1. Digital Economy and APIs
API Strategy Best Practice
Alex Wilson. CISSP
API Evangelist and Educator
New Zealand â December 2016
Alexb.Wilson@ca.com
60. Examples of Increasing Speed
âą Zero bureaucracy, donât ask for permission
âą Zero validation, donât test anything
âą Increase change frequency
âą Higher faster programmers
âą Use un-constrained languages and tools
âą Change production directly
62. We want to combine the extraordinary
customer-serving capabilities that are enabled
by size with the speed of movement,
nimbleness, and risk-acceptance mentality
normally associated with entrepreneurial start-
ups.
Jeff Bezos Wants Amazon to be Fast
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Jeff Bezos
Amazon 2015 Letter to Shareholders
63. Examples of Increasing Safety
âą Strong governance, control everything
âą Always validate, test everything
âą Reduce change frequency
âą Higher safer programmers
âą Use constrained languages and tools
âą No access to production environments
67. Applying the Microservices Way
1. Establish the right boundaries everywhere
2. Build a system that makes change feel easy and safe
3. Implement the right processes and standards
4. Steer the system and measure it
5. Accept that right, easy and safe are a product of time
and context