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You shouldn’t have to be a Swagger expert to get started with designing and building your new API. Creating an API from scratch can be a difficult task, so what if you could create API without writing a line of code?

Have you ever had that feeling you wanted to capture data and just send that data to just about anywhere? Google Forms gives you an easy way to create personalized surveys with the style that you want. So we got the first requirement down with that one, but what about sending the data elsewhere? That is where TIBCO Cloud Integration comes in.

Communication in our daily life is incredibly important, so why should that be any different when you’re building integration processes? Sending emails is still considered an important part of day to day operations. For example when errors occur in your integration flows, you might want to send an email. In this tutorial I’ll walk you through sending an email, and in my case I’ll use Gmail as provider.

Probably the most common version control system, used by developers today is git. Whether that is a self hosted server (like Gogs), a bare repo (git init) or with GitHub, most developers intuitively seem to choose for git as their version control system of choice. I try to store all my projects in local git repos and some of them make it to GitHub, while many of them don’t. When it comes to deployment of apps to TIBCO Cloud Integration, I do many updates per day so I wanted an easy way to not only store my latest source but deploy them right after.

As you’ve probably guessed by my previous two articles I love writing (about) Node.js. What isn’t great, however, is creating deployment artifacts every time you check something in to GitHub and want to deploy. To make that process a little easier there are many tools available, and of of those is Jenkins, the friendly butler. In this “How-to” I’ll walk you through using Jenkins with the tibcli utility to deploy Node.js apps to TIBCO Cloud Integration every time updates are pushed to GitHub.

I’ve just updated the Microsoft Visual Studio Code extension to help develop and deploy Node.js apps to TIBCO Cloud Integration. Apart from a whole bunch of restructuring, it now has the ability to create a new Node.js app (if you don’t want to start from an API spec) and it makes use of the .env files to work with process.env context.

With the introduction of Node.js in TIBCO Cloud Integration you have an amazing toolset to connect to almost anything and build APIs. In fact, there is a good chance that if you know Node.js that your first application was a simple application that said “Hello World” every time (your first API!). Let’s create a custom Express middleware that checks if the IP address of the sender matches a predefined list. In this tutorial we’ll use the list of TIBCO Mashery Traffic Managers as a ‘whitelist’ (so traffic from all other IP addresses will be blocked).

If you are like me, the data I need to do my job exists not only in the cloud. It can be hard to get to all data sources, especially when those are on-premises and behind a firewall. I am not alone, as pretty much everyone is facing these challenges. In fact, Gartner predicted that over sixty-five percent of all integration flows will be created outside of the control of IT departments as a result of the growing number of integration related tasks that they need to take care of. Simply put, organizations today are integrating to everything. The ‘everything’ in the last sentence not only includes Software-as-a-Service applications like Salesforce.com or NetSuite, but also includes applications and services hosted in private networks and datacenters.  

The world of integration is hybrid. Not only hybrid in the sense that you have on-premise and cloud-based applications, but also hybrid in the types of people that connect systems together or build something completely new. What really doesn’t change is the fact that people want to use the tools that fit their purpose.

There is quite a good chance that you know Node.js. According to Techworm, it is the number 7 programming language. If you’ve ever built a Node.js app, chances are pretty good that your first app said “Hello World” every time. In fact, that might even have been your first API!

Integration is red (it is my heart, after all), clouds are blue, interconnect everything and I’ll 💙  you!
With the theme of TIBCO NOW this year being “Digital Smarter”, I wanted to see if I could build the ultimate Valentine’s Day API using our own technology while considering the requirements that might impose on one’s choice of tech.

Valentine’s Day is traditionally the holiday where people receive cards from their significant others and secret admirers and is also a great day to have a first date. What to do on a first date? Catch a movie. According to research, one in ten people would ask someone out based on their movie preferences, so having the ability to connect to different film APIs could make or break that first date.