Enterprise Integration for Beginners

WSO2 API Manager comes with a modularized architecture so that users can scale the components based on their needs. When scaling the WSO2 API manager deployments, it is essential to understand the interconnections between different components. As depicted in the below figure, WSO2 API Manager has 6 main components. Publisher - Creates and Publish APIs and manage API lifecycle Developer Portal (Store) - Discover APIs, Subscribe to APIs, Test APIs Gateway - Process the API requests. Traffic handling component Key Manager - Validate the authenticity of the requests (traffic) coming into the gateway Analytics - Provide analytics on API usability Traffic Manager - Provide throttling and rate limiting of API access The interconnections of these components happen through database, user store(LDAP) sharing. The interconnections are depicted in the below figure. As depicted in the above figure, once the API is created and published from the API publisher, m

Based on the research done by researchandmarkets.com , market cap for Hybrid Integration Platforms (HIP) will grow from 17.14B in 2017 to 33.60B in 2022. This shows the importance of the Hybrid Integration Platforms and their relevance to the enterprises. First of all, it is essential to understand the concept. The term “Hybrid” means a combination of more than one entities (most of the time 2). I drive a hybrid Toyota vehicle which runs on electricity (battery) as well as fuel (petrol). In the world of integration, hybrid means integrating systems which resides on On premise and Cloud When it comes to “on-premise” systems, they can be running on physical hardware, virtual machines, containers or in a virtual private cloud. The meaning of an on-premise system in the world of integration is that user has the control over application maintenance. “Cloud” systems means the systems which are running on public cloud which runs on vendors own data centers (or public Iaas c

We know for a fact that there are more mobile phones than the world population right now (2017 November). Check the below graphics if you don’t aware of it. But this does not mean that every person has a mobile phone. But it is almost every person who can handle a mobile phone will get it by 2020. Check the below graphics from Cicso where they predict by 2020, there will be more people with mobile phones than people with electricity. I will stop right here without going deep into mobile phones. But the above 2 graphics clearly shows us that mobile phones has been democratized so quickly even it has overtaken an essential need like electricity. Most of these mobile devices are in the category of “smart phones” where they have a connectivity to the internet. 10 years back, a farmer living in a rural village in Dambulla, SriLanka may not have even dreamt about having such a device in their hand. But it happened in a way no one could predict. Mobile phones have been democratiz

Digital transformation is as real as it can get. Based on a recent survey done by Gartner, 42% of CEOs have already started working on it. This 42% does not include the tech giants like Google, Facebook, Amazon or Microsoft since they are already beyond the digital transformation (more towards AI part of it). Even though there is still 50% of CEOs who has not started on this journey, they definitely will (hopefully if they want to stay up to the competition). While enterprises are moving towards the digital transformation, the technology itself has gone way beyond the standard term. People who engaged with the technical aspects of the digital transformation has identified that it is not only about individual enterprises’s digital transformation, but the entire industry’s cooperation can reap more rewards to the entreprises as well as customers. That is where the concept of “Open APIs” or “Open standards” came into the grand stand. One of the hot topics in the european region is the