article, follow an example of using IBM Bluemix and third-party payment service APIs to build applications that accept online payment. This approach is based on API consumption. This way, you can easily modify the code to match the APIs of your payment service provider of choice.
by Chris Phillips and Jack Dunleavy
This article describes a user-defined policy that enables flexible logging within the API Connect assembly. By using this policy, you can write custom messages to the IBM DataPower log with control over the message severity level and with full access to context variables. You can use this policy when creating assembly flows for debug and diagnosis and in production ready flows as a monitoring tool.
by Sally Fikry and Chris Phillips
Learn how you can use both IBM WebSphere Service Registry and Repository and API Connect together for hybrid cloud integration. By combining their features, you get optimum business value and strengthen your business.
by Charlotte Hutchinson, Chris Phillips, and Jörgen Persson
Security is crucial when you are exposing back-end data services to applications, in particular to web and mobile applications. See how you can add Transport Layer Security (TLS) profiles in API Connect to connect your APIs to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)-enabled back-end systems.
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