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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
