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Sometimes They Come Back...

Citing the title of a book from Stephen King that I read when a young boy, this post is just to let you know that I uploaded here a few posts I made some time ago on another blog that does not exists anymore. Cloud Computing using Microsoft Azure for Dummies February 17, 2016  Graph Databases November 24, 2015    Geographically Distributed Replica Set with MongoDB and Azure October 27, 2015  

Azure API Management Export Bug By Design

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I’ve been playing with Azure API Management for some time now, creating POC s and lately using it for work projects. It is a great tool, which allows you to centralize all your Microservices or API s, both public available or inside your On-Premise network . Among the many features it offers, there is an Import tool that allows you to create an API definition from a Swagger or WSDL file. And as you would expect from a great tool, there is also an Export tool that allows you to create a Swagger file from an existing API definition. All great except, when you export a definition from  API Management ,  you cannot re-use that definition into any API Management service anymore . In fact, by design (see the answer from Microsoft Azure Support below), the tool will change your definition, duplicating parameters, and when you import it again, your new API will throw an error when tested: “ Access denied due to i...