How to Manage APIs in your Enterprise for Maximum Reusability and Governance
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This document discusses API management and governance in an enterprise. It covers the challenges of APIs existing in silos across an organization, and addresses how an API manager and governance registry can help manage the API lifecycle from planning to sharing. It also demonstrates how the WSO2 API management platform can be used to publish, protect, analyze usage of APIs across different environments.
How to Manage APIs in your Enterprise for Maximum Reusability and Governance
- 1. API Management & Governance in an Enterprise 30 March 2015 Principal Architect – Aditi + STC (a Harman company) 13 years of experience. Architecting Enterprise solutions across retail, healthcare, finance, e-commerce. -Leveraging open source stack - Middleware, NoSQL over AWS -Speaker @ WSo2 conferences, contribute to Java.net projects
- 2. Agenda 2 • ABOUT ADITI_STC • APIs/SERVICES IN AN ENTERPRISE • CHALLENGES FACED BY MANY • GOVERNANCE ASPECTS ACROSS LIFECYCLE • API MANAGER - what does it address • GOVERNANCE REGISTRY – what does it address • DEMO
- 3. STC + ADITI Overview 3
- 4. We Provide Innovative Software Solutions 4 CLOUDDESIGN MOBILITY ANALYTICS Member of Open Handset Alliance Android Device Certification Partner Only Services Company in the OAA Best IoT partner Windows Azure Partner of the Year
- 5. SYMPHONY TELECA IS YOUR GLOBAL INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT PARTNER REPRESENTATIVE CLIENT LIST Over 600 clients globally $400M+ in revenue 7,500 employees in 40 offices Delivery centers in Argentina, China, India, Poland, Russia, US AWARDS GROWING AT 25% YOY ü ü ü ü … at a Global scale 5
- 6. APIs in an Enterprise 6
- 7. APIs – Integral part of Enterprise 7 They are everywhere… • Shared/Utility services • Mediation/ Broker services • Identity services • Data services • Business as a Service • Mobile strategy • … and many more Within Application Across applications (within enterprise) Outside Enterprise (across partners) Maturity Complexity
- 8. APIs – Silos & Un Managed? 8 Silos? Un Managed? • Each LOB re-inventing the wheel? • Cost savings? • Time to market? • Maintenance overhead? • Catalog of services against functionality? • Dependencies & associations within services • Who are the consumers of my service? • Versioning? Sharing of assets?
- 10. APIs – Lifecycle & Governance aspects 10 Governance across stages… | Design Time & Run Time Governance Planning • Searchable -Catalog, De-duplication • Capture - Consumers & Providers • Capturing requirements • NFR (perf., security) • Policies & Metadata Build - Develop • Capture Lifecycle • Notifications on events • Capture dependency & • association • Re-use & Collaboration • Environment Mapping & deployment across Run • Analyze usage pattern Of APIs • SLA & Performance - Response times • Subscription statistics • Monitoring & Metering • Security Share • Communication & Collaboration • Artefacts repository • Forum & Feedback • Documentation • Versioning
- 12. API Manager – what challenges does it address? 12 A single platform to publish APIs, subscribe to them. Also handles security, documentation & collaboration. • Browse/Search for APIs • Subscribe to APIs • Forum, Feedback & Rating • Production & Sandbox • API Keys - OAuth • Create APIs • Publish APIs & Documentation • Manage Throttling, Versioning • Lifecycle – Prototype/ Publish • Contact Info. & Statistics Publisher Store • Gateway serves all API invocations • Takes care of throttling • Key Mgr. handles security Gateway & Key Mgr.
- 13. API Manager + BAM – runtime Governance 13 Platform to aggregate, analyze & report on API usage data. – Who uses my APIs? How & When? • Predefined OOTB reports • Ability to write custom Hive queries • Create custom visualizations using Toolbox. • Connect API Manager to BAM • Push Log data to BAM • JSON format • API to push data Collect data Inbuilt & custom queries • Use in Dev for debugging purposes • Single place to analyze logs • Prod to measure subscription, response time, usage pattern • End consumer personalization Dev & Prod usage
- 14. Governance Registry – what challenges does it address? 14 • A single platform across the Enterprise to manage the APIs, Services, Policies and other artefacts. • Foster trust, share & re-use, cost savings & accelerate time to market. • Create APIs, Services, WSDLs • Policies & Sequences • Share across multiple apps by mounting Governance registry • Registry extension – model types & their meta data • Create consumers, providers • Applications & Services • Contact Info. & Statistics Enterpris e Map (rxt & metadata) Artefacts (upload & share) • Lifecycle – Prototype/ Publish • Handlers for media types Lifecycle & Handlers Provider (External) Seq/URL Consumer (Department) Applicatio n(s) Service/ WSDL/ API
- 15. Governance Registry across Environments 15 Use keys instead of actual URLShared Governance Registry across Env. Different Mount points.
- 16. WSO2 API Management Platform 16
- 17. WSO2 API Manager 1.9.0 released !! 17 • External Key Manager support • Pluggable Version Strategy • Applications/Subscription sharing • Swagger 2.0 support • Improved API Analytics toolbox (separate download) • API Fraud Detection sample (separate download)
- 18. Q&A 18
- 19. 40 GLOBAL OFFICES 7500 EMPLOYEES 23 COUNTRIES Top 10 Mobile Companies Top 5 Outsourced Product Development Companies 2012 Partner of the year Windows Azure, Finalist Excellence Award Technology Agency of the Year 2015