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Digital Transformation and Modernization with IBM API Connect

By : Bryon Kataoka, James Brennan, Ashish Aggarwal
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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

Creating visualizations and dashboards

While the default dashboards address a number of common scenarios, you'll most likely have some additional ways you want to review your analytics. In this section, you'll learn how to create new visualizations and add them to the dashboards. You'll discover how to customize the data arrangements, but for more in-depth learning you should visit https://www.elastic.co/training/free.

Information

If you want to update one of the default dashboards that come with API Connect, you'll need to clone the dashboard first to create a new custom dashboard.

Since the dashboard is the primary view of your analytics, we'll begin by creating dashboards first.

Creating a new dashboard

When you click on the Analytics tab in any of the Catalogs, the first thing you see is the default dashboard. If you want to create a completely new dashboard, you simply click the + button. If you want to update one of the default dashboards...