WeChat Login Web Integration

We have a Chinese customer who wants to implement WeChat login for the custom IDM User Portal which we have developed for them.

The implementation is pretty straight-forward as WeChat Login for Web Applications supports OAuth2 protocol. There is even a very good documentation written in English.

Now, the difficult part comes ... setting up of Developer Account. This is by no means easy as the check is very stringent.

To begin with, the registration page is in Chinese! And if you are a company, you need to submit company registration certificate, applicant's identification card, company bank account information etc.. And finally, if you are an overseas company, you need to pay USD 120 for verification fee.

And you are not guaranteed of having your application being approved.  :)

I'm praying hard. Just submitted and transferred USD120 to Tencent.


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Kong API Gateway CE 0.12.0 - Circuit Breaker feature

The latest Community Edition version is Kong CE 0.12.0, just released today.

Coincidentally, there is a new feature in Kong that is similar to the one released by CA API Gateway 9.3 - Circuit Breaker.

Support for health checks! Kong can now short-circuit some of your upstream Targets (replicas) from its load balancer when it encounters too many TCP or HTTP errors. 

You can configure the number of failures, or the HTTP status codes that should be considered invalid, and Kong will monitor the failures and successes of proxied requests to each upstream Target. We call this feature passive health checks. 

Additionally, you can configure active health checks, which will make Kong perform periodic HTTP test requests to actively monitor the health of your upstream services, and pre-emptively short-circuit them. 

Upstream Targets can be manually taken up or down via two new Admin API endpoints: /healthy and /unhealthy.

More technical with implementation details at GitHub - Add active and passive health checks.


Pretty cool!


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CA API Gateway - 9.3 (New Features and Enhancements)

CA just released API Gateway 9.3 - New Features and Enhancements are listed here. 

There is a new feature which I think is pretty cool - Apply Circuit Breaker assertion.

The Apply Circuit Breaker assertion defines thresholds for failure conditions which, when exceeded, prevent blocks of your policy from executing for a configurable period. 

This is ideal for avoiding bottlenecks that arise due to request processing slowdowns that are caused by sluggish or malfunctioning back-end systems. 

Once the Apply Circuit Breaker assertion detects a circuit has exceeded a threshold, the assertion fails and none of its child assertions execute. Depending on the surrounding policy logic, a failed Apply Circuit Breaker assertion could cause further branching or it could fail the entire policy.

After a predetermined timeout period, the circuit resets and the bypassed portion is once again live.

Going to try it soon! :)

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Access Management Users

Just received an email today ... I didn't know collecting user lists can be a business! Hmm...  :)

Hi,

Would you be interested in acquiring accounts of Access Management Users for your sales and marketing initiative? Below are some of the popular lists which we provide.

Atos (Evidian) Users

CA Technologies Users

Centrify Users

Covisint Users

ForgeRock Users

IBM Users

i-Sprint Innovations Users

Micro Focus Users

Microsoft Users

Okta Users

Our List includes – Company Name, Company URL, Contact Name, Job Title, Email Address, Physical Address, Phone Numbers, Fax Numbers, Revenue Size, Employee Size, SIC Code, Industry and Technology Using.

Kindly review and let me know your thought on this. If you would like to include any other segmented data base along with this please feel free to let me know on the same.

Have a great day ahead!

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