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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

Developer Portal

Once you have configured your carefully planned out Provider Organization, Catalogs, and spaces, you can technically begin developing and publishing your APIs and products. Although you might be tempted to jump right into this, there is one final piece we must configure so that the consumers can discover your APIs—the Developer Portal. You might develop the most useful APIs going, but as we said earlier in this chapter – if no one can find them, they aren't much good.

The Developer Portal is the place developers will go to discover and register for your APIs that are available. This is where you will socialize your APIs to the outside world. This is their window into your API organization. In addition to socializing your APIs, the Developer Portal also provides analytics, forums, blogs, and rating facilities.

Since this is where the consumers of your APIs will go to find them, the Developer Portal will be a representation of your company...