VP Platform EvangelismChris Haddad

SOA and APIConvergence

21 May 2014

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About the Presenter

๏ Chris Haddad

๏ VP Platform Evangelism

๏ F500/G2000 Advisor, Cloudy DevOps for Dev guy

๏ Learn more about me

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Invention comes in many forms and at many scales. The most radical and transformative of inventions are often those that empower others to unleash their creativity – to pursue their dreams.

Jeff Bezos

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Tired of Big SOA?๏ Set up a cross-functional SOA Working Group

๏ Develop a SOA Adoption Plan

๏ Define Target Service Portfolio

๏ Develop a Business Case

๏ Plan and Fund Development of SOA Infrastructure

๏ Establish New Roles

๏ Plan Training and Mentoring for Staff

๏ Develop Corporate Policies, Guidelines, and Best Practices

๏ Institute SOA Governance Processes

๏ Establish New Incentives that Reward Good Behavior

๏ Identify Candidate Projects

๏ Establish Priorities

๏ Reassess Your Software Development LifeCycle (SDLC)5

Start Small

๏ Implement SOA principles on a project-by-project basis

๏ Focus on run-time environment concerns instead of design-time concerns.

๏ Successful IT-driven Small SOA teams promote consumer adoption stories, track service subscribers, and publicize usage growth.

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Pragmatic SOA๏ Share and reuse assets

๏ simplify best practice adoption by mentoring teams and delivering automated governance

๏ balance enterprise governance with project autonomy

๏ Consolidate redundant functionality into fewer moving parts

๏ offer accelerator packs (i.e. infrastructure, tooling, frameworks, and API/service building blocks)

๏ Conform projects to common standards and best practices

๏ Don’t force common (yet complicated) standards

๏ mindful of skill gaps and adoption hurdles

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APIs Everywhere

APIs Connect Everything

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hinchcliffe/running-your-soa-like-a-web-startup/525

ApplyAPI Management

approaches to

Internal Integration

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API Strategy

๏ Embrace the Managed API

๏ Make APIs Easy for Developers to Access

๏ Employ API Lifecycle Governance

๏ Monitor API Use

๏ Establish a Monetization Model

Pragmatic API Design๏ Make data and services maximally accessible

๏ Low barrier to entry

๏ Extend reach towards the largest possible audience

๏ Make API/service consumable by the largest number of user agents

๏ Make data and services evolvable

๏ Extend the system at runtime

๏ Alter resources without impacting clients, Direct client behavior dynamically

๏ Make systems scalable, reliable, and high performing

๏ Simple, Cacheable, Atomic13

API First

APIAPI

Mobile App

Mobile App

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Make Service and API Capabilities Accessible

Start collecting and analyzing subscribers and usage

SOA & REST Reconciliation

๏ When to create services

๏ Create a service when sharing a business capability

๏ When to create APIs

๏ Sharing a service outside a domain of control

๏ Targeting the widest possible reach and consumption

๏ Offering the service across native web infrastructure

๏ Maximizing asymmetric evolution between service clients, interface, and implementation.

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API Façade Pattern

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SOA & REST Reconciliation

๏ How to approach service and API governance

๏ How services and APIs impact application governance

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๏ Service deals with implementation

๏ API deals with subscription (consumer)

๏ Two very distinct life cycles !

๏ You don’t need the service to create the API...

Services and APIs

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References

๏ SOA and API Convergence Strategy and Tactics

๏ Promoting service reuse within your enterprise and maximizing SOA success

๏ REST Easy: API Design, Evolution, and Connection

๏ WSO2 and API Management A Technical Evaluation Guide

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