API Management for development
Today I like to share some cool stuff that we can achieve using API Management (Here I am using Azure API Management). Let’s look, What is API Management…what are the common benefits…Who are the leading vendors in this topic.
API management is the process of overseeing application programming interfaces (APIs) in a secure, scalable environment. The goal of API management is to allow organizations that either publish or utilize an API to monitor the interface’s life cycle and ensure the needs of developers and applications using the API are being met.
By using API Management we are getting number of benefits,
Enabling ISV partner ecosystems by offering fast partner on boarding through the developer portal and building an API facade to decouple from internal implementations that are not ripe for partner consumption.
Running an internal API program by offering a centralized location for the organization to communicate about the availability and latest changes to APIs, gating access based on organizational accounts, all based on a secured channel between the API gateway and the backend.
Expose all APIs behind a single static IP and domain. Secure your APIs using a key, token, and IP filtering. Enforce flexible and fine-grained quotas and rate limits, modify the shape and behavior of your APIs using policies, and improve latency and scale your APIs with response caching.
Get a better understanding of how your APIs are performing and being used. Simplify and optimize requests and responses using transformation policies. Get near-real-time analytics reports to identify trends that might affect your business, plus log request and response data for online and offline analysis.
Some of the leading vendors,
In Azure APIM, policies are a powerful capability of the system that allow the publisher to change the behavior of the API through configuration. Policies are a collection of Statements that are executed sequentially on the request or response of an API.
Here you can find set of policies that helps to achieve certain cool behavior for the API in few lines of code.
