apidays London 2023 - 7 pillars of an API Factory, Patrick Brosse, Amadeus

apidays London 2023 - APIs for Smarter Platforms and Business Processes
September 13 & 14, 2023

7 pillars of an API Factory: An API as a manufactured product
Patrick Brosse, Head of API and Data model Governance at Amadeus

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Transcript

1. API Factory : 7 pillars for API as Manufactured product Patrick Brosse Head of API Design Amadeus IT Group
2. from First API to API design first Amadeus vision
3. GET / api / factory ? from = “Prototype” & to = “Industrialization” & via = “Componentization” Patrick Brosse Head of API Design & Data Model Amadeus IT Group
4. Build an elegant, future-proof API in minimum time Challenge Safe Travel API Elegant Complex functionality, simple to use Future-proof Update without affecting original design. Minimum time Urgency due to pandemic.
5. Design first Manufactured Industry GET / api /specification 200 OK { from: “Business” to: “Functionality” via: “Methodology” }
6. Usability Manufactured Industry GET / api / portals 200 OK { - Documentation - tutorial - SDK - Support }
7. Automation Manufactured Industry GET / api / standard 200 OK { - quality - security }
8. Community Manufactured Industry GET / api / prototyping 200 OK { - Agile Methodology - Process - Organization - }
9. Traceability Manufactured Industry GET / api / hateoas { from: domain-relationship to : links via: Domain Driven Design }
10. Identification Manufactured Industry GET / api / uri { from: Service centric to : Data centric via: REST Uniform Interface }
11. Components Manufactured Industry POST / api / reusabilty 200 OK { from: “Business” to: “API Contract” via: “Data Model” }
12. Take inspiration for industrialization Open API Platform : Create a Factory of Components
13. Take inspiration for industrialization Construction plan
14. Take inspiration for industrialization Factory of Components
15. As-a-product Manufactured Industry GET / api / as-a-product 200 OK { from: “Software” to: “Api contract” via: “Data model” }
16. Thank you! developers.amadeus.com pbrosse@amadeus.com References Article: Data as a Product: What We Can Learn from More Established Industries Jeremy Posner Podcast : Docs-as-Code for better collaboration at Amadeus for Developers Anna Tsolakou and Mathieu Pincovai