Sunday, September 4, 2016

An Iterative Approach to Transform your API Strategy using WSO2 APIM

Iterative approach is the choice for most IT related projects today. In the same wary API management at your enterprise can follow an iterative approach that will eventually lead to digital transformation.

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API management can be achieved within a few hours using WSO2 APIM. You can download the latest pack from http://wso2.com/api-management/, deploy and configure it to be production ready instance within a few hours. The deployment is as follows.




Pros
1 - The cost is for single instance and you will get 24*7 WSO2 production support
2 - Deployment is up and running within hours
3 - Minimum hardware/cloud infrastructure requirement (only one node)
4 - Suitable for starters

Cons
1 - No HA
2 - Not network friendly. Where are you going to run this instance? Not in DMZ as this need a database connectivity.
3 - The supported load really depends on your use-case

What if you want HA? This is the next level. You need  high availability. The system should be up and running 99.99%. Then you will need another node.





Pros
1 - The system is highly available
2 - The cost is for single instance and you will get 24*7 WSO2 production support
3 - Deployment is up and running within hours

Cons
1 - Not network friendly. Where are you going to run this instance? Not in DMZ as this need a database connectivity.
2 - The supported load really depends on your use-case

What if your load goes high? You can make the passive node as a traffic serving node. This means production subscription changes from 1 instance to 2 instances. 


Pros
1 - The system is highly available
2 - The cost is for two instance sand you will get 24*7 WSO2 production support
3 - Deployment is up and running within hours

Cons
1 - Not network friendly. Where are you going to run this instance? Not in DMZ as this need a database connectivity.
2 - The supported load really depends on your use-case


What if you want to support more TPS OR complex throttling OR adhere to standard network patterns, where the un-trusted connections are throttled out at the gateway itself. Then you need a distributed deployment where the deployment looks like below. This deployment allows different functional component of API management to scale differently - and these components scale at different proportions.



For this type of deployments you can get solution architecture help from the WSO2 team. This is an API empire that needs to be planned precisely. 

2 comments:

Linda said...

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