Innovation at scale - key drivers and pitfalls to building API driven agile business platforms
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The document outlines the importance of disaggregated architectures and API-driven business platforms for achieving scalability and agility in response to growing consumer demands. It emphasizes the need for a solid API strategy that aligns with business goals, highlighting the significant role of APIs in generating revenue and enabling better integration. Additionally, it discusses the challenges posed by traditional middleware and integration systems, advocating for self-contained and composable enterprise solutions to enhance efficiency and speed in development.
Innovation at scale - key drivers and pitfalls to building API driven agile business platforms
- 1. Innovation and Scale Drivers and pitfalls to building API driven business platforms Mifan Careem VP - Solutions Architecture, WSO2 mifan@wso2.com | @mifanc | https://www.linkedin.com/in/mifan/ All Things Open 2019 North Carolina
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- 3. Towards disaggregation Disaggregated architectures drive 50 billion endpoints, growing >1 trillion CONSUMER DEMAND Scale and agility are pushing app disaggregation... …that makes hybrid integration the unspoken challenge of all cloud services SUPPLIERS DISAGGREGATE ARCHITECTURE TO MEET DEMAND 1 10 102 103 105 109 MONOLITHIC BUSINESS APP ENTERPRISE APPS DEPARTME NTAL APPS SAAS APPS PUBLIC / PRIVATE APIS SERVERLESS & MICROSERVICES 1970s | MAINFRAME 1980s | IT AWAKENING 1990s | INTERNET 2000s | MOBILE 2010s | IoT/AI 2020+ | DIGITAL NATIVE 3
- 4. “APIs create business agility that fosters the rapid business reconfiguration necessary to continually adapt to an unknown future of constant change.” ~ Randy Heffner, Forrester Research ...And APIs Are The Glue All integration is becoming API driven hybrid integration
- 5. 5 The Global Impact of APIs APIs now account for 25% of the Internet’s traffic. $1 trillion is up for grabs through the redistribution of revenue through APIs (McKinsey 2017). 25% of revenue flows through APIs (Vanson Bourne 2018). Through 2020, integration work will account for 50% of the time and cost of building a digital platform (Gartner 2018).
- 7. Align Business Strategy with API Strategy Every company is a technology company Technology assets need to be built for use and reuse Reuse has a compound effect on technology investments APIs thus are an encapsulation of the organization’s intellectual property Streamline internal assets AND better customer reach via APIs
- 8. 2. Distributed Platforms vs Centers of Excellence vs Agility External Developers (Partners) Other BU Developers (Inter BU Access) Internal BU Developers (Intra BU Access) BU 1 API Marketplace BU 2 API Marketplace BU 3 API Marketplace BU n API Marketplace BU 1 API Management (Dedicated On-prem Deployment) BU 2 API Management (Private Cloud Tenant) BU 3 API Management (WSO2 API Cloud Tenant) BU n API Management (Other APIM Platform Tenant) Private Cloud Public Cloud Enterprise Enterprise API Marketplace BU 1 BU 2 BU 3 BU n
- 9. 9 Integration & Middleware Are Bottlenecks to Agility LAYERED MONOLITH Coordinated releases, organizational rigor, centralized change control Compute Network Storage Ops Infrastructure Ops Team Observability Scaling HA Resilience Observability Scaling HA Resilience Observability HA Resilience Middleware & Integration CoE Teams HA Resilience ObservabilityScaling INTEGRATION HA Resilience ObservabilityScaling MESSAGING HA Resilience ObservabilityScaling DATA HA Resilience ObservabilityScaling SECURITY App Logic . . . Centralized Dev Org App LogicApp Logic App 1 App 2 App (n) PEOPLE Center of Excellence teams add governance barriers to releases. PROCESS Middleware and integration systems create trickle-down “gates” decelerating releases. TECHNOLOGY Middleware is a dependency slowing app dev teams.
- 10. Self-contained Deployable as a unit Independently elastic Data plane and control plane Cells… The New Building Blocks For The Composable Enterprise
- 11. Becoming Integration Agile… App Logic . . . Scaling HA Resilience Observability Scaling HA Resilience Observability HA Resilience Observability Compute Network Storage Ops Infrastructure Centralized Dev Org Middleware & Integration CoE Teams Ops Team LAYERED MONOLITH Coordinated releases, organizational rigor, centralized change control HA Resilience ObservabilityScaling INTEGRATION HA Resilience ObservabilityScaling MESSAGING HA Resilience ObservabilityScaling DATA HA Resilience ObservabilityScaling SECURITY App LogicApp Logic App 1 App 2 App (n) APIs COMPOSABLE ENTERPRISE Autonomous releases, CI/CD, self-organization, change-control authority App (n) App Microservice INTEGRATION MESSAGING DATA SECURITY App 1 INTEGRATION MESSAGING DATA SECURITY Microservices App 2 App Miniservice INTEGRATION MESSAGING DATA SECURITY APIs Self- Organizing Dev Teams . . . Ops Team Event-Based Hybrid Integration Platform Scaling | HA | Resilience | Observability Orchestration & High-Performance Data Store Ops Infrastructure DevOps <Microgateway> <Microgateway> <Microgateway>
- 12. 3. API Marketplace as a Platform Business Model þ
- 13. 4. Sustainability via Feedback Loops, Incentives, Adoption 13 Source: David Sacks, Yammer on Uber’s business model valuation • Social Incentives • Fun, Fame, Fortune • No. of Shares, Likes, Claps, Re-Tweets, View • Leaderboards • Rating/Filtering • Monetization þ
- 14. 5. API Security is not an afterthought! ý
- 15. Implementing a Gateway Architecture 15 API Gateway Policy Enforcement & Security Lifecycle Mgt. Governance Analytics Threat Protection QoS and Rate Limiting • Gateway Patterns act as the (central) point of control for incoming and outgoing data • Enforce QoS and acts as a Policy Enforcement Point • Utilize an IAM to enable BYOID via federation • Follow industry standards such as Oauth2, OIDC, SAML • Be able to extend and customize as required using Oauth2 fraud detection, HMAC, Custom headers
- 16. Identity Federation at the Platform
- 18. Cloud Native ~ Zero Trust Network
- 19. “What was once a rich selection of blogs and websites has been compressed under the powerful weight of a few dominant platforms. This concentration of power creates a new set of gatekeepers, allowing a handful of platforms to control which ideas and opinions are seen and shared.” - Tim Berners-Lee https://webfoundation.org/2018/03/web- birthday-29/ https://beta.techcrunch.com/2018/03/12/ platform-power-is-crushing-the-web-warns- berners-lee/
- 20. 20 The right API driven business platform is key to innovate at scale Define API Strategy Define a Platform Strategy Facilitate Consumers Engage and Empower Producers Incentives and Monetizatio n Agility and Distributio n Platform security model Govern and Manage