Pim Gaemers, Lead API Management at Rubix

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Rubix Some of our API &
API Management customers
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HQ Den Bosch Netherlands, 59 employees
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Specialist in:
– Process- & Systems integration
– API Management
– Continous integration & Continous delivery
(DevOps)
– Event Processing & Big Data
– Platform Migration
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Services: Consultancy & Projects, SoFa,
Maintenance, QA
Context

One of the largest airports in Europe..

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Sitting on a trove of information
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Silo-ed in different systems and LoB’s
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Not the owner of all the data
…How to extract value from this data?
Create an API Strategy

...create a customer data strategy based on API’s

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Improve the customer experience of passengers and
visitors offering relevant information in their journey
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Improve the airport processes by offering predictive
analytics to process experts
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Development priority: products that benefit both
objectives
Starting the journey

Let mode 2 run it

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Business requirements are still fuzzy
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Time to market is important
….create a separate team with a dedicated focus
 The first leg of the journey
Start building
From custom interfaces The API Management
to Open API’s Platform (on-premise)
HELP!!!
I want to go public!!

Release the platform

Start building Internally and sponsors
PoC + The API (on-premise)
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Start small Vendor selection
3scale selected
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gradually grow
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Go public
Along the way it becomes more then just API Management
MVP architecture

…create a first MVP to quickly test the API

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API’s run on-premise
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3scale APIcast gateway on IaaS in the cloud
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3scale API Manager as SaaS
...after the MVP address the scalability concerns
Scale out

It’s not just API Management anymore

…only one real way to scale. It’s cloud.
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What about security?
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How to integrate a cloud with an on-prem solution
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SaaS, PaaS, IaaS, Serverless, containers??
Make the API Public
...Openshift was the way to go for cloud agnostic
scalable workloads.
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Created a operational data cache
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Solution contained:
– Fuse
– EAP
– A-MQ
– Elasticsearch
Challenges & Lessons learned
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Public API’s are hard to correct
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So experiment in advance
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Try betatesting, hackathons, etc.
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Focus hard on developer marketing
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Talk to your legal team early on
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Take your time with infrastructure and security
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Then focus on developer marketing again. No
really, it’s important