Deploy a Web API in 15 minutes

By Jerome Louvel @ API Strategy & Practice Conference
San Francisco, October 23-24-25, 2013

Transcript

1. DEPLOY A WEB API IN 15’ All-in-one platform for Web APIs http://apispark.com October 24, 2013 Jérôme LOUVEL jlouvel@restlet.com CEO
2. WEB API PROJECT TYPICAL LIFE CYCLE Create Host Manage Use Promote 1) Do It Yourself (DIY) long, risky, expensive but highly flexible 2) Platform as a Service (PaaS) integrated, fast, cost effective
3. BUILD YOUR DATA SOURCE Step 1
4. DIY APPROACH  Select a database technology  that scales  Specify the schema  tables / sets, keys / queries, indexes  Setup the database  On premise or in the Cloud  Ensure security, high availability and performances  From days to weeks
5. PAAS WAY SOCIAL LOGIN
6. PAAS WAY YOUR DASHBOARD
7. PAAS WAY ENTITY STORE CREATION
8. PAAS WAY DATABASE AS A SERVICE
9. CREATE YOUR WEB API Step 2
10. DIY APPROACH  Select an API framework that  Lets you be productive and gets you on the way  Leverages your skills  Ensures your web API will scale and be secure  Write the code  Code, debug, unit tests  Read, write, update your data  Package the code  From days to weeks
11. PAAS WAY WEB API CREATION
12. PAAS WAY FULLY AUTOMATED
13. DEPLOY YOUR WEB API Step 3
14. DIY APPROACH  Choose a deployment target  Private hosting with firewall / DMZ  Public hosting : Cloud / Dedicated  Select an API management solution  Build your own from Open source, third party products  Leverage an API management service : plug it in tasks and side effects  Guaranty your SLA  Test, QA, iterate, benchmark…  From days to weeks to get started
15. PAAS WAY INSTANT DEPLOY AND AUTO SCALE
16. PROMOTE YOUR API Step 4
17. DIY APPROACH  Write your API documentation  Annotated your API code and generate ?  Use HTML tooling ?  Maintenance costs (versions sync)  Write your client SDKs  Write first SDKs or use a generator  Hope for community contributions for others ?  Test, QA, iterate, etc.  From days to weeks to get started
18. PAAS WAY GENERATE CLIENT SDKS
19. PAAS WAY BUILT-IN ANALYTICS
20. HOW MANY APIS ? TO BUILD AND MAINTAIN Web Site Pages + API Browser Connected devices Smart environment Business Partners Internal IT HTTP
21. FINAL THOUGHTS  How to build 1 million API in 2017 ? – with radically simpler PaaS for Web APIs – an equivalent of Wordpress.com & Tumblr for APIs – truly democratize Web APIs ! Source: Wired / June 2013
22. KEEP IN TOUCH! http://apispark.com http://blog.restlet.com Twitter: @apispark jlouvel@restlet.com Research report written by Kin Lane for GigaOM, undersigned by Restlet