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SaaS Integration Challenges? MuleSoft has the solution

Amelia Cady on Friday, January 27, 2012

Are you facing SaaS integration challenges? A recent survey of SaaS and cloud vendors found integration to be the #1 hurdle in the SaaS sales process, with almost 90% of respondents considering integration to be important or extremely important in winning new customers. Customer concerns about integration represent both a threat and an opportunity for [...]

Zuora and MuleSoft: Integration Should Be This Easy

Ross Mason on Tuesday, January 24, 2012

You may have noticed that we announced a partnership with Zuora, the company behind the leading SaaS subscription billing service (often touted as the Salesforce of billing). This is no ordinary announcement. We are truly excited about what this means for the future of integration. SaaS is changing the application landscape, offering better applications at [...]

DevKit Feature Spotlight: Connection Management

Emiliano Lesende on Tuesday, January 17, 2012

The DevKit is a tool for accelerating the development of Mule extensions. A popular Mule extension is what we call a Cloud Connector. A Cloud Connector provides Mule with the ability to receive and send messages to/from a cloud service provider. We do not make assumptions about whether that service provider is a REST-based service, [...]

PaaS and Open APIs: Ninja slicing the application stack

Ross Mason on Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Application stacks are so passé, now its all about the slice. With the rise of open APIs we are seeing a new breed of application. Infrastructure APIs are cropping up everywhere for doing things like email, FTP, monitoring and management, analytics and application security.  These slices of functionality, delivered as services, remove the time consuming [...]

Get real-time with the new SalesForce API

Federico Recio on Monday, November 28, 2011

Before streaming APIs, if you wanted to know if there were any updates on a specific event you had to query the API periodically and check if updates indeed occurred. Most likely, many of these queries would probably return no results as no new event happened but still resources were consumed in the process including [...]

The benefits of APIs, my top 10 and why you should use them

Ross Mason on Tuesday, November 22, 2011

At QCon SF last week I gave my talk on DevOps to NoOps: 10 cloud services you should be using. I talked about what I call the API explosion and how that impacts the way we build applications before introducing my list. I focused on infrastructure APIs because I believe these have the biggest impact [...]

Connector of the Week: Using the LinkedIn API

Federico Recio on Monday, November 21, 2011

Of all the professional networks available LinkedIn has clearly taken the lead with more than 120 million members. Do you use LinkedIn? Most likely you do! That’s why we thought it’s important to have a Cloud Connector to interact with LinkedIn and take advantage of its social power.

Security in the Cloud: Protecting Your Applications

Sweta Vajjhala on Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Security around public cloud offerings has always been a major point of concern (and controversy) for users. How do cloud providers protect customer data? How is log data protected? How is the surrounding infrastructure secured? We previous talked about how iON stays up and running even through EC2 outages. Today, we will talk about iON [...]

Give your application a voice of its own with Twilio

Emiliano Lesende on Monday, November 14, 2011

The last time we talked I show you how you can easily build RESTful APIs on top of iON.  I just covered just a very narrow scenario, the sky is the limit when talking about the kind of integrations that you can build using iON. So this week I’m going to walk you through another interesting use [...]

Writing your first Cloud Conector using the DevKit

Federico Recio on Wednesday, November 9, 2011

In this blog post I will show how to extend Mule in a simple way using the recently released Mule DevKit. The goal of the Mule DevKit is to accelerate the development of Mule extensions by abstracting you from Mule specific stuff so that you just focus on what your are trying to build. My [...]