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Enterprises normally have a technology estate that helps manage the different intra and interconnections – such as with vendors, clients, intranet systems, CRMs, retailers, payment systems and so on. But these different corporate tools may lack coherence and proper support.
This necessitates a strategy that will drive down dependencies on external software and establish APIs that can be moulded and customized to your business needs. When properly managed, your APIs allow for greater internal flexibility while establishing connectivity both internally (marketing, sales, customer service) and externally (apps, websites, platforms to offer the company's own APIs to third parties).
Such a strategy, among other things, requires a robust API gateway as a single point of entry for identity and access management, and throttling.
An API gateway provides a single, secure point of entry to access all your APIs. It offers a simple, consistent interface for all clients and partners to access your APIs and plays a key role in full lifecycle API management.
Its key functionalities include:
At a bare minimum, an API gateway needs to provide a runtime component. This component is responsible to receive the client request (typically an HTTP JSON request), apply some transformations, aggregate and call the required backend services and provide response back to the client in the format conducive to the front end.
Typically, the API gateway is exposed to the Internet. Hence security is paramount. This is achieved through standard practices like API keys, OAuth and 1-way/2-way TLS. These are bundled in some format on the API gateway, to be easily applied on the APIs, as required, usually as configuration, rather than code.
The incoming requests from the clients may follow a different pattern compared to the protocols under which the internal services operate. Hence, some features are required to translate the external client representation into the patterns and protocols that internal components communicate on. For this, typically some standard features like XML/JSON conversions, protocol manipulations such as changing HTTP GETs to POSTs, modification of headers, query and payload parameters are provided. For more advanced use-cases and requirements, some scripting may be required which can be achieved through JavaScript, GoLang, Java, Python, Node.js etc.
Additional features like request/response caching are supported by API gateways. This saves round trips to the downstream services and re-use the existing responses leading to lower latencies, faster response times and enhanced customer experience.
For the internal management of the API gateway assets, a configuration database is required. This manages assets like API keys, configuration data, routing rules, access tokens, key-value maps, etc. Since throughput is of prime importance; low latency, NoSQL, in-memory databases are popular choices.
Since the APIs need to be exposed and will be used by external developers, we need a mechanism to share them. This is done through a publisher portal. Here we capture the details of APIs, access patterns and documentation. Community forum boards, technical assistance and monetization features and options can also be placed here.
As an API provider, we need to analyse which APIs are being consumed and how they are performing. For this, we need a strong analytics platform, which can measure statistics like transactions per Second (TPS) and error rates. Based on this analysis, we can provide deep and valuable insights to the product teams.
API monetization is a powerful capability to help leverage your digital assets, build a commercial infrastructure and revenue generating streams. With monetization, third-party API developers and other partners that use your assets can be charged for your API products.
Here are some common, non-exhaustive list of criteria to help you select an API Gateway:
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