When productizing your APIs to create new sources of revenue or to improve user experience with modern apps or services, your toughest challenge will likely come from ensuring API quality as you accelerate up to DevOps speeds. Along with a much faster time to market, you will need to handle the high complexity and potential costs and security risks that come with a proliferation of integrations. Increasingly, companies are solving their quality-at-speed challenges with continuous API management that extend across the whole product lifecycle. However, continuous API management leaves QA vulnerabilities that can only be covered by the right continuous testing solution. Join this webinar to learn what those vulnerabilities look like, and how to unify API management and API testing to solve the problem via two cloud-native platforms. Simplify QA in the product lifecycle through Design, Build, Test, and Release, and enforce a standardized testing/QA policy across the entire organization. The slide deck will showcase: - What makes a good API product - The API product mantra - The importance of API testing - How companies can achieve quality at DevOps speed - How to release more reliable, better-performing APIs Watch the on-demand webinar here - https://wso2.com/library/webinars/best-practices-for-productizing-apis-with-api-management-and-automated-testing/

1. Best Practices for
Productizing APIs
June 16, 2020

2. Hello!
Patrick Poulin
Mifan Careem
CEO and Co-Founder, API Fortress
mifan@wso2.com
patrick@apifortress.com
Vice President, Solution Architecture - WSO2

3. What makes a good
product...
3
Usability
Reliability
Efficiency
Desirability
Utility
Availability

4. APIs are the product of the 21st Century

5. APIs encapsulate Value
● APIs are how digital value is delivered
● Monetized either directly or indirectly
● Increasingly intermediated, traded and
marketed
● Not just between organisations but
within organisations as well
5

6. 6
Tenets of API
Products
API Strategy
Testing
API Design
Implementation
Documentation
Observability
Monetization
Continuous
Deployment
Security
Governance

7. Business
Drivers of
an API
7
● Streamline internal assets
⦿ Reuse
⦿ Innovate
⦿ Facade
● Better or newer
customer reach
⦿ Channels
⦿ Compliance
API Strategy

8. 8
API Design

9. 9
Documentation

10. Monetization

11. 11
API Management Runtime
Development

12. 12
Marketplace as a Platform

13. Best Practices
for Productizing
APIs
Patrick Poulin
patrick@apifortress.com

14. Require Three
Key Factors

15. Security
Akamai’s State of the
Internet report (pdf)
found “83% of all web
traffic in 2018 was in
API traffic.”
“Through 2022, at least
95% of cloud security
failures will be the
customer’s fault.”
Jay Heiser, VP at Gartner
Quality
SLA’s Uptime vs
Functional Uptime
Reliability

16. How is that
achieved?

17. 17Best Practices for Productizing APIs |

18. What’s a
Good
Functional
API Test?

19. 19Best Practices for Productizing APIs |

20. 20Best Practices for Productizing APIs |

21. 21Best Practices for Productizing APIs |

22. Show Me
How

23. 23API Monitoring – A False Sense of Security |
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quantity: 5,
color: ["white","red"],
price: 29.99,
imageURL: http://apif.com/baseball_cap.jpg,
name: "Baseball Cap",
description: "Boston Red Sox Baseball Cap",
id: 1,
category: "head",
},
{
quantity: 7,
color: ["blue","yellow","red"],
price: 39.99,
imageURL: http://apif.com/long_sleev_shirt.jpg,
name: "Long Sleeve Shirt",
description: "A wonderful long sleeve shirt",
id: 2,
category: "body",
},
{
quantity: 50,
color: ["red","gray"],
price: 49.99,
imageURL: http://apif.com/earmuffs.jpg,
name: "Earmuffs",
description: "Keep those ears warm in the winter!",
id: 3,
category: "ears",
},
]
http://demoapi.apifortress.com/api/retail/product?q=red

24. 24API Monitoring – A False Sense of Security |
[
{
quantity: 50,
color: ["red","gray"],
price: 49.99,
imageURL:
http://apif.com/earmuffs.jpg,
name: "Earmuffs",
description: "Keep those ears warm in
the winter!",
id: 3,
category: "ears",
},
]
http://demoapi.apifortress.com/api/retail/product?q=red
http://demoapi.apifortress.com/api/retail/product/3

25. 25Best Practices for Productizing APIs |

26. In Summary

27. 27Best Practices for Productizing APIs |

28. USPS
60 million personal
account details
Twitter
17 million
accounts
India
1.1 billion
identities
Security
28Best Practices for Productizing APIs |

29. One Test
Suite to Rule
Them All

30. 30Best Practices for Productizing APIs |

31. Question Time!
31

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