Transform the internal it landscape with APIs and integration

Transforming Enterprise IT with Containers,
APIs and Integration
Steven Willmott, Senior Director and Head of API Infrastructure
Red Hat Inc.
@njyx, swillmott@redhat.com

Microservices, Containers, APIs & Integration Days 2018
APIs on the Edge, APIs in the Middle
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EXAMPLE RED HAT 3SCALE CUSTOMERS
Customer Depth and Breadth - One of the Largest API Management Vendors Globally.

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COMMON CHALLENGES IN MODERN IT
INFRASTRUCTURE
Integrate SaaS Apps
Extend Legacy Apps
Customer and Partner
Access
IoT Devices and
Architectures
Enable Customer Facing
Apps via Many Channels
Data Access for Business
Users

What do APIs Really Do?
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Provide Stable Reusable Interfaces

MOST COMMON API USE-CASES
Mobile &
IOT Support
Customer
Integration
Partner
Ecosystem
Internal
Agility
APIs as a
Business
Content &
Transaction
Channel

Lines between Internal and External APIs are
Blurring
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INTEGRATION AND APIs DRIVE AIR
TRAVEL INNOVATION
● Schiphol Airport aims for world class traveller
experiences
● Using Red Hat JBoss Fuse to create the right API
endpoints and then putting them in the hands of
partners creates an extended team to deliver
innovation
● Flight, baggage, reservation, and other data are
available throughout the airport and to all partners
● APIs through API Management provide the
foundation for seamless handoff between the
airport and its partners
APIs
- Well defined, re-usable,
and well managed
end-points
- Ecosystem leverage

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CAMPELL’S SOUP: APIs LEAD TO A
BREAKTHROUGH NEW CUSTOMER
CHANNEL
● Initially created a Nutrition and Recipies API to be
used by marketing agencies and application
designers
● Reaching new audiences with the recipie
application “Campell’s Kitchen” on the Amazon
Echo device.
● Very high value brand interaction in the
customers’ residence.
● Leading to possible Integration with Amazon
shopping cart to provision for recipes
APIs
- Partner Marketing
Resource to IoT Backend
- Now Powers Campell’s
Kitchen

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UNIVERSITY CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY
- INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL APIS
● API Central Program
● Student and Study information, University Core
Systems APIs
● But also filtered access to external APIs such as
Dropbox, Google Maps to provide an extensive list
of APIs
● Platform for new applications in the student body
as well as new new inter-department integrations
APIs and Organization
- IT Organization but...
- Providing Student Access
- New Apps and Mashups

EXAMPLE RED HAT 3SCALE CUSTOMERS
Customer Depth and Breadth - One of the Largest API Management Vendors Globally.

THE API OWNER’S MANUAL
● Captured learning from
successful API teams
● Reinforced by recent
experience
● Digital Copy:
https://engage.redhat.com/3scale-api-ow
ners-s-201706160312

Three Things....
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1. Focus on True Value
2. Enable rather than Own
3. Transformation, not
Revolution
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Many initiatives, all urgent, all
intersecting, all conflicting

Jeff Bezos moment?
https://plus.google.com/+RipRowan/posts/eVeouesvaVX (http://bit.ly/SWGA-B)

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Outcomes
Thor Mitchell / Google / Crowdcube
DesirableUndesirable
Expected
Unexpected
Design
Fire Drill Innovation
Prohibited

M
ajor platform
investm
ents
Little
initial traction
Revisited
all
processes
EXAMPLE:
MAPS CREDIT UNION
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylX3hUeYr-U (http://bit.ly/SWGA-C)

Understand the Jeff Bezos moment:
change the way you work, not the
infrastructure you have

Lesson:
Help move the puck as you go

#1 Focus on True Value
#2 Enable rather than Own

“Gartner’s Recipe for Disaster”
- Jason Bloomberg / Forbes
“Gartner’s Bimodal IT considered
harmful”
- Phil Wainwright / Diginomica
“This is akin to adding lipstick to
the pig”
- Simon Wardley / CSC

Fundamental misunderstanding of
Bimodal IT that it was about slowing
down one of the Modes

Actually it is about creating stability
between the modes

Transform the internal it landscape with APIs and integration

Platform Team
Platform Enablement Team

Encourage deployment but…
Provide Technology
Guidance
Impose Stability
Requirements
Require Lifecycle
Statements
Enforce
Documentation
Standards
Enforce Security
Standards
In other words
ensure stability

Create the right environment…
Automation is Key
Treat as a
Capability to run
APIs
Treat APIs as
Products

Lesson:
Enable the platform versus
owning the platform

#1 Focus on true value
#2 Enable rather than own
#3 APIs as a Product

What is an API?:
REST? RESTful? SOAP?
Streaming? ...

