Tag: API

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: James Beswick. This post is written by Satish Mane, Solutions Architect. Many ISVs provide platforms as a service in a multi-tenant environment. You can achieve multi-tenancy by partitioning the platform based on customer identifiers such as customer ID or account ID. The architecture for multi-tenant environments is often composed of authentication, authorization, a service layer, queues, and databases. The primary focus of these architectures is to simplify the addition of more features. The multi-tenant design pattern has opened up new challenges and opportunities for software vendors thanks to microservice architectures gaining popularity. The challenge in ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Connect now provides an API to programmatically access real-time details about agents’ current activity, such as current status (e.g., “Available”). If an agent is handling a contact, details include the contact’s state (e.g., “Connected” or “Missed”) and duration. Using this API, businesses can build custom dashboards for contact center supervisors to monitor their agents’ activity in real-time. For example, if more agents are needed to handle contacts, you can use this new API to identify agents who are on break the longest and reach out to them to switch to “Available” or change it programmatically using ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS Cost Allocation Tags now offers APIs that you can use to activate and deactivate your Cost Allocation Tags. After you activate a Cost Allocation Tag, it will appear in your cost management products, such as AWS Cost Explorer and AWS Cost and Usage Report. You can use Cost Allocation Tags to filter, categorize, and track your AWS cost and usage information. Previously, you had to activate and deactivate Cost Allocation Tag on the Cost Allocation Tag page in the AWS Billing Console. With this launch, you can use the ListCostAllocationTags API to list all Tags and ... Read More

Feed: Planet PostgreSQL. While preparing for my talk to be given at PGCon 2022, I decided to share some important thoughts with the Postgres community. We’re going to change the way TOAST works, and it will have a positive impact on lives of many PostgreSQL contributors, developers and users in the upcoming years. It is also the rare case when I tackle commercial aspects of open source development, so it’s worth reading for everyone.Last year Nikita Glukhov and me were working on JSONB performance improvements. As many of you know, we have found a number of possible optimizations enabling JSONB ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. Amazon Connect now provides a TransferContact API to programmatically transfer tasks to another flow, to an agent queue, or to a shared queue for distribution to an available agent. Amazon Connect Tasks empowers contact center managers to prioritize, assign, track, and automate customer service tasks across the disparate applications used by agents. Using this API, contact center managers can now directly transfer tasks from their custom analytics dashboards for time resolution. You can already dynamically prioritize and assign tasks using Connect Flows based on agent skill set, availability, and information about the task (e.g., type, priority/urgency, category). To ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We’re excited to move Enhanced refresh with the Power BI REST API (formerly asynchronous refresh) from public preview to general availability in Power BI Premium, Power BI Premium per User, and Power BI Embedded. As noted in the public preview announcement, this feature not only eliminates the need for synchronous client connections to perform a refresh, but also unlocks enterprise-grade refresh capabilities. It’s a significant improvement over the standard refresh REST API in Power BI. By using the enhanced refresh REST API, you can leverage built in features for ... Read More

Feed: Recent Announcements. AWS AppSync is a fully managed service that makes it easy to create and manage GraphQL and Real-time APIs, allowing developers to securely access, manipulate, and combine data from one or more data sources via a single API endpoint. With GraphQL, special functions called Resolvers are used to implement business logic linking or “resolving” types, fields, or operations defined in the GraphQL schema with the data in data sources such as Amazon DynamoDB, AWS Lambda, HTTP APIs, and more. Resolvers in AppSync support flexible integrated utilities that allow developers to automatically generate identifiers ($util.autoId and $util.autoUlid), parse ... Read More

Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Eric Johnson. This post written by Giedrius Praspaliauskas, Senior Solutions Architect, Serverless. Modern architectures meet recovery objectives (recovery time objective, RTO, and recovery point objective, RPO) by being resilient to routine and unexpected infrastructure disruptions. Depending on the recovery objectives and regulatory requirements, developers must choose the disaster recovery strategy. For more on disaster recovery strategies, see this whitepaper. AWS’ global infrastructure enables customers to support applications with near zero RTO requirements. Customers can run workloads in multiple Regions, in a multi-site active/active manner, and serve traffic from all Regions. To do so, developers often must ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. This post will explore the use of lightweight application inversion proxy as a solution for multi-point hybrid or multi-cloud, API-level connectivity for cases where AWS Direct Connect or VPN may not be practical. Then, we will present a sample solution and explain how it addresses typical challenges involved in this space. Defining the issue Large ISV providers and integration vendors often need to have API-level integration between a central cloud-based system and a number of on-premises APIs. Use cases can range from refactoring/modernization initiatives to interfacing with legacy on-premises applications, which have no direct migration path ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Power BI Blog | Microsoft Power BI. Author: . We are happy to announce that the ExecuteQueries REST API is now GA. By using this REST API, you can query datasets in Power BI from practically any modern environment on any platform, as long as you can authenticate with Azure Active Directory (AAD) and construct a Web request. The query functionality is comparable to XMLA read access, yet avoids dependencies on Analysis Services client libraries, requires no connection to XMLA endpoints, and works in Premium workspaces as well as in ordinary workspaces. Just make sure your workspace is ... Read More