API CORS Support with Azure API Management

In a Single Page Applications architecture, APIs are used for the application integration with a backend service. When both the SPA and API are hosted on the same domain name, the integration is simple, and the client application can call the APIs directly. When the SPA and API are hosted on different...

Create API Mocks with Azure APIM and Postman Echo Service

When kicking off a new API integration project, we often star by getting the technical specifications on the external API. The specifications should often come in the form of an OpenAPI Specification or a JSON schema definition. It is often the case, that the external API may not be available for the...

Improve User Experience with React Code Splitting and Lazy Loading Routes

When building single page applications, SPA. The application load time performance is very important as this improves the user experience. As development teams mostly focus on functional requirements, there is a tendency to skip some of the non-function requirements like performance improvements. The...

How to Manage JavaScript Project Dependencies with NPM

When working with JavaScript projects, we use the Node Package Manager (NPM) to manage our package dependencies. NPM is a Command Line Interface (CLI) tool that enables developers to add, remove, and update package dependencies in our projects. Due to security vulnerabilities, bugs and enhancements,...

Improve App Performance with In-Memory Cache and Real-Time Integration

In the presentation, we discuss some of the performance problems that exists when using an API to SQL Server integration on a high transaction systems with thousands of concurrent clients and several client tools that are used for statistical analysis.Telemetry Data StoryDevices send telemetry data...

Visual Studio Code C++ Development

Visual Studio Code (VSCode) is a software development tool that is used to program in multiple programming languages. It is also a cross-platform integrated development environment tool (IDE) which runs on Linux, Windows and MacOS.  To use VSCode for a particular programming language, we need...

Visual Studio Code Online - Quick Intro

Visual Studio Code (VSCode) Online is a browser hosted IDE for software development purposes. It works similarly as the full version of VSCode.  You can access VSCode Online by visiting https://vscode.dev.  After the IDE is loaded on your browser, you can connect to any GitHub repo,...

Orchestrate Multiple API Calls in a Single Request with an API Gateway

When building apps, a common integration pattern is the use of the microservice architecture. This architecture enables us to create lightweight loosely-couple services, which the app can consume and process the information for specific purposes or workflows. Sometimes, we do not control these microservices,...

Reduce code complexity by letting an API Gateway handle disparate services and document transformation

Modern Web applications use the microservice architecture for their API service integration. These APIs are often a combination of internal and external systems. When the system is internal, there is better control of the API endpoints and contract payload which the front-end components consume....