Transforming Your Business Through APIs
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This document discusses Equinix's API strategy and developer platform. It provides an overview of Equinix's software capabilities and how it is building an API ecosystem. The key aspects covered include Equinix's API reference architecture, taxonomy of APIs it offers, the evolution of APIs, and its API lifecycle process. It also describes Equinix's developer platform which aims to provide a single interface for developers to explore, subscribe to, and build applications using Equinix's APIs.
Transforming Your Business Through APIs
- 1. 1 Ramchandra Koty, Equinix Senthil Balakrishnan, Equinix Purvish Purohit, Equinix TRANSFORMING YOUR BUSINESS THROUGH APIS
- 2. Confidential – © 2015 Equinix Inc. Equinix.com 3 Overview • Platform Equinix Overview • Equinix Software Capabilities • API Evolution & Business Drivers • Equinix API Reference Architecture & Taxonomy • Equinix APIs Ecosystem Journey • Developer Platform Overview
- 3. Confidential – © 2015 Equinix Inc. Equinix.com 4 4 Platform Equinix Overview Experience as Global Market Maker 17+ years Data Center Operational Excellence Global Innovator & Thought Leader Interconnection / Peering exchanges Global Portals based on multiple patents Supporting Key Communities of Interest Network, cloud, content, financial services, and enterprise ecosystems
- 4. Confidential – © 2015 Equinix Inc. Equinix.com 5 Data Science Digital Marketing Mobile AppsWeb App Big Data & Analytics Cloud APIs Microservices Open Source Contribution & more… Product Ecosystem Continuous Delivery Ecosystem Technology Ecosystem Infrastructure Ecosystem Equinix Software Capabilities
- 5. Confidential – © 2015 Equinix Inc. Equinix.com 6 6 Why APIs? Source: fabernovel
- 6. Confidential – © 2015 Equinix Inc. Equinix.com 7 The evolution of APIs
- 7. Confidential – © 2015 Equinix Inc. Equinix.com 8 API First Architecture – Reference Blueprint Rationalized repository of data and business services. Traffic Management Analytics Security Mediation URI Conversion Key Management Authentication Encryption/Decryption Non-repudiation Business/Technical Data Mining Pattern Recognition Reporting Spike limit Throttling QoS Enforcement Data Validation Data Transformation Performance Management API Management Cluster - Fault Tolerance / Load Balancing / Geographically Redundant Replica Developer Portal Onboarding & Interaction Monitoring & Reporting Users Administration Apps Mobile Web Application API Endpoints Application Proxy API - HTTPS Application API – HTTP/HTTPS Business Processes Data Services Configuration Services Network Services Caching
- 8. Confidential – © 2015 Equinix Inc. Equinix.com 9 Equinix API Taxonomy Digital Content APIs o Collateral o Blogs & Forums o PR & News o Events & Articles Interconnection APIs o Cloud Exchange o Internet Exchange o Port Management Datacenter & Colocation APIs o Space Inventory Management o Power Management eCommerce APIs o Customer Management o Product & Pricing o Order Management o Asset Management o Billing & Invoicing o Incident Management o Notification Management Marketplace APIs o Buyer & Seller o Storefront Operational & Analytical APIs o Traffic Statistics o Power Usage Metrics o Matchmaker Administration & Security APIs o Authentication o Federation o User Management o Permission Management
- 9. Confidential – © 2015 Equinix Inc. Equinix.com 10 API – Lifecycle API Monitor API Manage API Subscribe API Publish API Create • Publish APIs to Customers, Partners & Internal users. • Supports publishing multiple Communication protocols including SOAP, REST and JSON and XML style services as APIs. • Manage API versions and deployment status by version/Revision at very granular level • Apply Security policies to APIs (authentication, authorization). • Associate API to Product and to Developer Apps • One-click deployment to API Gateway for immediate publishing. • Browse APPs that are assigned to the user. • Self-registration to developer community to subscribe to APPs. • Subscribe to APIs and manage subscriptions on per-app basis. • Subscriptions can be at different service tiers based on expected usage levels. • Role based access to API Store; manage public and private APIs. • Manage subscriptions at a per-developer level. 