Federated API Management for Enterprise Agility | WSO2Con Barcelona 2025
AI Summary
Federated API Management: Overview
- Introduction
- Speaker: Sanjay Malagura, Product Manager for API Manager Software.
- Topic: Federated API management for enterprise agility.
- Growth of API and Need for Management
- Rapid API growth from 1960s to present, influenced by digital transformation, microservices, and AI.
- Emergence of API management solutions around 2010.
- Centralized vs. Decentralized API Management
- Centralized API Management:
- Single control plane managing all APIs.
- Advantages: Full control, easy compliance, efficient troubleshooting.
- Disadvantages: Can slow down innovation, bottlenecks in API onboarding.
- Decentralized API Management:
- Independent control planes for each business unit.
- Advantages: High agility, flexibility in technology choices, faster innovation.
- Disadvantages: Security risks due to inconsistent policies, visibility issues, duplicate efforts.
- Federated API Management
- Hybrid model combining centralized governance with decentralized execution.
- Benefits: Balances flexibility and governance, improves API visibility, supports multi-cloud strategies.
- Key components for implementation include shared API catalog, automation of compliance, and security policies.
- Essential to define governance upfront to avoid inconsistencies and operational challenges.
- Considerations for Adoption
- Not suitable for all organizations; careful analysis of requirements and technology strategies is necessary.
- Long-term sustainability and governance should be prioritized even with potential complexities in setup.
- Conclusion
- Need for proper governance before implementing federated API management.
- Organizations should evaluate their specific needs when considering API management strategies.