How your API strategy won’t deliver if you don’t develop a practice that puts design-thinking first and APIs first. Axway Catalysts Brian Otten and John Wiese ensure that your APIs are safe and secure while taking the journey through the API lifecycle.

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Scalable API Design
and Lifecycle for the
Future
Brian Otten
John Wiese | July 2019
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Optimizing the customer
experience by helping to break
down barriers, responding quickly
to problems and needs and
building relationships, reinforcing
Axway as a trusted advisor.
catalysts
Brian
Otten
John
Wiese
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Let’s
Build an
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What are
we building,
and why?
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What is the value proposition of
your API?
● Think like a Product
Manager
● Think like a Software
Developer
● Think like someone …
Using your API !
● Relieve Pains
● Create Gains
● Design
● Test
● Iterate
Your API Value Proposition !
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API Value Proposition
Canvas
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Design First
● API Design Management
● Standards
● Data Models
● Governance
● Documentation
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User Story commit
OAS spec requires but
missing design oversight
code
Before
After
API shipped!?
build and publish test
deploy artifact to test env
deployment done, let
devs know
verify deployment,
correctness, test MVAPI
deploy API to
prod
test, doc,
consume?
business/PM
dev
devops
OAS spec
mock, test,
create
deployshare approved!
API shipped and delights users!
business model
value
proposition
customer
journey
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OK, now,
let’s create
APIs!
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Step 1: Stoplight.io | Create an OpenAPI specification
Step 2: API Builder | Use the OAS spec to mock and create APIs
Step 3: AMPLIFY Central | Secure, Throttle, Apply Governance
[“Create”, “Control”, “Consume”]
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Create API
using
API Builder
Axway API
Builder
Create Build Deploy Manage
Build with
Git and
Docker Hub
Run API your
Runtime
Service
Axway
AMPLIFY
Central
Manage &
Consume
with AMPLIFY
Central
Design API
using
Stoplight
Design
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BuildManageUse
● Access Control
● Security
● Quotas
● Transformation
● Service Catalog
● Self Service
● Analytics
➔ API Portal
➔ Swagger/OAS
➔ API Keys
➔ OAuth
➔ HTTP
➔ JSON
➔ Sandbox
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● Easily create data models & API
endpoints
● GUI runs on your laptop
● Connectors to databases, systems
& web services
● Advanced logic & composite APIs
● Graphical flow editor – no/low
coding!
● Produces Docker Images
API Builder
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