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OpenTelemetry based Distributed Tracing for WSO2 API Manager

Tracing is one of the three pillars of observability. Tracing an API call in WSO2 API Manager is important to observe, identify possible bottlenecks in an API invocation path, and debug them. WSO2 API Manager facilitates tracing API invocation paths and publishing the traces based on the OpenTelemetry standard, using multiple tracers, namely: OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Jaeger, Zipkin, Log & Custom Tracer. This demo outlines important concepts of OpenTelemetry based distributed tracing in WSO2 API Manager, followed by a demonstration of publishing traces using the OTLP Tracer to Elastic APM, when invoking a sample API.

API policies export and import support for WSO2 API Manager

WSO2 APICTL allows users to perform API related tasks without any UI navigations. As an improvement, now WSO2 APICTL allows users to do common API Policy and Rate Limiting Policy related operations without any UI accesses and accelerates the CI/CD tasks related to the Policy Management. From this feature, it now allows to list, export, import and delete operations on both the common API Policies and Rate Limiting policies in multiple ways in accordance with the commands & their flags introduced.

OpenTelemetry based Distributed Tracing for WSO2 Micro Integrator

Tracing is one of the three pillars of observability. Tracing artifacts of WSO2 Micro Integrator is important to observe, identify possible bottlenecks in a message flow, and debug them. WSO2 Micro Integrator facilitates tracing message flows and publishing the traces based on the OpenTelemetry standard, using multiple tracers, namely: OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), Jaeger, Zipkin, Log & Custom Tracer. This screencast outlines important concepts of OpenTelemetry based distributed tracing in WSO2 Micro Integrator, followed by a demonstration of publishing traces using the OTLP Tracer to New Relic APM, when invoking a simple API.

Iccrea Cooperative Banking Group: 13 Banking Applications in 1 Year with Low-Code

Iccrea Cooperative Banking Group, the fourth largest Italian Banking Institution, has adopted the Appian Low-code Automation Platform to streamline their business processes, from Fraud Management to New Product Oversight and Governance to Anti-Money Laundering. The IT and Business departments collaborated with agile methodologies, delivering 13 applications in one year. Watch their story to see how they reduced fraud management processing time by 75% and how they are now able to deliver new products faster to their affiliated banks in Italy.

Why Data Leaders Need to End-to-End Business Understanding

The days of data leaders working in siloes is over. In this clip, Dora Boussias of Stryker explains why, for the modern data strategist, success is found in not only knowing the “bits and bytes” of a company’s data, but by having a holistic understanding of the company’s goals, and knowing how data will help achieve them.