Nearly half-way through the first month of lockdown and there's the sense of an adjustment sinking in. Supermarket shelves are still a tad sparse but don't have the empty apocalypse-movie feel of past weeks. And despite lockdown being extended there's talk of peaks in infection being reached and noise about confirming a relaxing of isolation rules and a return to normalcy. A lot's been written about the pandemic and its mismanagement . There's dire forecasts about the economy and predictions the virus will act as a driver for tech adoption . The shadow that Covid casts is as much financial as it is health-related. The virus strikes at 2 things most of us consider fundamental to wellbeing  - financial security and social connectedness. IT and IT services has a certain worldwide industry mono-culture. But often, particularly for the global implementations, your team-mates can come from all over the world and I've been lucky to work with people from many d...

On a recent assignment I had the opportunity to work on a Mulesoft-SFMC integration. Mulesoft, recently bought by SF, is one of the leading enterprise ETL PaaS providers and readily integrates with third party platforms using industry standard RESTful/SOAP API endpoints. Mule Anypoint Generally I was impressed with the Mule suite of features and components. The Mule Anypoint platform provides quick, efficient integration capabilities along with out-of-the-box patterns and functionality for streamlining data flows from source to target systems. These patterns allow rules to be implemented that can schedule, consolidate and error-handle large batches of data in near-realtime if necessary. On top of that Mule has a suite of connectors allowing low-code out-of-the-box integration with third-party platforms like SFMC. Connector API limitations Like Marketing Cloud Connect the Mule SFMC Connector uses the SFMC SOAP API. The SOAP API is a good fit for most requirements involvin...