Similar to the posts I’ve written about creating Webhooks for AzureDevOps and Git, you can do the same for Jira. To get started, you need to navigate to System Settings and then down to Webhooks. The amount of information and events that you can extract from JIRA is quite significant. In the below screenshot, I … Read More
Retrieving Historical Data with the GIT API
We previously looked at retrieving data from GIT using a webhook to get real-time events, but if your primary goal is to only retrieve data from a particular point in time or in a batch fashion, doing so via their REST API might be more useful to you. The Setup Before starting, you are going … Read More
Creating WebHooks with GIT
Similar to Azure DevOps, you can set up a WebHook in GIT to collect data when changes are made to the system. Webhooks in GIT are not global and apply to each project you configure them on. Configuring Your Webhook To start, you create your HTTP “listener” URL and add that to GIT. It’s important … Read More
Connecting to Azure DevOps using the Wiql API
Sometimes you are going to want to retrieve work items from your Azure DevOps Organization, maybe to perform some complex functions that you can’t do inside of DevOps. Maybe it’s merging data between different projects, comparing who did what work across different organizations, etc, etc. Whatever the reason, you’re going to want to get that … Read More
Customizing Azure DevOps Works Items
When I look at delivery processes that don’t succeed, it’s not because they don’t follow Agile or that they are Waterfall or that Kanban doesn’t scale – it’s that they aren’t tracking the right items. I was doing a workshop a number of years ago before kicking off a big project on what kind of … Read More
Changing The Azure DevOps Service Connection Name with AZ DevOps
If you have created a number of Azure DevOps Service Connections, you might start to see a list like this (I’ve blanked out all the GUIDs) that becomes not only tricky to manage but difficult to read and understand what their end use is. For all of this, you should be using Powershell 7+. If … Read More
How to Best Leverage your Platform Investments
Many (many years ago, I was doing work with OCS (Office Communications Server) and writing code to connect and automate messages with it. That system was completely built on a TLS certificate security protocol from end-to-end, from client to server to API. No matter what you did, you could not escape it; you had to … Read More
Customizing your APIM Portal
I’m not going to go into all the customization functions of the APIM Portal. You can add customized pages along with pre-defined widgets into the portal (and change colours) to add your own flair to it. If you are the Administrator of the APIM installation, when you click on the Developer Portal it will always … Read More
Testing your APIs with the APIM Developer Portal
By far, one of the best features of the APIM Developer Portal is allowing your users to use your APIs through a self-service center that will drastically simplify support time. After you login, if you go to the APIs and select one of the APIs you will see all of your API methods and can … Read More
Configuring and Securing the APIM Developer Portal
In APIM, the goal is to provide your users with a set of APIs that abstract the complexities of retrieving data from your main APIs. Perhaps you have some security constraints you don’t want people to use and would rather embed them into your policies, or you want to control how often people can access … Read More