APIs
What does API stands for?
API stands for Application Programming Interface.
What is an API?
An API is a piece of software that makes it possible for application programs to interact with each other and share data.
Why are APIs used?
The development of apps for mobile devices meant that organizations needed to allow users to access information through apps and not just through the Internet. Hence, the rise of APIs to allow applications to easily share information and interact with each other
Why are APIs important?
APIs, or application program interfaces, are vital tools for businesses in all industries. The importance of APIs from a technical standpoint, they allow the capabilities of one computer program to be used by another. They are a means by which two different programs are able to communicate.
How does API integration work?
An API integration is the connection between two or more applications, via their APIs, that lets those systems exchange data. API integrations power processes throughout many high-performing businesses that keep data in sync, enhance productivity, and drive revenue.
API 1st
What is API First (API 1st)?
API First (API 1st) is a philosophy in which the first order of business is to design then develop an API that puts the consumer’s interests first.
What does API First (API 1st) look like?
Within API First (API 1st): your API is the first user interface of your application, your API design comes first then the implementation, and your API is considered as being a product
What are the benefits of API First (API 1st)
API First (API 1st) provides as benefits: development teams can work in parallel, (in time) reduction the cost of integration & developing apps, increases the speed to market, ensures good DevOps experiences, and reduces the risk of failure.
API Gateway
What is an API Gateway?
API Gateway is the main part of API management. We all know how and what APIs are and what they are used for. These can be small chunks of services or a large set of service having many operations, with APIs we do computation or some logic required to satisfy the incoming request, but these services when used by external users called consumers we need to bring in some kind of system which can manage the requests and response for that consumer.
Why an API Gateway is used?
For example, a consumer is looking for some service in a JSON format and gives the details on a different like firstName as FName etc. For the same if we change the API itself it would go redundant for another consumer who needs it in different way. Also, the API provider would want to see the traffic make sure there is a regulation on the traffic that comes in, change for the requests that are made or see the trend of each call made or check on the TPS, Not only that, can have a way to display the services that are available to be consumed.API gateway is the answer to all these and in addition it gives a way to do authentication, security policy enforcement, traffic management policies, load balancing, dependency resolution, and cache management.
What is the difference between API Gateway and API Management?
While API Gateways and API management can be used interchangeably, strictly speaking an API gateway refers to the individual proxy server, while API management refers to the overall solution of managing APIs in production which includes a set of API gateways acting in a cluster, an administrative UI, and may even include additional items such as a developer portal for customers to sign up and generate new API keys.
API Gateway
What is API Management?
An API management platform is a tool that serves as a proxy for customer requests so that it can protect the backend of an online service or application from being overwhelmed from too many queries.
Why we need API Management?
API Management’s importance helps manage, secure, mediate, analyse, and grow an API program. APIs need to be secured from unauthorized access and threat. API Management enables mediating existing services and APIs to easy-to-use formats that developers know how to manipulate.
What does API Management do?
API Management tools help organizations to expose their back-end services in a more formalized and well managed way to the outer world so that developers can discover these services and build applications on top of them for the end-users. API management tools isolate management part from the real business logic implementation in the back-end services which helps in achieving transparency and loose coupling for the back-end services so that back-end services can be tweaked, optimized, upgraded and organized seamlessly while exposing interfaces as a proxy layer in API gateway level.API management help manage the process of creating and publishing web APIs, enforcing their usage policies, controlling access, nurturing the subscriber community, collecting and analysing usage statistics, and reporting on performance.
How does API Management work?
API management is the process of designing, publishing, documenting and analysing APIs in a secure environment. Through an API management solution, an organization can guarantee that both the public and internal APIs they create are consumable and secure.
What API Gateway deployment options are available?
Typically, deployment options for an API Management solution are public cloud, private cloud (on-premises) or hybrid. In a hybrid setup, you have a management plane running in the public cloud and a runtime plane running wherever you like.
Apigee
What is Apigee API Management?
Apigee, part of Google Cloud, helps leading companies design, secure, and scale application programming interfaces (APIs).
