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We have a requirement for a project and we are planning to use the User management and authentication service of 'Oauth2'.
Our application will be on AWS so we also wanted to check with AWS Cognito.
Could anyone help us decide, which is the better option to go with?
I would proceed as follows:
Build apps in a standards based / portable manner, via certified open source libraries
Start with Cognito and see if it meets your requirements / identify it's limitations. Avoid vendor specific libraries unless there is a good reason.
If you need to switch vendors you will be able to do so quite easily, since your apps will not be locked into AWS
Out of interest I built all of the samples on my Quick Start Page using Cognito. It is a good place to start because it is stable and low cost.
As a rule of thumb, no vendor solution works perfectly - there will always be gaps between what you want and what they provide.
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We would like to gather data from vSphere, metrics like number of servers, their names, traffic information (this to be defined later). What would be the best place to start and what steps do we need to accomplish this? Any brainstorming suggestions, SDKs etc. would be greatly appreciated.
I would start by taking a look at the vSphere Web Services API service and, more specifically, the HostSystem (ESXi hosts), VirtualMachine (VM), and PerformanceManager (source of metrics) managed objects.
SDK-wise, it really depends on your language of choice. The vSphere Management SDK includes several different languages including Java and .NET. There's also the open source "*vmomi" SDKs, for which there is Python (pyvmomi), Go (govmomi), and Ruby (rbvmomi).
You can use VMware Orchestrator (vRO). Your vCenter license should cover this product. vRO uses the vCenter-SDK and also the vAPI. Big community and same vendor, so no (or very low) update issues.
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Are products like Wso2/Apigee and other "api management"/api proxy tools worth using (and do people actually use them) in the following two cases:
API calls that are exclusively called by the UI of web-app
API's consumed by small numbers of systems inside a company i.e. no external users
I know the general use case of these tools is for managing external developers access to API's designed to share data/functionality with the outside.
While some features of api management tools might be irrelevant in the case of UI-called API calls and internal API calls, i am wondering if there may be a value to using them to gather metrics on calls made from the UI or internal users/apps.
Wondering if anyone actually uses api management tools for these purposes.
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There many workflow system out there but I was wondering which one of the open source workflow management system is the closest to the AWS Flow Framework (with Amazon SWF like capability build in)?
AWS Flow Framework itself is open source under Apache 2.0 license. Its source code is available on github: https://github.com/aws/aws-swf-flow-library.
Update:
At 2017 Uber released Cadence which is an open source version of SWF service and associated client side libraries.
Amazon SWF is quite different from the other existing workflow systems :
It is not trying to implement BPMN (we could say it is lower level than most workflow systems)
It is focused on distributing tasks to heterogeneous systems (so you can run the activities on any platform, in any language.)
Besides the official Java Flow Framework, I only know :
Gordon (Ruby), but I'm not sure it's open-sourced yet
aws-swf-toolkit (Javascript/Node.js) (disclaimer: I'm the author of this one)
(Shameless post?) I started writing my own library (SimpleWorkflowFramework.NET) for use in C# and its available at https://github.com/sdebnath/SimpleWorkflowFramework.NET. It definitely could use some help if anyone is interested.
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I'm currently in the decision of under what license I should release a .NET client software that accesses our web service. The best way to describe my situation would be like Dropbox, as they have a client software that simply allows users to access their web service.
I'm not sure whether the best decision is to go open source on this to promote growth, support, etc or to keep the source closed with some to help reduce the number of non-official clients running specifically meant to misuse / abuse the webservice backend.
(If it helps any the client software will be computing and sending data to a backend, so tampering of the submitted data would be best kept at a minimum.)
Pros, cons, and suggestions are welcome
Isn't there a way to work with sessions in a webservice? If you could implement that, you could make the users of the client login first to your webservice (via the client application), and then only make the functionalities available after a successful login. That way, should you decide to release an open source version, you will greatly reduce the risk of rogue clients already.
As for the decision whether to go open source or not, that's entirely up to you, but I don't think the choice should affect security.
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I can't find much information around the web about it. Has anyone used both eConnect and the Dynamics web services to interact (read/write) with Great Plains. I am looking for the pros and cons of both approaches.
This product will be installed and configured on various sites, so ease of configuration is really important. I usually hate to mess with IIS.
Should be able to target GP 9 and 10.
Thank you
Use the Great Plains Connector - full info here http://help.boomi.com/display/BOD/Great+Plains+Connector?showChildren=false
and here for pro-cons/limitations etc.:
http://www.articlesbase.com/software-articles/great-plains-customization-how-to-integrate-legacy-application-with-dynamics-gp-452580.html
and of course from the horse's mouth:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms994230.aspx
We have done sites based off of web services for GP 9. Don't worry about IIS, there isn't much you have to worry about with that. The install process is very easy. It did not require me to do any configuration with IIS. Some of the configuration is a little tricky at first, like adding users, and setting up policies. But once you get the hang of it, its no problem. We use web services for almost everything now, they were so easy to develop with. I wish there were a few more, to update and access more information which I hope is coming but otherwise easy.
We have used it on ecommerce sites and windows applications. We did not choose econnect because of the ease of the web services, econnect I beleive has more options and we did use it to create and update sales invoices, but changed it to web services. If you have any specific questions please feel free to let me know. Thanks!