[API Word 2021] - Quantum Duality of “API as a Business and a Technology”
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The document discusses the duality of APIs as both business and technology, emphasizing the evolution of supply chains and API-centric architectures. It highlights the importance of federation for multi-party business models and new monetization strategies within a heterogeneous API landscape. Additionally, it explores the shift to cloud-native integration and the modernization of development practices in the context of APIs.
[API Word 2021] - Quantum Duality of “API as a Business and a Technology”
- 1. Hello! Asanka Abeysinghe Chief Technology Evangelist (former Deputy CTO) asankaa AT wso2.com
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- 3. Quantum Duality of “API as a business” and “API as a Technology” October 2021
- 4. Quantum Duality of “API as a business” and “API as a technology” 4 Overview Federation and Business Models Move to the cloud Polyglot and heterogeneous Modernizing development
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- 6. 6 Evolution of Products Source: https://www.productevolution.org/2018/02/on-the-origin-of-the-word-processor/
- 8. 8 Supply chain A supply chain is a network between a company and its suppliers to produce and distribute a specific product or service to the final buyer. This network includes different activities, people, entities, information, and resources. The supply chain also represents the steps it takes to get the product or service from its original state to the customer. Source: https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/supplychain.asp Image: https://www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov/
- 9. Consumption Sales Distribution 9 Evolution of Supply Chain Source: https://thenewstack.io/a-successful-api-strategy-needs-a-digital-supply-chain-and-a-thriving-ecosystem/ Manufacturing Sourcing Experience (by Customers) Registration (by Customers) Deployment (of Digital Solutions) Development (of Digital Solutions) Discovery (of Data & Services) Industry Supply Chain Digital Supply Chain
- 10. Software is eating the world. - Marc Andreesen, Co Founder Netscape, a16z -
- 11. Every company is a software company. - Satya Nadella, CEO Microsoft -
- 12. If your digital supply chain is better than your competitors', you'll be in a much stronger position to succeed. - Jeff Lowson, CEO Twilio -
- 15. 15 Evolution of APIs Pure Technical Semi Technical Managed APIs API Products Isolated Early Integration Message Oriented SOA Pre MSA/IoT MSA ● EDI ● File sharing ● Sockets ● Message queues ● Data to data ● Monolithic Apps ● OLE/OLE+ ● COM/COM+ ● CORBA ● RMI/EJB ● WebDev ● ESB ● SOAP ● BPEL ● BAM ● REST ● HTTP/s ● AMQP ● MQTT ● Servicemesh ● gRPC ● GraphQL ● Websockets/ hooks ● AsyncAPI
- 16. APIs Products of the 21st Century 16
- 17. Products of the 21st Century Directly Monetized Indirectly Monetized Combined physical/digital 17 Backbone for digital transformation and API Products
- 18. 18 Products exist in and rely on ecosystems Image: https://www.pinterest.com/pin/541417186425569576/ (Pandora)
- 19. 19 Marketplace Photo by Gabriella Clare Marino on Unsplash
- 20. Federation enables multi-party business models https://wso2.com/library/webinars/federated-apis-across-ecosystems/ 20 #1 e.g. Scania Internal federated marketplace #2 e.g. BNY Mellon Partner marketplace #3 e.g. Smart Dubai Closed group marketplace #4 e.g. ideabiz Shared revenue marketplace #5 e.g. Apigate Aggregator marketplace
- 21. 21 Emerging supply chains for APIs in finance Banks Banks Banks Payment Gateways Mobile Wallets New Cards Third Party Providers Fintechs
- 22. 22 Emerging Supply Chains for APIs in Telco Cell Provider Cell Provider Cell Provider
- 23. 23 Cell Provider Cell Provider Cell Provider Cell Provider Cell Provider
- 24. What can we learn from the physical ISC? Product Lifecycle Management API Product Management ERP & Financials API Insights and Monetization Supply Chain Management API Integration & Enablement Logistics API DevOps and Management 24
- 25. 25 The shift to Cloud Native Traditional Cloud Native Virtual Machines and vSphere Containers and Kubernetes Centralised CoE based Integration API-led decentralised integration APIs for Partners APIs everywhere API Gateway Edge Gateway and Microgateway Synchronous Request-Reply Event-Driven Async Heavyweight all-in-one systems Lightweight, decoupled, deploy anywhere Proprietary licenses Open source by default Pay upfront Pay as you go
- 26. 26 API Federation: Enabling multi-party business models ● Hosts a collection of APIs from different providers on a single federated marketplace. ● Unified analytics, policy enforcement, subscriptions, billing, etc. ● Open source specification for publication to a marketplace: https://github.com/api-federation/ Publisher Developer Portal Analytics Identity AWS Gateway Azure Gateway NGINX WSO2 Gateway
- 27. Quantum Duality of “API as a business” and “API as a technology” 27 Summary Federation and Business Models ● Heterogeneous API landscape - - Federation & multi-party ● Governance of API products across - multi-vendors ● New Monetization models ● API Product Management focus Move to the cloud ● Multi-Cloud & Hybrid deployment ● Kubernetes runtimes ● Automation ● Massive scale of API infrastructures ● Cloud business models Polyglot and heterogeneous ● Polyglot microservices and macro-services ● More than OAS: - GraphQL, AsyncAPI, gRPC, - Kafka, NATS, etc ● API aggregation and integration Modernizing development ● Microgateways & Service Mesh co-deployed with workloads ● CI/CD enablement ● Unified API development ● Serverless ● Kubernetes development environments
- 29. Let’s connect 29 https://blog.architect2architect.com https://wso2.com/strategic-consulting/ asankaa AT WSO2.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/asankaabeysinghe/ @asankama Image: https://www.crn.com/news/cloud/crn-exclusive-new-google-cloud-partner-advantage-program-launches-today