What is Apigee API Management used for?
Apigee is most commonly used to unlock new digital channels and business models by making valuable data and services available as APIs to your partners and developers. An API program fuels your ecosystem and generates new revenue sources.
How does Apigee API Management work?
Apigee is a platform for developing and managing APIs. By fronting services with a proxy layer, Apigee provides an abstraction or facade for your backend service APIs and provides security, rate limiting, quotas, analytics, and more.
What does Apigee API Management do?
Apigee supports the creation and configuration of a broad range of API packages, revenue models, reports, payment gateways, and developer portal integrations. These capabilities help API providers launch fast and gain value from their APIs sooner. Learn more about API monetization.
When should you use Apigee API Management?
Whenever you have a need to design APIs, publish APIs, secure APIs, monetize APIs, analyse APIs for example using a standardized platform to scale.
Azure API Management
What is Azure API Management?
Microsoft Azure API Management is a reliable, secure and scalable way to publish, consume and manage APIs running on the Microsoft Azure platform.
What is Azure API Management used for?
The Microsoft Azure API Management platform empowers developers to monitor the performance of APIs quickly and make simple tweaks early on. The software also adds an added level of security for businesses looking to protect valuable data.
How does Azure API Management work?
Microsoft Azure API Management is primarily used to provide a central interface to create, provision and manage API for web and cloud applications and services.
What does Azure API Management do?
With Microsoft Azure API Management, users can: monitor the health of APIs, identifying errors, configure throttling, rate limits and much more for each API.
When should you use Azure API Management?
Whenever you have a need to design APIs, publish APIs, secure APIs, monetize APIs, analyse APIs for example using a standardized platform to scale.
Gravitee API Management
What is Gravitee API Management?
Gravitee API Management is a flexible, lightweight and blazing-fast Open Source solution that helps your organization control who, when and how users access your APIs.
What is Gravitee API Management used for?
Gravitee API Management is used to effortlessly manage the lifecycle of your APIs. Download API Management to document, discover and publish your APIs.
How does Gravitee API Management work?
Gravitee API Management has been developed and designed to be fully extensible using its internal plugin system, so you can: define your own policy, develop your own reporting system, and so on.
What does Gravitee API Management do?
Gravitee API Management provides users with a highly flexible and scalable solution which would integrate seamlessly with their infrastructure and perfectly fit their business needs.
When should you use Gravitee API Management?
Whenever you have a need to design APIs, publish APIs, secure APIs, monetize APIs, analyse APIs for example using a standardized platform to scale. Also, whenever you favour open source solutions over closed source solutions.
SAP API Management
What is SAP API Management?
SAP API Management lets you publish, promote, and oversee APIs in a secure and scalable environment.
What is SAP API Management used for?
SAP API Management is used for managing API policies, create omni-channel experiences across devices, expose open APIs and much more.
How does SAP API Management work?
SAP API Management as a business technology helps you to share digital assets and enable developer communities to consume these assets in new channels, devices, and user interfaces.
What does SAP API Management do?
SAP API Management provides secure governance over APIs based on open standards like SOAP, REST, OData, with enterprise grade security. This simplifies the way developers go about integrating with their SAP and non-SAP application, reducing cost, foster innovation and participate in the larger API economy.
When should you use SAP API Management?
SAP API Management enables provisioning, governance, security and scalability of enterprise information for digital access. It provides for one experience for managing and monitoring APIs across various data platforms (SAP and non-SAP) with real-time analytics and reporting on usage metrics.
Streaming Data
What is streaming data?
Also known as event stream processing, streaming data is the continuous flow of data generated by various sources.
Why is streaming data used?
Streaming data enable companies to use real-time analytics to monitor their activities.
Why is streaming data important?
Streaming data can be processed through time-series data analytics techniques to report what is happening. Developments like the Internet of Things (IoT) and 5G connectivity fuel the boom in the variety and volume of data that can be streamed.
How does streaming data work?