It’s the Mindset that is Important
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The Product Mindset
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What does that mean?
Clear Ownership
and Responsability
Identifiable
Audience and User
Base
Documentation and
Onboarding Help
Service Level
Agreements
Proper Lifecycle
Management
Recognition that
people depend on
the API

APIs Matched
ProductOnly two breaking
changes in 10 years
Customer Feedback
loop
EXAMPLE:
3SCALE
Noahm Schwartz, APIStrat, 2015

Millions of devices
syncing
Robust libraries & dev
collaboration
Randomized back off
EXAMPLE:
FITBIT
Jeremiah Lee, San Francisco, 2016

W
eb Ranking API
Realized plugins were
critical
Plugins now
drive
majority of business
EXAMPLE:
SIMILAR WEB
Noahm Schwartz, APIStrat, 2015

Lesson:
Treat APIs a Products. This
pushes you into the right
interactions

#1 Help move the puck
#2 Enable rather than own
#3 APIs as a Product
Bonus: What to Measure?

Bad Metrics
Number of APIs Number of API Calls
Number of
Integrations
Number of
Containers
Number of Servers
Number of Lunch &
Learns

Good Metrics
Number of Apps
Supported
Number of complete
Use Cases
Number of Users
Dollar Value of
Business
Speed of
Application
development
Speed of API
Deployment

● Incremental transformation
● Creating a new organizational
capability
● Treating APIs as products rather
than resources
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME!
● APIs will very likely be a key architectural
component for most organizations
● Red Hat is investing heavily and aiming to be a long
term partner
● Agile Integration, Container Management and API
Management will be a key architectural pillars for
the next 3-5 years

FOLLOW UP MATERIAL
● Red Hat Integration homepage:
https://www.redhat.com/en/technologies/jboss-middleware/integrate
● “Inside mind of a successful platform architect / Gartner APPS 2016”
https://www.slideshare.net/3scale/inside-mind-of-a-successful-platfor
m-architect-gartner-apps-2016
● “API Model Canvas for successful API strategies and programs”
https://www.slideshare.net/3scale/api-model-canvas-for-successful-ap
i-strategies-and-programs
● “The API Owner’s Manual”
https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/3scale-api-owners-manual-ebo
ok

THANK YOU & Q&A!
Steven Willmott
swillmott@redhat.com, @njyx

THREE PILLARS FOR INFRASTRUCTURE
AGILITY
Key capabilities for modern software infrastructure agility
DISTRIBUTED
INTEGRATION
-LIGHTWEIGHT
-PATTERN BASED
-EVENT ORIENTED
-COMMUNITY SOURCED
CONTAINERS
- CLOUD NATIVE SOLUTIONS
-LEARN ARTIFACTS,
INDIVIDUALLY DEPLOYABLE
- CONTAINER BASED
SCALING AND HIGH
AVAILABILITY
APIs
-WELL DEFINED, REUSABLE,
AND WELL MANAGED
END-POINTS
-ECOSYSTEM LEVERAGE
FLEXIBILITY SCALABILITY RE-USABILITY
Tools and Processes

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INTEGRATION DRIVES CONSISTENT
CUSTOMER EXPERIENCE
Containers
Distributed
integration
● Avianca built and deployed a faster, more robust
and consistent enterprise infrastructure to
integrate applications
● Deployed Red Hat JBoss Fuse based integration to
support applications for business-critical functions
such as sales, ticketing, back office, and
maintenance
● Faster integration of new companies and services
● Consistent customer experience across sales,
ticketing & back office applications - path towards
omni-channel experience
- Lightweight
- Pattern based
- Event oriented
- Community sourced

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KEYBANK: SIMPLIFYING AND
ACCELERATING DEVELOPMENT
CYCLES
● Long development cycles. Small under-resourced
release team and a wide range of compliance
checks required
● Container deployment and management across a
broad set of developers. Shrank release times from
2-3 months to 1 week
● Also empowered more people to act and release -
key effect on organizational dynamics
Containers
- Retooled development
and deployment entirely
- Broader availability and
faster rollouts

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INTEGRATION AND APIs DRIVE AIR
TRAVEL INNOVATION
● Schiphol Airport aims for world class traveller
experiences
● Using Red Hat JBoss Fuse to create the right API
endpoints and then putting them in the hands of
partners creates an extended team to deliver
innovation
● Flight, baggage, reservation, and other data are
available throughout the airport and to all partners
● APIs through API Management provide the
foundation for seamless handoff between the
airport and its partners
APIs
- Well defined, re-usable,
and well managed
end-points
- Ecosystem leverage

Control
● Security
● Key Management
● Rate Limiting
● Policy Enforcement
● App & User
Management
● Provisioning
Flexibility
● Distributed
● Multi-Department
● Multi-Environment
● Highly Scalable
● Powerful APIs
● Webhooks
Visibility
● Analytics
● App Tracking
● User Tracking
● Traffic Alerts
● Engagement
● Developer
Support
CAPABILITIES

HIGH LEVEL ARCHITECTURE
● Public Cloud
● Private Cloud
● On-Premises

WHY REDHAT 3SCALE
1. Flexibility/Scalability: Hybrid architecture, separation of policy
management from control nodes. Highly scalable.
2. Quick time to Value: Using the SaaS product, get up and running very
quickly.
3. Automation: APIs, code management for configuration, ready for
Ansible/Puppet/Chef, integration(s) coming with
OpenShift
4. Cost Effective: Generally significantly cheaper than competitors for
equivalent volumes

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