A few years ago, Brigham Young University (BYU) started a massive effort to replace the existing API management systems with a more modern, standard, and efficient solution. WSO2 products such as WSO2 API Manager and WSO2 Identity Server are at the core of this new solution. They expected to improve consumer experience and minimize the impact on existing development work. Along the way, they hit a few roadblocks including problems such as integrating with legacy systems, improving API discoverability changing authentication mechanisms, and re-designing API development and deployment processes. This session will explore how they overcame these roadblocks by using the WSO2 products will discuss how they Integrated new the API management solution with legacy systems via API mediation Standardized API documentation across the organization Improved API search and discoverability for consumers Made API consumption simple by following industry standards

1. Implementing a Modern API
Management Solution that Benefits
Producers and Consumers
Brayden Winterton
Software Engineer
Brigham Young University
@braydenw

2. Brigham Young University
• We are a City
• Varying Customers
• API First
• Legacy and New

3. Lets go back in time a couple of years

4. API Management Desires
• Centralized Repository
• Low Latency
• Low Impact
• Monitoring
• Centralized Documentation

5. The Problem
• Old, Unsupported Software
• Two versions in Production
• Non-Standard Authentication
• Rebooting boxes Nightly
• No monitoring
• Out of Date Documentation and Support

6. We need to fix this problem

7. New API Manager Criteria
• Utilize Industry Standards
• Integrate with Legacy Systems
• Low Impact to Current Work
• Keep Documentation Up to Date
• Improved API Discovery
• Monitoring
• Performant

8. The Solution

11. Why WSO2?

12. Subscriptions and Monitoring

13. Message Mediation

14. High Performance

15. Open Source

16. Standards

18. What do standards give us?

20. New API Manager Criteria
• Utilize Industry Standards
• Integrate with Legacy Systems
• Low Impact to Current Work
• Keep Documentation Up to Date
• Improved API Discovery
• Monitoring
• Performant

21. How can we improve discovery?

23. BYU Dev Portal + Swagger

26. How has it worked?

27. github.com/byu-oit-appdev
developer.byu.ed
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28. Thank You!