Equinix presentation at I Love APIs 2015

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Ramchandra Koty, Equinix
Senthil Balakrishnan, Equinix
Purvish Purohit, Equinix
TRANSFORMING YOUR BUSINESS THROUGH APIS

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Overview
• Platform Equinix Overview
• Equinix Software Capabilities
• API Evolution & Business Drivers
• Equinix API Reference Architecture & Taxonomy
• Equinix APIs Ecosystem Journey
• Developer Platform Overview

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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

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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

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Why APIs?
Source: fabernovel

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The evolution of APIs

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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

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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

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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.
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• 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
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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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DEMO

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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!!!
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