White paper for Gravitee.io by Jason Bloomberg
Building Real-Time Digital Products with Event APIs
The days when we’d refresh a web page to retrieve updated information are largely behind us. Instead, we expect a rich, real-time experience from our digital touchpoints – no refresh required.
Such real-time behavior depends upon asynchronous interactions and the infrastructure to support them.
Synchronous, request/reply protocols like REST and SQL still play important roles, but are now more of a special case of the more general asynchronous, streaming modes of interaction.
At the center of this shift to real-time behavior is the role of the API. No longer merely a request/reply interface, today’s event APIs support the full range of both asynchronous and synchronous interactions. In today’s modern world of cloud native computing, event API management platforms are critically
important for securing, controlling, and managing the performance of event APIs – essential for monetizing APIs while controlling their costs
This whitepaper goes over the limitations of Synchronous Interactions, the evolution of APIs and API Management, managing productizing, and Monetizing Event APIs and how to Secure Event APIs in a Cloud Native World.
By the end, you’ll have learned about:
- The limitations of Synchronous APIs and the Imperative to adapt to real-time
- The evolution of API management and Cloud Computing with asynchronous events.
- Best practice in securing Event APIs in this Cloud Native World
- How to manage, productize and monetize Event APIs
Download the white paper here. (Registration required.)
