Technology is the cornerstone of Internet thinking

This period of time nothing more than "Internet thinking" and "mobile Internet" more attention but ridicule. Someone concluded that the fan economy and so on are the cornerstones of the Internet thinking, but in the eyes of a traditional IT management company, behind every new thinking, can really be called the cornerstone of the technology. Advances in technology have given birth to the Internet economy, and such changes are projected in the minds of the people before new thinking forms. Liu Guoqiang, CA Technologies China Technical Director, said: "The application-centric, software-centric, is the future of all business problems facing all enterprises, whether manufacturing, aviation, finance or services, the last evolved into IT companies because all services and products are delivered through software, such as banks, manufacturing and physical stores, etc. Manufacturing, such as the automotive industry, offers a variety of personal services to keep customers. And 40% of the features in the car are served through software, so how to provide better and more convenient services to end customers and partners is at the heart of the enterprise. "API is coming, have you noticed? APIs are the product of the rise of the Internet and cloud computing. Including the cloud provider Amazon, the Internet giant Google, social media Twitter, its services are provided through the API. API heat appears earlier in the West. As early as 2012, the API brought significant economic benefits to international Internet giants: more than half of Salesforce's annual income of 2.3 billion U.S. dollars was generated through the API, and Google processed 5 billion transactions through the API every day . Relative to foreign countries, the API economy has also begun to take shape in the country, but it has not caused much concern. Domestic like WeChat, QQ, everyone, there is a development platform, the development platform there API management. API if used for commercial purposes will be charged according to the number of functions, the number of calls, priority, etc. into different cost models. Therefore, API billing is not only the patent of Internet companies, all banks, businesses and even the government can use, just as the UnionPay transfer between different banks, belong to the API use. In the past, most enterprises were invoked between internal systems, and now all the services that the system can provide are all opened up in the form of API to form an API management portal, which is divided into enterprise developers and individual developers who must be certified and paid Can be used to pay the higher the cost, you can call more services. The essence of API is a service, ubiquitous service. And mobile is a carrier, a manifestation; mobility is essentially making services available anytime, anywhere. A variety of APP on the phone, in fact, are a service entrance and access to provide services that are back-end API-related, safe to use the API. API management is the need to manage the identity of developers and users, the first of which is the issue of identity. API, how to use it? CA Technologies' API management platform already has many customers, including several airlines specialized API gateways. However, domestic enterprises pay more attention to API economy. Airlines need to manage the API because users on their cell phones are required to make online purchases or online check-in. They need to enter credit cards and all kinds of information and contact the government to verify passenger identity. Before we buy services are purchased as a whole package as a unit, now split very clearly, because there are many systems back-end will be charged separately, according to the API to billing. API has two kinds of charges, according to the amount of billing and function billing. Choose different functions of the package, the larger the higher the charge. API is no longer a simple open function, but to open to whom, how billing. This is why APIs need Portal to manage them. In the past, APIs had a very small amount of traffic, either system-to-system calls or forced calls. When the API suddenly became a service concept, the number of calls was massive, which means that the management of the API has become imperative. The identity of the API to be unified management, API single sign-on, API capabilities, API billing all single point of management, which gave birth to the concept of API economy. There are different types of APIs, many of them are standards, old and legacy APIs, and newer, more standard APIs for the Internet industry. CA Technologies can convert and encapsulate APIs and convert to the industry's most standard, popular, easy-to-use, and easy-to-use API, regardless of the model's APIs the business is using.
API, how to manage? More and more businesses are opening up their data and applications to partners, developers, mobile apps and cloud services. The standardized approach provided by the API can be used to open information assets in the web, mobile devices, service-oriented architecture (SOA), and the cloud. Enterprises need to implement secure and reliable API information sharing in a low-cost manner so that they can actively face the harsh challenges of security, performance management, and data adjustment. A complete set of API management methodology should include advanced capabilities such as backend integration, mobile optimization, cloud coordination, and developer management to address the challenges faced by the various API management organizations. Liu Guoqiang believes that API management involves at least three parts: 1. API Gateway, as a service consumer and service provider bridge, but identity management and conversion, API access control and traffic management, and API permissions management, but also Track API performance and generate review tracking of all service interactions. 2.API service management, can be used to transform the internal obsolescence of the new API format, while from the development, testing and production of the entire API life cycle management. 3.API developer portal management, in the portal API developers can provide the following management functions: • Developer Registration: classification of individual users, business users, free users or pay users. • Developer Resources: Available for developers to use: discussion and support communities, integration of messages, API documentation, API resource manager, API status, application reporting, and more. • API reporting and analysis: API reports for tracking and measuring API usage, successes and errors, delays, etc., and application reports for displaying latency, usage, successes, and errors. • API Portal Content Management: Simplifies change management by defining the look, feel, make and content of the portal interface and supporting planning and production environments and content approval, release and rollback processes. CA Technologies provides a suite of API management platforms to ensure the efficiency and security of enterprise API management. According to Forrester's analysis report, the solution is also an industry-leading API management platform and API application management product. Embracing the API Economy, the First to Win the Internet Economy Whether it's calling it an API or an API, these two slightly cold, machineized terms are no longer just concerns for developers and IT practitioners. In the future, all enterprises will become software companies, and software largely defines the vision and future of an enterprise. It is for this reason that APIs have been able to emerge from boring code and show its value vividly to the world. To promote the trend or be forced to move forward by the trend, the choice is in their own hands.