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APIs can help you gain traction in digital transformation, more market share opportunities, more transactions, more scalable and secure connectivity between system solutions of your business.

With your software solutions exposed in the cloud through APIs, it is possible to operate your business with more commercial, financial and logistical transactions in a safe and agile way. Your business model can be rejuvenated with the adoption of APIs.

When designing an API project, think about exposing a developer portal, an API HUB, capable of exposing the APIs, documentation and a tasting concept. Allow your client to connect to your APIs at development time through a sandbox.

Why I have to developer an API HUB?

An API Hub is the best practice to monitor, control and govern. In your business it’s possible to find API in different maturity. For example, your can deliver API for external  as well as internal processes. Then, I believe that API HUB must be configured in your IT structure to deliver APIs.

The APIs of your business, can allow integrations with payment way, internet of things (IoT) and even blockchain consortia. Your cloud computing can be configured to expose APIs for your customers, thus, following best practices for security, scalability, availability, and fault tolerance. External gateways must be implemented.

"Prepare your team to be your partner in this evolution of digital transformation."

Write the requirements with your business team and assign to the product owner this initiative. Assemble your squad with experienced developers (back-end or full stack) who can design the APIs, coding and publish. Try to use the approval environment. Prepare your quality assurance analysts to create automated tests and connect them to your pipeline. Improve your DevOps pipeline. Check the APIs at the approval environment. Try to develop a good approval plan. Engage your quality assurance analysts so that you can define test scenarios that validate the operational flow and guarantee a stress test plan to measure the performance of the APIs. Analyze the appropriate sizing and implement your production environment to support the expected amount of transactions.

Why I have to do this? Let’s think about it.

Monolith systems are still a reality in companies and despite microservices modeling initiatives, investments to modernize platforms are not easy to negotiate. It is a challenge to plan the IT budget and bring return to the business, so the adoption of an API can be a way to boost your business for the digital transformation.

The digital transformation is an important topic in the CIO's meetings with the business teams and therefore knowing the strategies that can connect the businesses easily and quickly, with lower operational costs is the challenge.

Adopting technologies that can generate consistent and secure source code can help your squad build the project. Emerging technologies using generative AI can be connected to your source code management solution, making your developer agile in providing source codes quickly and with unit tests.

Try to use low code platform (or no code, if possible) because some flows can be implemented using RPA to accelerate decision making if you need to check-in or edit transacions.

I encourage you to study and propose an API project for your business. There's no reason not to build your own API HUB.

The technological evolution that we are experiencing allows the business areas to be agile with software solutions in perfect synchrony, integration and security.

Be ready!

Build your HUB API and get ahead of the competition.