4-6 November 2025 in Poznan, Poland
Directions EMEA 2025
Join us for Directions EMEA 2025 - experience the latest updates from Microsoft and the ecosystem while connecting with the entire Business Central community, including resellers, add-on providers, Microsoft, CSPs, MVPs, developers, consultants, sales and marketing professionals, and business leaders. Fuel your motivation, inspiration, and success through sharing and collaboration.
How to NOT depend on 3rd parties when consuming APIs (and make your life easier when producing)
Consuming 3rd party APIs has become a standard task for a lot of BC developers and organizations. However, this typically means a dependency on a 3rd party who need to make test systems available, maintain the data or even provide a setup for CI/CD. In this session, you will see how you can get rid of that dependency through a (free and open source) tool called WireMock to make your dev and test workflows a lot easier.
We will also look into the opposite scenario: If you have additional client applications (a mobile app, a web frontend, a Power App ...) consuming your BC APIs, it also makes live easier to not depend on an actual BC instance.
After this session, you will have a good overview of the tool, but also have seen in-depth demos about it's usage for both scenarios.
Speakers:
Tobias Fenster
Managing Director at 4PS Germany, Chief Engineer at Hilti, Microsoft RD & dual Microsoft MVP, Docker Captain
Tobias Fenster started as a developer in the 1990s. Holding different positions including Head of Technical Consulting, Head of Development and CTO for multiple Microsoft partners during his career, he is now a Managing Director at 4PS Germany and Chief Engineer at Hilti. He is also a Microsoft Regional Director, holds dual Microsoft MVP awards for Business Applications and Azure and is a Docker Captain.
He is blogging on tobiasfenster.io, where he writes about Business Applications, Docker and Windows Containers, but also tooling like Azure DevOps, Visual Studio Code and infrastructure automation. His other focus is Azure, mainly around container environments and SQL.
Tobias Fenster
Managing Director at 4PS Germany, Chief Engineer at Hilti, Microsoft RD & dual Microsoft MVP, Docker Captain
Tobias Fenster started as a developer in the 1990s. Holding different positions including Head of Technical Consulting, Head of Development and CTO for multiple Microsoft partners during his career, he is now a Managing Director at 4PS Germany and Chief Engineer at Hilti. He is also a Microsoft Regional Director, holds dual Microsoft MVP awards for Business Applications and Azure and is a Docker Captain.
He is blogging on tobiasfenster.io, where he writes about Business Applications, Docker and Windows Containers, but also tooling like Azure DevOps, Visual Studio Code and infrastructure automation. His other focus is Azure, mainly around container environments and SQL.