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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

Introducing Analytics

This section will introduce the analytics that comes with API Connect and how to begin customizing it for your needs. The analytics that come with API Connect is implemented with open source from the Elastic Stack (ELK – Elasticsearch, Log Stash, and Kibana). In version 5 of API Connect, this component was installed on the management server. With version v10, analytics is separated from the management service and provides greater flexibility and better performance. Analytics servers are associated with Gateways. The administrator configures this relationship in the Topology view in the Cloud Manager. The Gateway collects the metric data for each API executed and sends the data to the associated analytics server.

Architect Tip

While this book is primarily for architects and developers, understanding some basic planning and configurations for analytics can be valuable knowledge. For instance, you should consider using MQ queueing to ensure your Gateway...