WSO2 API Platform: Vision and Roadmap

Last Updated: August. 2015

WSO2 API ManagementVision and Roadmap

Vice President, Platform Evangelism, WSO2Chris Haddad

Solutions Architect, WSO2Shiroshica Kulatilake

Agenda

o Key goals and challenges driving API platform adoption

o WSO2 API Platform capabilities and advantages

o Visionary platform use cases

o Innovative customer success stories

Applications Platform

Business Process, Rules & Workflows

Platform-as-a-Service

Identity Admin Services

Monitoring

Business APIs

Device Cloud

Realtime Events Processing

Devices OEMs Enterprises

Integration

Common Business Architecture

REST Easy with API 101

An API is a business capability delivered over the Internet to internal or external consumers

• Network accessible function

• Available using standard web protocols

• With well-defined interfaces

• Designed for access by third-parties

http://wso2.com/whitepapers/rest-easy-api-design-evolution-and-connection/



API Adoption Barriers

Inability to configure service per consumer

Limited Scale

Difficult to manage requirements and coordinate schedules

Difficult On-Ramp

Invisible business capabilities

Poor documentation

Lengthy access process

Delivery concerns

trust in stability, reliability, availability, performance

Security Risks

To Solve Adoption Barriers:Evolve beyond Naked APIs

A Managed API is:✓ Actively advertised and subscribe-able

✓ Exhibits high Quality of Service (QoS)

✓ Available with Service Level Agreements (SLAs)

✓ Secured, authenticated, authorized and protected

✓ Monitored and monetized with analytics

http://wso2.com/whitepapers/wso2-whitepaper-soa-and-api-convergence-strategy-and-tactics/



Why use an API Management Platform

o Easily build and deploy a managed API

o Rapidly re-factor legacy services as consumable RESTful APIs

o Increase API adoption

o Solve difficult Quality of Service, lifecycle, and governance challenges

o Demonstrate API business value

http://wso2.com/whitepapers/api-management-platform-technical-evaluation-framework/

What API Management Platform Offers

o Increase API adoptiono Enhance API visibility by offering developer portal

o Offer self-service access

o Engage the community

o Easily build and deploy a managed APIo Apply RESTful API design notations

o Assign service level tiers and access controls

o One button publication into production


o Rapidly re-factor legacy services as consumable RESTful APIso Mediation primitives

o Align developer experience with RESTful design


o Solve difficult Quality of Service, lifecycle, and governance challengeso Service level tiers, monitoring

o Approval workflow

o API versioning and lifecycle states

o Demonstrate API business valueo Subscription, usage, performance, monetization

API PlatformEvaluation Vectors

oSolutions Architecture

oDesign and Implement

oSecure

oPublish and Engage

oMonitor and Manage

oAnalyze API Interactions


Solutions Architecture

Category Score

Intuitive Development Experience

DevOps Friendly

Delivers High Quality of Service and Performance

Easily Deployed in Your Run-time Environment

Pluggable, Extensible, and Themable

Platform APIs

Platform multi-tenancy support

Efficient Pricing and Excellent Support


Solution Topology

Enterprise SOA and API Integration Platform: API-centric View

Design and Implement

API Design and Implementation

Category Score

API Design

API Documentation

API Façade Development

API Mediation and Orchestration

Service Level Definition

API Test


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Safely and securely deliver mission critical APIs

SecureCategory Score

Access Control, Authentication, and Key ManagementGovernance and ComplianceAttack PreventionConfidentiality, integrity, and privacyIdentity and Credential ManagementInfrastructure Integration and Deployment Topology

Trust and Policy

User Management


Passing Auth Information to back-end services

o Using JSON Web Tokens (JWT) o Lightweight

o Can be signed

o Easy to parse and consume

o Standard

Foster API Team Collaboration

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Publish and Engage

Category Score

API Consumption

API Economy

API Publication

Community Management


Boost the API Economyo Fully customizable look and feel

o Multiple Storefronts for diverse communities

o Multiple publisher groups

o Flexible Service Level Tiers

o Flexible monetization engine

Monitor and Manage

Category Score

Configuration Management

Release Management

Patch Management

Policy Management

Service Level Management

High Availability and Reliability

Performance

Disaster Recovery

Monitoring and Alerts

Compliance Reporting and Governancehttp://wso2.com/whitepapers/api-management-platform-technical-evaluation-

framework/

Operate at the Speed of BusinessGovern the API

Govern the API

Category Score

DashboardLifecycle ManagementMeta-data ManagementPortfolio ManagementService Level ManagementUsage ManagementVersion Management


API Product Governance

o Manage Dependencies

o Track adoption o Usage and Subscription Tracking

o Manage Compatibilityo Backwards or Forwards

o Versioning

o Communicate Migration Strategieso Deprecation, Retirement

End to End Governance

o An API can pass through multiple states

o CREATED

o PUBLISHED

o DEPRECATED

o RETIRED

o BLOCKED

o Service Alignment

Compass and Gearing

You can’t manage what you can’t measure.

