Learn more about API management at http://ibm.biz/guide-to-api-mgmt
Watch the lightboard video "Why API Management/" https://youtu.be/DBZTNzrZC3E
Watch the lightboard video "Scaling Without an API Gateway/" https://youtu.be/OAdOa31EH4o
View IBM API Connect https://www.ibm.com/products/api-connect
View IBM DataPower Gateway https://www.ibm.com/products/datapower-gateway

The proliferation of online services has led to the development of increasingly complex web applications that use a microservices-based system that can consist of dozens or even hundreds of individual services that communicate with each other via APIs.

So how do you manage this increase in API traffic if you plan to scale your app and add more functionality?

In this lightboard video, IBM's Jason Goode shows how implementing an API Gateway solution can help you better manage complex application communications by using an example of an e-commerce store that is driving a huge increase in web traffic.

Chapters
0:00 – Introduction to APIs
0:24 – Monolith to microservices
0:41 – Direct communication between client and microservice
1:17 – Example of eCommerce Storefront
2:17 – Product detail UI features
3:14 – Implementing an API Gateway architecture
3:47 – Customer performance
5:14 – Adding additional layers of security
5:51 – Protocol translation
7:06 – Offloading common functionality
8:06 – Example of traffic spike on Black Friday
8:21 – Implementing a Backends for Frontends (BFF) architecture
9:36 – Summary

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