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Deciding between SnapLogic vs. DreamFactory for your iPaaS software? Compare SnapLogic alternatives like DreamFactory by pricing and features to find the best iPaaS software for you.
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DreamFactory includes a web-based administration console used for performing tasks such as managing APIs, administrators, and business logic. However many users prefer to instead automate administrative tasks through scripting. This is useful for several reasons. First, automation reduces the amount of work required to manage multiple DreamFactory environments. Second, it opens up the possibility of integrating DreamFactory features into third-party applications such as an API monetization SaaS. In this post we’ll demonstrate just how easy managing your DreamFactory instance using the system APIs can really be.
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Running a Scheduled Task for your API is a very common need for any business. Achieving such a feat is much easier with our tutorial for creating a CRON job for your API. Whether you are synchronizing data on a schedule or just simply do not want to call an endpoint manually anymore. So how is it done?
Synchronizing database data using an API is a topic that comes up repeatedly in conversations with DreamFactory users. The reasons for doing so are many, but perhaps the most commonplace is the need to fill in data gaps found in a new database. For instance, you might wish to periodically consult a customer database and synchronize relevant data with a marketing campaign database. So how might this be accomplished?
The DreamFactory development team leans heavily upon Git and GitHub for repository management. Whether it’s DreamFactory Genie, the DreamFactory website, the Getting Started with DreamFactory guide, or the platform itself, you can guarantee the code is managed within a repository. Apparently my own Git usage is such that it dominates my terminal command history, accounting for 32.689% of all commands executed (per the command zsh_stats )! Yet no matter how deep your Git expertise may be, eventually you’ll have to combine commands with shell syntax in order to achieve more complicated tasks. One such example is deleting all locally merged branches. In this tutorial you’ll learn how to do so by extending Git with a custom command.
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Apigee is great at managing your existing APIs – but how can you bring new technologies into your Apigee suite that lack an appropriate API?
As it happens, DreamFactory is perfectly suited to creating a REST API fast for whatever datasource you need, and it can now be plugged straight into Apigee. In this blog post I will be breaking down how to go from a datasource with no API to having a fully Swagger documented and secure API managed in Apigee in no time, courtesy of DreamFactory’s Apigee API Generator.
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These days, companies are overflowing in data and tolerating ancient API-integrations. Across all industries.
Buried in that data are trends that point to customer insights, inefficiencies and synergy opportunities that could provide a competitive edge to a company. Or, just help a company catch back up to its competitive peers.
But how to best harness this data? Not everyone is like the genius John Nash in the movie ‘A Beautiful Mind’ that can look at raw data and see the hidden, correlated magic. After all, John Nash was an 8 sigma event.
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The DreamFactory platform supports thousands of data sources, but did you know the platform’s very first offering was to integrate Salesforce data? This is perhaps not a surprise, given the enormously important role Salesforce plays within enterprises large and small. IT teams often need to migrate Salesforce data into and out of databases such as MySQL and SQL Server, not to mention create customized Salesforce dashboards. These sorts of tasks are easy to do using DreamFactory’s native Salesforce connector.
We’ve just published a new chapter within our Getting Started with DreamFactory guide titled “Integrate Salesforce Data Using DreamFactory”. In this chapter you’ll learn how to configure the Salesforce connector, retrieve accounts, retrieve a specific account, and update an account. We’ll be dramatically expanding this chapter in the coming weeks to include additional features, but wanted to make this initial set of examples available as early as possible!
After months of work, countless user conversations, and a great team effort we’re happy to announce the release of DreamFactory 3! This is undoubtedly the most exciting release in several years, addressing a great number of customer requests and addressing numerous important enhancements.
This release is ready to be cloned via GitHub. Docker users can spin up the 3.0 release made available via our Docker repository. You can also take the new release for a test drive via our new hosted service! Head on over to https://genie.dreamfactory.com to start your free 14-day trial.
So what can you expect to find in this release? Let’s break it down!
Our team regularly holds detailed technical discussions with some of the largest companies in the world. From these many discussions it’s become quite apparent that lying somewhere beneath the fancy logo and glitzy commercials you’ll find IT departments relying on tried-and-true technologies and protocols to get the job done.
One particularly prominent workhorse is SFTP. The Secure File Transfer Protocol is a secure version of FTP, and it transfers data over SSH. Because developers often desire to build features capable of securely transferring files to some server, DreamFactory offers an SFTP connector capable of generating a full-featured REST API for transferring and retrieving files and directories.
Learn more about this feature in our newly published section of the Getting Started with DreamFactory guide.
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