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Digital Transformation and Modernization with IBM API Connect

By : Bryon Kataoka, James Brennan, Ashish Aggarwal
Book Image

Digital Transformation and Modernization with IBM API Connect

By: Bryon Kataoka, James Brennan, Ashish Aggarwal

Overview of this book

IBM API Connect enables organizations to drive digital innovation using its scalable and robust API management capabilities across multi-cloud and hybrid environments. With API Connect's security, flexibility, and high performance, you'll be able to meet the needs of your enterprise and clients by extending your API footprint. This book provides a complete roadmap to create, manage, govern, and publish your APIs. You'll start by learning about API Connect components, such as API managers, developer portals, gateways, and analytics subsystems, as well as the management capabilities provided by CLI commands. You’ll then develop APIs using OpenAPI and discover how you can enhance them with logic policies. The book shows you how to modernize SOAP and FHIR REST services as secure APIs with authentication, OAuth2/OpenID, and JWT, and demonstrates how API Connect provides safeguards for GraphQL APIs as well as published APIs that are easy to discover and well documented. As you advance, the book guides you in generating unit tests that supplement DevOps pipelines using Git and Jenkins for improved agility, and concludes with best practices for implementing API governance and customizing API Connect components. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to transform your business by speeding up the time-to-market of your products and increase the ROI for your enterprise.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Section 1: Digital Transformation and API Connect
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Section 2: Agility in Development
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Section 3: DevOps Pipelines and What's Next

Consumer interaction

You have put in all of this work designing, developing, testing, and organizing your APIs and they are finally published and waiting for the world to discover them! It is this interaction that is just as critical as all of the previous steps you have taken to get to this point. It is how the end consumer sees and interacts with your published Products and APIs that will make all the difference. Are they well organized and easily discoverable? Did you use proper descriptions and keywords for them to search on? All of this matters when the consumers are trying to discover your APIs. In this section, we will look at the consumer's interaction with your Developer Portal so that you can get an idea of how they will navigate, search, and interact within the portal.

While developing your APIs within APIC, you are working within a provider organization that you are a member of. Just like we have provider organizations containing developers who provide the APIs...