Category Archives for API

BUILD 2021 NEWS: “Native support for WebSocket APIs in Azure API Management”

May 26, 2021
/ API API Management Azure API Management Azure News
/ By rasmusg

Native support for WebSocket APIs (public preview) in Azure API Management. This enables you to manage, protect, observe, and expose your WebSocket API in API Management, alongside REST and SOAP APIs. It

Working with HTTP errors in PowerShell

April 20, 2021
/ API Azure PowerShell PowerShell
/ By rasmusg

PowerShell is a great language to query REST APIs. When I call a REST API, I usually expect things to go well, but sometimes it doesn’t. So, how should I handle HTTP errors like 404, 403, and so

The API Management Landscape in 2020

October 2, 2020
/ API API Management
/ By rasmusg

Every year Gartner publish their Magic Quadrant covering the landscape of API Management vendors. This year, luckily, is no exception. Gartner has released their “Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full

Debug API Management policies in real time

September 29, 2020
/ API API Management Azure API Management Azure News
/ By rasmusg

Microsoft recently announced that the latest release of the Visual Studio Code extension for API Management introduces the ability to debug policies configured in your Azure API Management services in

How to get a ‘Request Trace’ in Azure API Management

June 11, 2020
/ API API Management Azure API Management
/ By rasmusg

This blog post is a no-nonsense guide to acquire a Request Trace in Azure API Management. A Request Trace is a JSON document that contains valuable information about a request/response sent to API’s

Open API Specification 3 support in Azure API Management is now GA (generally available)

February 16, 2020
/ API API Management Azure API Management
/ By rasmusg

Open API Specification 3 (OAS3) has been around for a while now, and the Azure API Management team has worked on its OAS3 implementation for a good 1,5 years. But now, finally, the OAS3 support is generally

Azure API Management: Authorization Level Based Content in the Developer Portal

November 26, 2018
/ API API Management Azure API Management
/ By rasmusg

When developing API-software in an API-first world, the user experience is important. When developing APIs and leveraging the API ecosystem, you will see that providing a great developer experience and

Azure API Management: Hiding Developer Portal from anonymous users [step-by-step guide]

November 22, 2018
/ API API Management Azure API Management
/ By rasmusg

Azure API Management is Microsoft’s turnkey solution for administrating and publishing APIs to external and internal customers; and for many development teams, Azure API Management is part of the

Touchpoints of a REST API

April 20, 2018
/ API API Management Azure API Management
/ By rasmusg

When developing a REST API we often think of it as an HTTP web service running on some web servers. But that is only the tip of the iceberg; professional API developers know that a successful REST API

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This is my blog about API Management and Microsoft Azure – Especially Azure API Management, Azure PaaS, Azure Compute, and Azure Migration.

What is API Management?
API Management is the process of creating and publishing web APIs. This API Management process covers: enforcing API usage policies, controlling access, subscriber community features, collecting and analyzing usage statistics, and reporting on performance.

What is Microsoft Azure?
It is a cloud computing service created by Microsoft for building, testing, deploying, and managing applications and services through Microsoft-managed data centers.
It provides software as a service (SaaS), platform as a service (PaaS) and infrastructure as a service (IaaS) and supports many different programming languages, tools, and frameworks, including both Microsoft-specific and third-party software and systems.