INTERFACE, by apidays 2021 - It’s APIs all the way down June 30, July 1 & 2, 2021 Keeping the link between legacy and new: from software factories to software re-factories Vince Padua, Executive Vice President - CTO at Axway

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Keeping the link between legacy
and new: ecosystem vs
wilderness
API Days 2021
Vince Padua
Chief Technology and Innovation Officer
Axway

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Wilderness:
noun
an uncultivated, uninhabited, and inhospitable region.
a neglected or abandoned area of a garden or town
a position of disfavor, especially in a political context

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Ecosystem:
noun
a biological community of interacting organisms and
their physical environment.
(in general use) a complex network or interconnected
system.

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Enterprise
Software is
Complex

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Congratulations!
You’ve reached
“Digital
Complexity”

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Support
Database
Acquired
ERP
Mfg.
Operations
“New”
(ecosystem)
“Legacy”
(wilderness)

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Support
Database
Acquired
ERP
Mfg.
Operations
“New”
(ecosystem)
“Legacy”
(wilderness)

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Support
Database
Acquired
ERP
Mfg.
Operations
“New”
(ecosystem)
“Legacy”
(wilderness)

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Bi-modal IT
Greenfield

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Bi-modal IT
Greenfield

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Example of every
enterprise API
taxonomy …

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API discovery? API traceability?

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It’s time for agents …

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Discovers APIs that have been
deployed in the dataplane.
• Published to asset catalog and
optionally to API Catalog
• In Mesh discovers microservices
Discovery Agent
Following information sent to
Control plane:
• OpenAPI Specification
• WSDL
• Services and ports deployed with the
Mesh
Filtering available to decide what
API and service to send
Receives subscription provisioning
events from Central
Role Security

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Sends traffic summary of discovered
APIs from dataplane to control
plane
Central provides:
• API Reports
• API Trends
• API Traffic Spans
• Application trends
Traceability Agent
What is sent to Control plane
• Usage metrics
• Transaction summary
• Transaction details
• HTTP status + URI
• HTTP Headers
Redaction options
• URI Path
• Query Params
• Headers
Role Security

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Manage your ecosystem with Amplify
Centralized control for your environments
Federated Data Planes
Amplify Management Plane
Discovery / Traceability / Policy
Dev Portal
Organizations
& Users
Subscriptions
CLI Identity & Access
Infrastructure
Ecosystems Policies
Unified Catalog Environments Analytics
Integration
Builder
Streams AWS API Gateway Azure API
Gateway
Service Mesh Code Repositories
API Gateway API Builder
Amplify Third Party
Other
Gateways
Layer7 API
Gateway
Agent / CLI / API / SDK

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Providers
Publish ready-to-use integrations
Consumers
Discover, reuse, adopt,
publish
Amplify Catalog
Productize and share the asset in the marketplace for centralized
discovery and collaboration
Automated

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Vince’s law:
Unfortunately, no one can tell you
what your API ecosystem (matrix) is.
You’ll have to discover and trace it for
yourself.

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