Why API-first?

An API-first strategy, when correctly implemented, can support resilient business scale-up, enabling seamless interconnection between domains across an organization. Adoption of API-first has proven to be a game changer for enterprises such as Amazon, Stripe, and Netflix.

Common API Challenges:

For many organizations, historically, API development has been ad-hoc and organic, with APIs developed as an afterthought. This can lead to:

• Unsecured APIs
• Little or no documentation
• No discoverability
• Poor observability
• A lack of RESTful best practices - which are important for organizations building APIs for external consumption
• Poor developer experience
• Complex consumption patterns
• Challenging system integration.

These issues can slow development and adoption and impact business goals.

Who can benefit?

• Organizations that are planning or executing cloud modernization programs.
• Enterprises moving to API-first.
• Organizations that need to connect on-premises to AWS or hybrid cloud.
• Enterprises that need to accelerate developer productivity, API and microservices adoption.
• Organizations that need to build APIs in regulated environments.

Benefits:

• Centralise ‘Heavy Lifting’: A central point for API authentication, authorization and SSO, frees developers to concentrate on business value activities.
• Improved Observability: Centralised observability for APIs. All logging, metrics and alarms in one place.
• Discoverability and Documentation: Central developer portal and client generation enable teams to discover and consume APIs at pace.
• Governance and Compliance: Meet regulatory requirements for standards such as SOX and DORA with a proven platform architecture.