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A Modern business needs flexibility to cope-up with the high-paced market. This criterion calls for networks that have interchangeable functionality. The business can achieve it by creating application building blocks with dedicated and agile characteristics and putting them together with well-optimized APIs.
The Application Network
Connecting API-enabled microservices with API strategic approach creates a composable network. How? The network lets the business quickly club different services of multiple functionalities according to the demand, allowing the business to be agile and innovative.
Application Building Block: Analysis
Composed of application building blocks, an application network has multiple elements. It is necessary to have separate knowledge on the area of each of their impacts.
The building blocks have features similar to good products and should be considered as a product.
Application Building Block: Lifecycle management
Building Block life cycle has three stages:
Design
Design an API
The API designer must start with an outside-in perspective. After that:
- Identify process and business requirements
- Create a logical data model
- Translate it into logical service or API groupings
Stimulate
The API developers must design the API Contract first, which includes:
- Model API resources
- Model API operations/methods
- Model request/response payload/codes
Feedback
Now the API designer is ready to validate the API and test it with the API Customers.
- Mockup the API
- Publish interactive console
- Create Notebook and use cases
- Receive developer feedback
Validate
Repeatability and repeatability across other APIs decide how well-designed the API is. To check that:
- Modify appropriate API design basing developers’ feedback
- Continue to validate
Implementation
Avoid Ad-Hoc Fashion, Connect Systematically
Next-generation enterprise requires API connection to a backend and interconnection to be in a systematic manner.
Include best API Practices and Design Principles
Benefits of including best practices are:
- Increased Business agility
- Offer prescribed procedures with reusable formats and logic.
- Grasp best practice patterns.
- Deploy APIs rapidly
Testing
The API providers are now ready to test the API. Test automation tools are vital in the process as it merges into DevOps processes.
Management
Accept DevOps
Reduce time-to-production with DevOps-focused processes. A lightweight hybrid integration platform is the key to seamless support.
Securely govern All traffic
Apply policies at runtime to ensure that the application building blocks are backed by best security practices and architectural governance. This calls for the need to monitor.
Discoverability and On-Ramp
The business needs to publish its APIs appropriately to ensure that developers find, research, and understand the APIs. It will enrich the business’ API visibility among thousands of APIs in the application network.
Change in Application Building Blocks
Building Blocks change with time. The business must have carefully planned policies, procedures, and platforms to handle client migration effortlessly.
Business API lifecycle should be managed efficiently and logically to make the most of it. Proper Backup plans are necessary to manage the shift of clients to updated API versions. For more information, please visit, www.massiltechnologies.com