Thanks to the cloud computing, the ever-growing number of cloud-based services and products and changes in pricing models (subscription-based and pay-per-use models), it became considerably easier to buy software, which meant it’s growing accessibility. This is sometimes called democratization of IT: Software applications are considerably easier and quicker to access than before.
elastic.io is introducing the second version of its platform standardizing the integration of various IT applications. The new approach allows to integrate self-developed connectors into a superordinate platform and thus, connect any number of cloud-based as well as on-premise IT applications in a standardized environment and easily monitor all processes. The empowering democratization of business applications How many applications a …
This blog post describes the best way to host private Docker Registry instance on Amazon EC2 and Amazon S3. You can skip the lyrics and go to the ‘Resources’ section to get the ECS Task Definition JSON. When working with microservices nowadays, you can hardly avoid using Docker. After building your first Docker container, your next step would be to …
This article will describe several alternatives for gathering Docker containers logs in the distributed environment of Apache Marathon / Mesos cluster, like Syslog, Container linking, Docker REST API, embedded logging piping stdout/stderr and Mesos APIs for that. We’ll go through a problem statement, different alternatives and describe the challenges related to each of them. tl;dr: Docker REST API combined with …
The WHINT Webhook JSON Connector is a solution of Whitepaper InterfaceDesign that enables you to push data via an ABAP structure to a Webhook using JSON. In this blog article we’ll show you how you can integrate any SAP ABAP system with MailChimp through elastic.io in order to add subscribers from your SAP CRM system to your MailChimp E-Mail distribution …
In the last blog post, I promised an interview with Christoph Batik from Keynet, our partner and an eCommerce agency offering all-round services for online shops on the basis of Shopware and Commercetools. I wanted to find out how much difference it really makes – using an iPaaS for an eCommerce agency’s integration issues. Keynet plans, designs and builds various …
Integration Platform as-a-Service, or iPaaS, has undoubtedly become one of the big buzzwords within the today’s IT industry. The current IT market is exploding with dozens if not hundreds cloud-based software solutions. And while many companies readily jumped on this cloud train believing that using cloud application would streamline many business processes and, therefore, optimize their business, they had to …
This blog article is available in English and German. To read the German version, just click on the language switcher above. As an iPaaS (integration platform as a service) with different and also scalable price plans, we needed a solution to be able to manage Stripe recurring payments efficiently and easily. Back then, we chose Stripe as a means to …
Last Friday, at the end of the day, I heard from some girl that the Channel Trends+Visions fair-trade organized by ALSO, wholesale distributor of information and communication technology as well as consumer electronics, is her favourite one. And now I can easily see why. Starting with the location, the fair-trade is run in a former machine room for furnace blowers …
Last week some of you noticed that the integration solution you’re using didn’t synchronize data as timely as it used to do, or sometimes even didn’t synchronize at all. Some other sporadic issues have been reported as well, e.g. some integration solutions couldn’t be even activated. As you might have seen, we’ve announced about that on Twitter, saying that GitHub …