Asanka Abeysinghe discusses how APIs are the foundation for digital transformation. He explains that APIs allow for real-time personalized experiences across applications, platforms, and networks. A top-down approach to API design defines the user experience first and then identifies the necessary APIs and services. This modular approach to APIs allows for reuse, integration, and iterative development. When done right, APIs can act as the connective tissue across people, applications, platforms, and networks, fueling digital experiences and powering today's connected world.

1. API: The DNA of Digital Transformation
Asanka Abeysinghe
Vice President, Solutions Architecture
WSO2, Inc

2. Speaker bio
2
Vice President – Solutions Architecture, WSO2, Inc.
Architect & Technology Evangelist
Apache Committer
(local) Live next to the Livis Stadium
Gadget-holic
http://asanka.abeysinghe.org
@asankama

3. Digital experience

4. 4
“Digital
experience has
become a part
of our lives.”

10. Alexa, what is
the population
of California?
Alexa, reorder
kitchen towels.

11. It is your wife’s
birthday,
navigate to the
Westfield mall ?

12. Architecture

13. real-time
personalized
geo sensitive
predictive
CX

14. person digital-double

15. digital workspace
social
business
knowledge
UX

17. person
applications
platforms
network

18. web apps mobile apps two-side
platforms
multi-side
platforms
value
networks
socialnetworks
games
geo-apps
financialservices
citizenservices
healthcare
citizenservices
smartcity
connectedcar
smarthotel

19. Think less about fixed processes,
think more about dynamic
interactions. - Gartner

20. H-M M-M
H-H M-H

22. Roadmap

23. Picture Credit : http://calebmagnino.com/creative/the-journey/
Technical Non-Technical

24. • Build a platform
• Rich functional capabilities
• Seamlessly integrated
• API driven
• Top-down approach
• Podular
• Reuse
• Iterative
• People: engage/empower/entrust

27. APIAPI

28. APIAPI
API
API

30. Build a platform
Rich functional capabilities
Seamlessly integrated
API driven

32. Top-down approach

33. define the end-user experience
design the app
identify/design the APIs
identify/design the services

34. Developer portal

35. API and Service governance

36. Service vs. API
Service: the
implementation,
API:
representation/
interface of the
Service.
service
APIs

37. API Façade: services to APIs

38. Picture Credit : The Connected Company – Dave Gray

39. API Façade: services orchestration

40. API composition

41. Top-down approach
Podular
Reuse
Iterative
People
Picture Credit : http://opensim-creations.com/2011/05/03/cloud-city-podular-rooms

42. person
applications
platforms
network
APIAPIAPI

43. person
applications
platforms
network
APIAPI
social
consumer
provider
partners
API

44. person
applications
platforms
network
APIAPI
social
consumer
provider
partners
API
external/internal APIs
internal APIs
external APIs

46. technology
partner of your
digital journey.
http://wso2.com

47. Universal connectors, particularly APIs and
Apps, mean that many new markets, in fact
thousands of market niches, can be served
with rapidly created, low friction,
lightweight content and services, quickly
building mass market adoption.
- Dave Gray: The Connected Company

48. Thank You!