The world's first-ever event-native API Management platform includes API design, access management, deployment, observability and more, and offers various industry-specific solutions.
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Gravitee, a full-lifecycle application programming interface (API) management platform, now offers the world’s first-ever event-native API management. Its features include API design, access management, deployment, observability, and more.
“Event-native” API management, a term coined by the company, refers to the fact that the platform has been designed to intrinsically support event-driven architecture (EDA).
Event-driven architecture is a paradigm that is rapidly gaining popularity, where components interact indirectly, instead of being intrinsically linked. The two main characteristics of this form of API architecture are:
– Loosely-coupled interactions: The two interacting components can perform tasks without heavily relying on each other
– Exchange of messages: Instead of a one-way communication, both ends will send each other messages through a central message broker.
This structure is what powers components in apps, platforms, and websites where a single user-driven change results in the change of state of the component automatically.
In these cases, instead of refreshing the information only when the user takes an action, the component refreshes on its own to match the changes made by the user.
That requires an open communication between the sending component (producer) and receiving component (consumer). The microservice needs to know immediately when a change is made.
In synchronous APIs, the consumer would send a “poll”—a request asking if anything has changed in the state—to the producer.
However, instead of “talking” directly to each other—which would create excess traffic of data—they send messages through a central message broker.
According to Gravitee, event-driven API architecture is useful for managing asynchronous APIs, which deliver immediate results, as opposed to synchronous APIs which deliver the result only once the action is completed by the user.
In other words, instead of a one-way communication, where an action by the user (for example, clicking on a button or pressing enter) will result in a request being sent, there is a steady two-way communication.
Since the channel of communication is always open, security becomes an issue. In such cases, the API management platform needs to provide the proper security measures as well as other features.
They need to:
– Make sure synchronous and asynchronous data is moving reliably
– Ensure the security of the information being transmitted
– Manage the access of the users
– Be able to productize and monetize the APIs that drive these systems
If these conditions are being met, event-driven architecture can offer some benefits:
– Higher tolerance for errors, since one error will not affect the rest of your services
– Buffering, as requests are processed asynchronously, which means the request volume does not affect the output rate
– Scalability, as services can be scaled individually based on the needs of the business
– Less bandwidth usage, since the two-way communication means there is no constant polling to check if there was an event
– Agility, as components are modular and loosely interacting with each other
– Centralized reporting, since all events are going through a central location
With all these benefits, Gravitee claims that event-driven architecture is quickly becoming a must-have for microservice deployment. As a result, it is important now, more than ever, for one’s API management platform to support event driven architecture.
Fortunately, Gravitee offers all of these features, along with the staples of any API management tool. The platform offers API design, deployment, access management, accessibility, and more.
Gravitee is a full-scale API management platform designed to give developers the right tools to manage both synchronous and asynchronous APIs. To learn more about the platform and solutions they offer developers and businesses, please visit https://www.gravitee.io/
Contact Info:
Name: Daniel Batchelor
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Organization: Gravitee
Address: 14 Rue Vieux Faubourg CS 30028, Lille, Hauts-de-France 59800, France
Website: https://www.gravitee.io/
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Release ID: 89082776
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