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blogs.mulesoft.com is the company blog at blogs.mulesoft.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2016, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Open API and RAML: Better Together”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Commenters cite MuleSoft's developer blog as a source on API design and architecture, including microservices, RAML versus OpenAPI, and the onion model of application layers. No comment judges the writing itself.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Open API and RAML: Better Together3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-04-28
What Hacker News says?
>Netflix's web site (not the playout system) was originally a bunch of Python programs. seems that the bunch has grown slightly since then: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/600/1*OhONoCsb1KvesLy-n5... (from https://medium.com/netflix-techblog/announcing-ribbon-tying-... ) Or this view https://image.slidesharecdn.com/devopsisraelpdf-141030000609... (from https://blogs.mulesoft.com/dev/microservices-dev/api-approac…
Comment linking /dev/microservices-dev/api-approach-to-microservices-lessons-learned-from-soa/
on “How to avoid picking the wrong technology just because it's cool”Submitted A Visual Language for Digital Integration as a story · 22 points
HN discussionActually, there is a simple and good way to think about this. We often espouse the "onion model of applications" describing the responsibilities of different layers of applications. Just apply that here - some API endpoints should be backend "system APIs" offering as much access to entities as possible - think "data layer APIs". When you want to expose data to consumers for use in a UI, these are "experience APIs".…
Comment linking /dev/api-dev/what-is-api-led-connectivity/
on “So I reverse engineered two dating apps”Submitted Thanks for All the Silo Busting as a story · 3 points
HN discussionMulesoft have been moving away from RAML I believe, although it is still petty core to their product. https://blogs.mulesoft.com/dev/api-dev/open-api-raml-better-...
Comment linking /dev/api-dev/open-api-raml-better-together/
on “Salesforce is buying MuleSoft at enterprise value of $6.5B”Submitted Salesforce Is Opening Data Weave Transformation Lanaguage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThis is all second-hand and probably wrong, but I worked for MuleSoft shortly after McDonalds began to pull the plug on them after they experienced two regional outages. The outage was a matter of minutes, not hours, but payments weren’t affected. It only affected, as far as I know, kiosks - this was before they were everywhere. I can imagine this will cost a few heads at McDonalds who didn’t have a DRP or BCP which…
Comment linking /digital-transformation/business/mcdonalds-digital-innovation/
on “McDonald's Closes Amid Global IT Outage”Submitted How to improve API governance with distributed decision making as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhile experts are present (and since the notes on security in the readme are refreshing), I'd like to ask a general question about securing OAuth 2 tokens. My use case is to have a server that uses the explicit OAuth flow (redeeming a code obtained from the user in order to get permission to operate on the user’s behalf) but also have a front end client that uses the implicit flow (retrieving an access token for dir…
Comment linking /dev/connectivity-dev/google-oauth-security-confused-deputy/
on “Show HN: Fosite – OAuth2 framework for Go”Submitted Low Code Integration with Anypoint Flow Designer as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Code is Data, Data is Code (2013) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What’s a Citizen Integrator as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The blockers and catalysts of digital transformation as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Running Mule 4 on Raspberry Pi 3 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open API and RAML: Better Together as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Open API and RAML: Better Together as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted API Security: Keeping data private but accessible as a story · 1 points
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