1 2 3 4 • Analytics dashboard with customizable metric points. • View metrics by user, API and more. • Custom Report, GeoMap & Traffic Composition views. • Monitor SLA compliance. • Improved dashboard for monitoring usage statistics • Manage API lifecycle and revision and version • Ability to revoke access tokens • Separate validity period configuration for Application Access Token • OAuth2 Authorization Code Grant Type Support • Provision to approve access tokens manually/auto-approve 5
- 10. Confidential – © 2015 Equinix Inc. Equinix.com 11 Equinix Cloud Exchange – API Journey A real-time platform for machine-to-machine communication for orchestrating complex provisioning, event management, rules execution & workflow management across enterprises, networks, managed service providers and cloud services at a global scale. API eco-system built on micro services based architecture Container based Micro services Highly scalable Vendor agnostic and cloud ready for multi- cloud deployment Consistency between SDLC environments Key Highlights Multi-Cloud compatible Containers Micro-Services packaged in Containers Resource Isolation leveraging Containers
- 11. Confidential – © 2015 Equinix Inc. Equinix.com 12 12 APIs Developer Experience SDKs Cloud Exchange APIs SDK Approach Swagger-CodeGen Swagger-CodeGen modular, quick to market open source solution to SDKs for APIs All it needs a swagger definition to generate SDK’s for various languages Java PHP Phython NodeJs Scala and more On the fly integration with build process or developer portal can generate automatically using Swagger-CodeGen tool given a swagger json Extendible easy to template and add more language
- 12. Confidential – © 2015 Equinix Inc. Equinix.com 13 Equinix - Maturity Model (Reference) In roadmap Completeness of Vision Not in roadmap Current State (Self Assessment) API Maturity Model – Vectors Strategy & Governance Architecture Development Process Developer Community
- 13. Confidential – © 2015 Equinix Inc. Equinix.com 14 Developer Platform Overview Single Pane of Glass to enable API Exploration, API Subscription & Collaboration for customer, partner & internal developers The Developer Platform • Enables Developers to quickly Explore, Subscribe & Connect to APIs • Provides Software Development Kits to help customers/partners build Apps • Provides Real Time API analytics • Provides Learning Community & Support …and do it all at a Global scale APIs LEARNING CENTER APPs COMMUNITY Developer
- 14. Confidential – © 2015 Equinix Inc. Equinix.com 15 Developer Experience Developer Registration API Catalog API Subscription Developer Community API Analytics Software Development Kits API Playground Workbench • App Management • App Team Management • Recommendations Developer Platform Capabilities • Registration process • Role & Entitlement based Resource access for APIs and Apps • User profile / PDS integration • Catalog Presentment • API Exploration • API Simulation • Guideline on API Specification Format • App Registration • Key and/or Client id/Secret Generation • API Product(Bundle) Selection • Forums & Blogs • Social Integration • Learning Center/Knowledge Base • News Board• API Analytics • API Status and notification • API Support Channel • CSP & NSP Software Connectors • Tools , SDKs & Sample apps • API Test harness • Sandbox Integration • Runtime environment for programmable units
- 15. Confidential – © 2015 Equinix Inc. Equinix.com 16 DEMO
- 16. Confidential – © 2015 Equinix Inc. Equinix.com 17 API and Developer Program – Key Learnings API is an API – Public, Private, Open, Internal or External API Governance – Systemic checks via Automation is valuable Operational Excellence – Think Support First It’s about DX – Developer Experience & Engagement Community is King – Collaborate more!!! #1 #2 #3 #4 #5
- 17. Confidential – © 2015 Equinix Inc. Equinix.com 18 https://blog.equinix.com/2015/07/equinix-developer-platform-powering-the-api-economy-2/ Blogs: Q & A