apidays LIVE Paris 2021 - APIs and the Future of Software December 7, 8 & 9, 2021 Taming the beast - How to manage multiple API platforms at once Markus Mueller, CTO at Apiida

1. Taming the Beast
How to manage multiple API platforms at once
Markus Müller
19. Dezember 2021

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Markus Müller
Chief Technology Officer
@m_hoch_vier
markus.mueller@apiida.com
Who‘s speaking?

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APIIDA
THE EXPERTS FOR API AND INTEGRATION ENGINEERING
We Power the Digital Value Chain by
Connecting Systems, Identities and Data.
140+
Customers
+ other vendors

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The Future of Software
Number of APIs
increases
Different types
of APIs
Empowered
teams

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The Future of Software
Number of APIs
increases
Different types
of APIs
Empowered
teams
Multiple API Platforms

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The Future of Software
Multiple API Platforms
API Complexity

8. API Complexity

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Problem Dimensions
Developer Experience Governance &
Compliance
Operations

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Problem Dimensions
Feasibility

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Basic Setup
Developer
Application
Operations
API Platform
API Platform
API Platform
Developer Portal
API Gateway
Management

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The „I don‘t care“ Strategy
Strategy 1: Do nothing!
Developer
Application
Operations
API Platform
API Platform
API Platform

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The „Gone for Good (until it happens again)“ Strategy
Strategy 2: Replace with one platform
Developer
Application
Operations
API Platform

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The „The more the merrier“ Strategy
Strategy 3: Proxy through one platform
Developer
Application
API Platform
API Platform
API Platform
API Platform
Operations

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The „Divide and Conquer“ Strategy
Strategy 4: Multi-Vendor Management
Developer
Application
True API Management
API Runtime
API Runtime
API Runtime
Operations

16. What can you do
tomorrow?

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API as code
Proprietary
Policies API as code git Repository

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Single Source of Truth
Governance / IT-Sec
• All your repos  All your published APIs
• Search for patterns that represent your compliance
criteria
• See exactly who changed what and when
Developer Experience / Documentation
• Extract the specs of the repos and publish them at one
central location
Operations
• Build consistent CI/CD workflows to streamline
deployment processes
One single interface
to all your APIs!

19. Visit our booth and hang out with us!
The Beast has been
tamed!

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API Management Challenges
Multiple API
Platforms
IncreasedTotal Cost
of Ownership
Longer Time to
Market
Hard to Createa
CompleteAPI Inventory
No Unified
View on APIs
IncreasedNeed of
Training
Hard to Guarantee
IT-Sec & Compliance
Empowered
Teams
Multiple Types of
APIs
Support For Legacy
Systems
Conflicting
Requirements
Mergers &
Accquisitions
Increasing
API Complexity

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Evaluation
Developer Experience
Governance &
Compliance
Operations
 Only one portal to access
− Might need to re-enroll existing
applications
 Only one platform to govern
 Compliance is easier to check
within one platform
 Management tasks only have to
be done in one platform
 One possible cause of failure
Feasibility
− Missing an easy to implement way
of migration a big number of APIs
at once (intermediary language)

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