Analyze API Interactions

Category Score

API EconomyArchitectureComplianceDeveloper ExperienceMonitoring and ManagementPortfolio ManagementSecurityUsage


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Why Analytics and API Management are important together?

o Build confidence in the API model

o Understand your customer

o Not just the developer but also the end-user

o Help manage services and versions

o Understand when deprecated services can be retired

o Plan better

o Monitor the growth of aggregated API traffic

o Monitor the growth of specific apps

o Even if you’re not going to put analytics in place, make sure you capture all events right from beginning of project.

Service Re-use Dashboard

WSO2 API Management Roadmap

WSO2 API Management 1.9

• Sharing capabilities for Applications (subscriptions)

• Pluggable Versioning Pattern

• Support for OAuth 2.0 back-ends.

• Support for third party Identity Systems for Key

Management.


• Improved Developer Experience

• Data Model support for response (JSON Schema)

• API Explorer

• Web based test execution

• Enhanced Community Collaboration

• Notification Support


• Security and Scalability

• Security Access Control Tool

• Social Media Login

• Complex Throttling Rules

• DevOps Advantage

• Improved Import/Export capabilities

• DevOps Configuration Screens

• API Monitoring dashboard

• Provisioning Improvement

Future Gate

http://wso2.com/api-management/try-it/

http://wso2.com/cloud/api-cloud/

Access the WSO2 API Platform

WSO2 API Management Case Studies

Case Study: StubHub – Managing high volumes of data for viral businesses

StubHub needed an API centric architecture to become the

worldwide destination for an end-to-end experience for fans

ProductProduct

Challenge• StubHub was missing out on potential channel of new business

revenue with a looming competitive threat from industry peers and newcomers

• The solution demanded the development of an API economy strategy, and re-architecting a running business

• There was a need for a scalable system, which while handling high volumes of data, also has the ability to constantly evolve as an agile system

• It had to not only be a product, but a platform that can leverage broad third-party developers and businesses to thrive

Solution• A high performance and scalable API management solutions system

that can handle high volumes of traffic• A simple lifecycle model that can be customized and extended to align

with the company’s API strategies• WSO2’s integration suite not only exposes existing capabilities, but

helps to deploy new systems to maximize value, analyze, results, etc.

Case Study: Axiata-MIFE– A Platform for Telcos to expose Services

Axiata needed a horizontal platform to integrate with rapidly

evolving OTT providers

Products

Challenge• Create a collaborative web-centric layer to which plugging in partner

services is seamless and easily accepted• The solution had to be scalable, flexible in deployment, interoperable,

robust and most importantly low on cost• The ability to constantly evolve as an agile system was a must since

service consumers had to be provided with fast time to market and service providers had to be able to churn out the needed services and integrate these rapidly

• Reusable components had to be introduced which would take care of the main integration aspects

Solution• A Platform which provided API and Identity federation in an easily

pluggable and extendable manner• Created “Gateway” and “Hub” reusable components for integration

points• A deployment which is hybrid with a suite of products which are both

cloud and on-premise friendly• Linked to GSMA hub, Axiata hub and many Mobile Network Operators

as pure “Gateways”

Case Study: State of Arizona- PaaS based API centric solution

A Private PaaS solution to onboard all state agencies to a single platform.

Challenge• Build an API centric DevOps PaaS with on demand scaling of

middleware• Create APIs which could be used across different state departments

with different policy levels being applied when consumed through a state department application

• Provide federated identity with a Statewide unified security architecture enabling internal and external login with Policy based Authentication & Authorization

• A Statewide governance model spanning across design, development through production

Solution• A platform that facilitates onboarding of State Agencies, DevOps,

Citizen and Employee profiles• A solution based on Open architecture and modular design• Reusable app services and a platform to leverage analytics to improve

operations• Highly extensible, Scalable architecture capable of driving processes

Products

Case Study: Fidelity- An Enterprise Solution which spans multiple

environments

An API Management platform with artefacts catalogued and governed across multiple environments

Challenge• Need to support Artefacts (Services and API’s) through an elaborate

lifecycle process• Maintain a separate set of environments for Development, Testing and

Productions which had to be integrated with each of the products dealing with those artifacts

• Govern the lifecycle of Artefacts across all environments to thrive

Solution• An API Solution that provides a re-usable service catalogue that can

be utilized by developers• A Governance solution that governs artefacts across multiple

environments from development and testing through production using the extension points in the middleware products

• High Availability setup through Active/Active Deployments plus data center replication and cross site failover setup

Products

WSO2 API Management Effective Usage

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Flexible Deployment

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API-M - Distributed Deployment

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API-M - Multi Datacenter Deployment

Integrating within the Platform

Integrating outside the Platform

User Experience

• Design

- API console, Documentation, Import swagger definitions

• Testing

- Console, ReadyAPI integration

• Subscription

- Search, try it, community features

• Automation

- Import/export, Mulitple gateways, REST APIs

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