Pre-Con Ed: CA Live API Creator: How to Create, Deploy, Secure and Scale an Enterprise API in 30 Minutes

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PreCon Ed: Create an API in 30
Minutes
Val Huber, Consulting Engineer, CA
D03X100LV
DEVOPS

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Abstract
Everyone talks about APIs and how they can transform a business. But where are these
APIs supposed to come from? The state of the art for API creation is still overwhelmingly
code-intensive, and therefore slow, expensive and error-prone. For many types of
enterprise systems, there is a (much) better way. In this session, you will learn:
§ How to create an enterprise-class API from scratch using CA Live API Creator in just a few minutes
§ How to combine pre-defined data sources, such as Oracle, SQL Server and Salesforce, with custom
databases and arbitrary data
§ How to shape your API and give it some logic and security
§ How to make your API available at enterprise scale
§ And, because nothing in this life is fixed: - How to update this API in no time flat
This is a practical session: everything will be cooked live before your eyes. No cheating!
At the end of the session, you'll be given an evaluation copy of CA Live API Creator so
that you can try it in your own business. If you still think creating an API is difficult, this
may be the session for you.
Val Huber
CA Technologies
Consulting Engineer

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Agenda
WHY APIS
WHAT’S THE PROBLEM
OUR APPROACH
WHERE ARE WE NOW
TO DO: ENTERPRISE-CLASS API FOR NORTHWIND
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3
4
5
SUMMARY6

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API Servers… Enabling the App Economy
With the Agility to Compete
Web
Mobile
Partners
Web
Hooks
DBs
API
Server
Omni Channel Business
Shippers,
Suppliers
1
Integration
3
2
Logic

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Logic
Integration
Data
API Servers – Way More Than Rest
Enterprise-class APIs… Not Toys
The real work lies
beneath the surface
Nested Documents
Pagination
Optimistic Locking
API

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API Servers… for the App Economy
Conventional Approach Provides… Stubs?!!
Web
Mobile
Partners
Web
Hooks
DBs
API
Server
Omni Channel Business
Shippers,
Suppliers
1
Integration
3
2
Logic
Raml, Swagger
Stubs
Restify Schema (?)
Your Code
Goes.. Where?

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API Server
Agility for the App Economy
Web
Mobile
Partners
Web
Hooks
DBs
API
Server
Omni Channel Business
Shippers,
Suppliers
1
Integration
3
2
Logic
Client Logic
§ Read/Write
§ Display
§ Mobile App Services
API Logic - Automated
§ Nested Document Model
§ Mapping and Transformation Logic
§ Pagination, Optimistic Locking
§ Generated Key Handling
§ Extensible – tags, JavaScript
§ Shared Server Logic Invocation
Reactive Logic
§ Multi-Table Derivations and Validations
§ Row/Column Security
§ Extensible – JavaScript, Libraries
§ Automatic Object Model
Integration Logic
§ Webhook Creation
§ Webhook Processing
§ SalesForce, SAP, …

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Where Are We Now
1. Start LAC 3/Start.bat
2. Start Chrome – click bookmark
Already installed (JDK, unzip) – to get started…

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Developers
Business
Users
Existing
Database
New
Database
Create /
Customize
API
Reactive
Logic &
Security
Custom
Client
Dev
Create DB
Server
DB
Coding
Parallelized
Development
Activities
Iterate
Bottom-Up
Top-Down
Code-First
Northwind
How
Three ways to start; stay parallel; iterate

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Lab Objectives
§ Create API from Existing Database (Northwind: no rules)
§ Verify Operational
§ Verify Documentation
§ Data Explorer – Data Maintenance App
§ Custom Resource – Nested Document Results
§ Reactive Logic, Security
Follow along with the Instructor

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Strategic Business
Advantage
Compete in the App Economy
Agility
A Challenge
API Services: Nested
Documents, Pagination…
Logic, Security: Major Effort
Live API Creator
Enterprise Agility
Point/Click APIs
Enterprise Class Services
Reactive Logic
JavaScript Extensibility
APIs – Required for the App Economy
Mobile, Partner Integration, Systems Integration, Heterogeneous Data Access

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Recommended Sessions
SESSION # TITLE DATE/TIME
DO3T20TV APIs and the App Economy 11/16/2016 at 02:00 pm
DO3T14T Domain Logic Requires Domain-Specific Code 11/17/2016 at 03:00 pm
DO3T15TV Myth: Low Code is a Toy 11/17/2016 at 03:45 pm
Innovation, Empowering Agility for the App Economy
http://www.ca.com/us/trials.html

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Questions?

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