In this presentation at CA World 2016, Matt defines microservices through goals, principles, characteristics and dependencies.
Category: API Strategy
APIDays London 2016: Service Landscaping with a Purpose
APIDays London 2016 focused on APIs in the Banking and Fintech industry. Managing the rapidly changing landscapes of IT services is a challenging task. Organizations are forced to manage the increasing decentralization and diversity of this landscape to allow service discovery, and to understand the status quo as well as the constant evolution of the service ecosystem. Balancing…
APIDays London 2016: Balancing Speed and Safety
APIDays London 2016 focused on the impact of APIs in the Banking and Fintech industries. Speeding up IT and business development without sacrificing stability and safety is one of the major challenges faced by many organizations today. The challenge increases with the size of the organization, the requirements for safety, and the rate of change of the environment….
Using APIs to Unlock Business Value
In the second of a three-part webcast series co-hosted by CA API Management, IDG and the API Academy, CA Distinguished Engineer Scott Morrison discusses why APIs are so critical to creating new value streams in your business. See part one and part three here.
The View from #API360
It was my great pleasure to join our inaugural #api360 event in Washington, DC, Sept 12. The Newseum was an ideal venue, offering a stunning cityscape view including the Capitol building and, of course, the Canadian Embassy. The day kicked off with Gray Brooks of 18F giving an insider’s view of the widespread API activities taking place in the US Federal…
DFTW – Decoupled for the Win
Decouple your service and avoid fatal dependencies It doesn’t matter if your service is “micro” or “oriented”, if it’s tightly coupled – especially if your service is on the Web – you’re going to be stuck nursing your service (and all it’s consumer apps) through lots of pain every time each little change happens (e.g. addresses, operations, arguments, process-flow). And that’s just needless pain. Needless for you and for anyone attempting…
REST Fest 2016 Keynote: Deconstructing the Web
One of REST’s constraints is that of a uniform interface. The main idea of the uniform interface is that it allows components to interact without prior knowledge of each other. Web Architecture is a great example of how a uniform interface creates a large and dynamic ecosystem of interacting components. This talks presents an overview of the various…
API Strategy 301: API-as-a-Product
Learn how positioning your APIs as products can contribute to success across all aspects of an API program In API Strategy Lesson 203: Building Business Value with a Framework for API Success, we outline key areas of focus essential to designing and maintaining an effective API program. In this lesson, we explain how positioning your APIs as products in themselves…
API Strategy 203: Building Business Value with a Framework for API Success
Build a strategic framework for realizing the business potential of your APIs In Lesson 202: How to Drive Business Value Through APIs, we explore the key ways APIs can deliver real-world value to a business. In this lesson, we outline a strategic framework for realizing this potential value. The lesson addresses four key areas focused on API strategy but…
TechTalk: Common OAuth Security Mistakes and Threat Mitigations
With vulnerabilities recently surfacing in the OAuth implementations of popular service providers like Yammer, Instagram and Facebook, it’s hard to blame anyone for getting the impression that there are fundamental security flaws in the OAuth protocol. Francois Lascelles, Chief Architect at Layer7, answered OAuth questions live, discussed the common security mistakes made in OAuth implementations and explain how…