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Overview Gateway metrics are a critical piece of intel to determine the health of Services and traffic throughput on an API Gateway. Using Layer7 API Management as an example, there are a few ways we can obtain this information: Policy Manager: Dashboard, PAPIM (Precision API Monitoring), sending this information to a monitoring solution via Gateway […]
A Simple Framework (Experiences) This is the third and last part of the paper proposing a framework that enables DevOps teams to issue REST API calls via bash shell scripts. This part shares some experiences/lessons learned from real world applications. Experiences It would be nice if API publishers simply provided an API client SDK in […]
A Simple Framework (Extension) This is the second part of the paper proposing a framework that enables DevOps teams to issue REST API calls via bash shell scripts. This part discusses the extension beyond the core of the proposed framework. The third part shares some lessons learned from real world applications. The Basics The basic […]
Recently at API world I was able to see many new Enterprise API architectures (“marketechtures,” as one engineering director called it, got few laughs but I chuckled quietly to myself) including some high-level diagrams from large well-known providers of services leveraged by enterprises and common end-users alike. Several companies separate the concept of API Gateways […]
A Simple Framework: Core This is the first part of a paper proposing a framework that enables DevOps teams to issue REST API calls via bash shell scripts. The second part of the paper discusses the extension beyond the core of the proposed framework. The third part shares some experiences learned from real world applications. […]
API Academy Learn how to use REST to build developer-friendly, sustainable APIs The Representational State Transfer (REST) architectural style is extremely valuable to organizations that want to create APIs as a way to leverage their existing IT resources in new Web and mobile apps. By applying REST design principles to a protocol, such as HTTP, […]
API Academy Manage security and performance risks created by opening enterprise systems via APIs Traditional enterprise are blurring, as organizations open their on-premise data and application functionality for use in new internal and external applications. APIs form the foundation of this open enterprise, allowing enterprises to reuse their existing information assets across organizational boundaries. To […]
API Academy Address key functional and operational characteristics of an effective API Management solution This white paper examines the different functional and operational requirements for an enterprise-level API Management solution. In doing so, it gives IT managers, Web managers and enterprise architects key information for selecting an API Management solution. The API is undergoing a […]
API Academy Make OAuth implementation simple for your organization OAuth is an emerging Web standard that lets users grant third-party clients restricted access to resources they own. In the past, it was common to ask a user to share username and password information with the client. OAuth authentication is more secure as it allows the […]
API Academy Create a framework to address the complex challenges associated with implementing OAuth There are a number of important access-related challenges for API publishers. However, deploying OAuth as an authorization mechanism for enterprise APIs raises challenges around scalability, correct usage and integration. To make matters worse, OAuth is not supported by existing infrastructure and […]
