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International Women’s Day

Inspired by international women’s day, we wanted to know how the women in our own company feel about their position in the IT industry. Unfortunately, we still see that the perception lives that the IT world is a man’s world and we wanted to give

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How to organize your Axway B2Bi Managed File Transfers

Introduction  Axway B2BI provides powerful tools to integrate b2b flows of an organization both with external parties or multiple internal applications. This post describes a way to set up and organize these transfers. To pick up and deliver files there will be a preference to use sftp using public key authentication. This can be

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From WS-Security to API Message Security?

API Management – and application integration in general – go hand in hand with good security practices. It is crucial to protect the message exchanges between all the systems we link together. This article focuses on the integrity of API requests and responses. Where we

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Apigee X trial (Google Cloud)

Apigee X is the latest product version of Google’s Apigee API Management platform. Adding a 4 product version next to Apigee Edge (SAAS), Apigee for Private Cloud and Apigee Hybrid. Apigee X is best described as a version of Apigee Hybrid that is (almost) fully managed by Google. There is a

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Guard your Kubernetes Cluster with OPA and Azure Policy

Context At one of our clients, we have multiple development teams all creating microservices. These microservices are deployed with a CI/CD (Continuous Integration and Delivery) pipeline to a shared Kubernetes cluster. We strive to give much responsibility and flexibility to these development teams in order

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Implementing new MIG6 market communication at Engie

Introduction Implementing new MIG6 market communication at Engie. Let’s start with a brief introduction about what MIG6 actually represents, before diving in the more technical details in how Engie, as a supplier, plays a role in this. So MIG6, which stands for ‘market implementation guidelines’,

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How to test SAP IDocs with your integration platform

SAP is and remains a tremendously popular ERP application. As integration specialists, we are all confronted one day with the integration of SAP. SAP has quite some history and one of the mechanisms it supports for integration are the so called IDocs. As an integration

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Setting up a SQL Server with Change Data Capture (CDC)

Setting up a SQL Server with Change Data Capture (CDC)

Moving towards an event driven environment Context While more corporations are seeing the benefits of adapting to an event-driven architecture, it’s time to take a dive into the Change Data Capture (CDC) functionality and all its merits. CDC is a database service that enables the

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Red Hat Fuse monitoring, debugging and alerting

Introduction When an integration layer is in place not every user has an overview on where his request is heading, through what layers it is passing or where it encountered error. In this article I will describe a basic solution to monitor, debug and be

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Apigee partnership

i8c is a Google Cloud Premier Partner, together with other companies of the Cronos group (and Localyse). Within the Google offering, i8c likes to leverage the Google Cloud Platform (GCP) with its Kubernetes, Istio, Google Pub/Sub and other. But primary focus of i8c is Apigee,

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SAG Broker 10.5 migration

1. Introduction   After Software AG has announced a possible end of life of webMethods Broker and recommended a migration to Universal Messaging, they come out with a new version of webMethods Broker 10.5.  The new version of webMethods is similar to Broker 9.6 with resolved issues and including the following fixes:  BR_9.6_Core_Fix22  BR_9.6_Core_Fix21 

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