building a business-facing mobile developer community

MobileDeveloper

Community

SOA Software

Andy Jones

• 25 years in complex systems

• Usually starting with someone

saying or writing “How could we

possibly achieve …”

• It’s about …

• New ideas

• From concept to production

• And I started with …

Big ideas require small ideas:

Project 1 => 22 patents

Sir Dave Brailsford

“it’s important to understand the ‘aggregation of marginal gains’. Put

simply….how small improvements in a number of different aspects of

what we do can have a huge impact to the overall performance of the

team.”

Olympics Gold Silver Bronze

2000 1 1 2

2008 7 4 2

GB Track Cycling

Generation

The Innovation Value Chain

Innovation is not the product of logical thought,

although the result is tied to logical structure

Albert Einstein

ConversionIdea Diffusion

Ref: Hansen and Birkinshaw

London Business School

Can’t

select

Can’t

execute

Can’t

collaborate

Roles and Functions

API – Benefits and Challenges

• Benefits

– Productivity• Many hands

• Outsourced model

• Natural risk sharing

– Innovation

– Flexibility

– Re-use

• Challenges

– Security

– Sustaining benefit as deployment become increasingly entangled

– Understanding usage and costs of shared resources

– ? Consistent adoption across a complex enterprise

– ? Cost of compliance

Enough Problems !

Solutions ?

Outside -> innovation

- Engage resources outside the enterprise

- They can see solutions you can’t

- You can see problems they can’t

- The “voice of the customer” !

- Provide suitable capabilities

- Abstract your business – loose coupling no longer optional

- Simplify to reflect the customers view

- Prioritise key business functions

- Stop saying “No!” to Marketing

- Be easy to work with

Solution Needs

• Flexibility

– Solution must match the enterprise

– Solution must match the partners

– Solution must evolve as maturity evolves

• Access

– Solution must encompass all relevant stakeholders

• End to End Solution

– API Management integrated with SDLC

– Run time enforces policies determined by architecture and enterprise

strategy

– Run time monitors usage

Matching PartnerNeeds

Matching the Partner Needs

• Flexibility

– Move fast to meet emerging technical trends

– Present different interfaces to different partner types

– Provide the right support infrastructure

• Access

– Make it easy for them to discover what you have

– Make it easy to get help

– Allow and promote collaboration

• End to End Solution

– What does this mean to you ? Onboarding ? App approval ? API

promotion ?

Managing Entitlements

Quality

Of Service

Scopes

Licence Terms

Operations

Scopes & Policies

Licence

Content Filtering

• Provide a content firewall,

protecting against malicious

content

• Validate message content

including message headers,

form and query parameters,

XML and JSON data

structures.

• Policies for XML and JSON

• Protection against viruses in

attachments and other binary

content via ICAP integration

with leading anti-virus

engines

Quota Management/Rate Limiting

Restrict the number of calls an App can make

Apply controls based on context, affinity, segmentation etc.

Mediation

• Reuse existing assets and services to create modern APIs that meet

consumer requirements

• Transport Mediation

– http, https, JMS

• Binding Mediation

– REST to and from SOAP

– SOAP versions

• Content Mediation

– XML to and from JSON

– Transformation

• Policy Mediation

– Security Token exchange

– WS-Policy interoperability

Analytics

Deploy a Gateway or Deploy a Proxy ?

Lightweight container

for API facade

Gateway fulfills additional

roles in the architecture

Routing & Flow Control

The Need for Speed …

Systems of Innovation

Systems of Differentiation

Systems of RecordSpeed !

Speed !!

Speed !!!

On boarding

Caring for the Community

• Provide a social developer engagement platform

• Integrate API documentation

• Automate App access provisioning

• Integrated discussion and newsfeeds

• Trouble ticket management

• Search with full content indexing

• API and App privacy and group management – essential for B2B and partner APIs

Developer Engagement

But what does the enterprise need ?

• Access for API Owners

– Who controls the docs ?

– Who controls access ?

• What needs to be approved ?

– API access ?

– Developer id ? Organsiation id ?

• Who needs to approve it ?

– One owner ?

– A workflow across a group of stakeholders ?

Best practice or your practice ?

New measures, new roles

External

scout ?

Internal Idea

Broker ?

Internal

Venture

Capitalist ?

Number

of ideas ?

Proportion of

good ideas ?

Value from

shared ideas ?

Successful

conversion ?

So ….

• Provide the infrastructure that suits your business model

• Match your internal governance needs

Then the fun part …

So ….

• Provide the infrastructure that suits your business model

• Match your internal governance needs

- Allow innovation – Promote innovation – Support innovation

- Expect the unexpected – flexibility and security

- Measure benefit and retain imagination

Then the fun part …

Questions

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