Author Archives: hsramnai

Throttling – A Variation

Posted on August 23, 2011

In my last post I showed how simple request rate based throttling could be adapted to provide a more proactive approach to managing service consumption limits; applicable to a range of scenarios like capacity management, service metering and critical service … Continue reading →

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Request throttling – a proactive approach

Posted on August 4, 2011

I recently saw this great article by Mark O’Neill, CTO at Vordel about throttling. Take a look here http://www.soatothecloud.com/2011/07/how-to-configure-throttling-on-vordel.html. Mark assumes you have a degree of familiarity with either the Vordel Gateway or Oracle Enterprise Gateway, if you don’t then … Continue reading →

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Hello Joe

Posted on June 27, 2011

Hopefully you’ve been able to set up your new and shiny gateway and go through the simple hello world policy. In this post we are going to extend the HelloWorld policy to introduce some authentication and gateway attributes. So far … Continue reading →

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Hello World

Posted on June 7, 2011

I find it easier to get to grips with products when I use them, tool tips and “tip of the day” splash screens bug me, I actually prefer meaningful error messages when I mess things up. With that in mind … Continue reading →

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Starting at the beginning

Posted on June 1, 2011

When we are sure that we are on the right road there is no need to plan our journey too far ahead. No need to burden ourselves with doubts and fears as to the obstacles that may bar our progress. … Continue reading →

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Introduction

Posted on January 24, 2011

One question that I am often asked is “So what does a gateway do anyway?” Many think of it just as a piece of security infrastructure that “secures web services and XML traffic”, and yes it does that (too). Others … Continue reading →

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