On-Demand Recording:
https://www.nginx.com/resources/webinars/successfully-implement-your-api-strategy-with-nginx/
About the Webinar
Cloud-native applications are distributed and decentralized by design, composed of dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of APIs connecting services deployed across cloud, on-premises, and edge environments. Without an effective API strategy in place, API sprawl quickly gets out-of-control and becomes unmanageable as the number of APIs in production outpaces your ability to govern and secure them.
In this webinar we explore trends that are accelerating API sprawl and look at some well-established best practices for managing, governing, and securing APIs in distributed environments. Our presenters also demo how to use API Connectivity Manager, part of F5 NGINX Management Suite, to streamline and accelerate your API operations.
QUESTIONS TO ASK:
How many APIs does your organization have in production today?
Who is using your APIs (internal, partners, external)?
Why types or formats of APIs are they using (REST, XML, gRPC)?
APIs are now at the core of digital business, as organizations of all sizes have adopted APIs to improve connectivity and to build composable architectures. API requests comprise 83% of all internet traffic today – and API calls have been growing 300% faster than overall web traffic. According to estimates by F5’s Office of the CTO, the number of APIs in production will increase exponentially over the next few years. By 2030 there could anywhere from 500 million to more than a billion APIs in production.
API sprawl happens when APIs become widely distributed without a holistic strategy that includes governance and best practices.
Some contributing factors include the adoption of microservices, CI/CD practices, and as I noted earlier, the increasing complexity of hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
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QUESTIONS TO ASK:
How do you deploy APIs today? How many teams?
Are you deploying in the cloud, on-premises, at the edge, or with in a hybrid/distributed environment?
How do you manage documentation and versioning?
How do you integrate API deployment into their CI/CD pipelines?
Gartner predicts that by 2025, less than 50% of enterprise APIs will be managed as explosive growth surpasses the capabilities of traditional API management tools. A recent report from the F5 Office of the CTO underlined some of contributing factors and challenges of API sprawl, including:
Diminished reliability: As APIs change or become unmanaged, inconsistent documentation and versioning increases the likelihood of outages and service disruption
Reduce visibility: Lack of visibility into API traffic makes it difficult for platform teams to enforce policies and identify misconfigurations
Increased complexity: Distributed environments and the proliferation of services make it challenging to discover, manage, and monitor APIs
Elevate threats: Unmanaged and unsecured APIs are easy targets for attacks, increasing vulnerability to security and privacy incidents
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QUESTIONS:
How are you securing your APIs today?
Are you using a WAF?
Do you feel that security is compromising your performance?
Gartner predicted back in 2018 that APIs would become the most common attack vector on web applications this year.
A recent report from Salt Security suggests we reached that prediction — 95% of enterprise organizations reported an API security incident in 2021. Yet despite the risk, 76% of leaders were willing to sacrifice security for performance.
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Today I’d like to talk about how you can get more from your NGINX Plus investment than just an API gateway and WAF.
The NGINX Management Suite helps you realize the full value of your NGINX investment. With the API Connectivity module, you gain:
Unmatched scalability
Metrics
Global governance controls
Security tools
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Infrastructure Admins, interacting primarily with the management plane, manage the infrastructure for hosts.The main taks of infra admin are
API Owners /developers : API Owners oversee the API lifecycle, to automate the deployment using a CI/CD pipeline. The API owner rep
Configure policies to meet Quality of Service (QoS) commitments
Setup api team
Onboard api
Secure the API GW by adding TLS policy
Application Owner
Learn about API And test API using the features documentation.
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Download the demo video and guide at the NGINX Sales Hub:
https://f5.sharepoint.com/sites/salesandmktg/sales/NGINX