The data from streaming data can be processed using stream processing techniques, and generally consists of small chunks of data. Streaming data allows pieces of data to be processed in real or near real-time.
Event streaming
What is event streaming?
Event streaming is the process of taking action on a series of data points that originate from a system that continuously creates data.
Why is event streaming used?
Event streaming enables companies to analyze data that pertains to an event and respond to that event in real time, from one step to the next.
Why is event streaming important?
Event streaming helps make your business smarter, faster and better able to detect and solve issues within your processes, regardless customer-facing or not.
How does event streaming work?
Event stream processing works by handling a data set by one data point at a time. Rather than view data as a whole set, event stream processing is about dealing with a flow of continuously created data.
Event streaming platform
What is an Event Streaming Platform?
Forrester defines an Event Streaming Platform (ESP) as an enterprise solution that connects to multiple, disparate live data sources (streaming data) to expose and/or deliver to subscribing applications, analyse to gain real-time insights, and/or recombine for continuous integration to downstream data repositories or applications.
Why do we need an Event Streaming Platform?
By using stream processing technology, data streams can be processed, stored, analysed, and acted upon as it’s generated in real-time.
What does an Event Streaming Platform do?
A simple way to think about what an Event Streaming Platform does is that event streaming enables companies to analyse data that pertains to an event and respond to that event in real time.
How does an Event Streaming Platform work?
An Event Streaming Platform is capable of continuously ingesting gigabytes of events per second from various sources. The data collected is available in milliseconds for intelligent applications that can react to events as they happen.
Confluent
What is Confluent?
The Confluent Platform is a full-scale data streaming platform that enables you to easily access, store, and manage data as continuous, real-time streams.
What is Confluent used for?
The Confluent Platform is a stream data platform that enables you to organize and manage the massive amounts of data that arrive every second at the doorstep of a wide array of modern organizations in various industries, from retail, logistics, manufacturing, and financial services, to online social networking.
How does Confluent work?
Built by the original creators of Apache Kafka®, Confluent expands the benefits of Kafka with enterprise-grade features while removing the burden of Kafka management or monitoring. Today, over 80% of the Fortune 100 are powered by data streaming technology – and the majority of those leverage Confluent.
When to use Confluent?
Today, Confluent Platform is used for a wide array of use cases across numerous industries, from financial services, omnichannel retail, and autonomous cars, to fraud detection, microservices, and IoT.
What does Confluent doe?
The Confluent Platform is a streaming platform that enables you to organize and manage data from many different sources with one reliable, high performance system. A streaming platform provides not only the system to transport data, but all of the tools needed to connect data sources, applications, and data sinks to the platform.
Microsoft Azure Event Grid
What is Azure Event Grid?
Microsoft Azure Event Grid is a fully-managed event routing service and the first of its kind. Microsoft Azure Event Grid greatly simplifies the development of event-based applications and simplifies the creation of serverless workflows.
How does Azure Event Grid work?
Microsoft Azure Event Grid allows you to easily build applications with event-based architectures. Microsoft Azure Event Grid has built-in support for events coming from Azure services, like storage blobs and resource groups. Event Grid also has support for your own events, using custom topics.
How does Azure Event Grid work?
Microsoft Azure Event Grid is an innovative offering that makes an event a first-class object in Azure.
When to use Azure Event Grid?
Microsoft Azure Event Grid allows you to easily build applications with event-based architectures.
SAP Event Mesh
What is SAP Event Mesh?
SAP Event Mesh is a cloud-based messaging and event-enabling capability for decoupling application logic and developing microservices.
How does SAP Event Mesh work?
SAP Event Mesh is a cloud-based messaging and event-enabling capability for decoupling application logic and developing microservices.
How does SAP Event Mesh work?
SAP Event Mesh is a cloud-based messaging and event-enabling capability for decoupling application logic and developing microservices.
When to use SAP Event Mesh?
SAP Event Mesh connects applications, services, and systems so they can react with each other through messages and events.
What does SAP Event Mesh do?
SAP Event Mesh connects applications, services, and systems so they can react with each other through messages and events.