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2019-07-23T07:55:11Z
Jul 23, 2019
In my opinion and experience, I believe that the most complete and customizable Developer Portal are those of IBM (API Connect) and Google (APIGEE), since both are based on CMS Drupal, with all the advantages that this entails.
I found TIBCO Mashery had the best Developer portal. Mashery helped create the API Management category almost over 10 years ago as a SaaS vendor focusing on enabling the developers. try api.bestbuy or api.macy's i think both are good developer portal examples of mashery. OpenAPI/Swagger is just the start with Innovation around Flogo and Mashling facilatating evented APIs built on composable microservices.
The DevPortal provides you an flexible and complete interface to expose to the world everything about the APIs that you want to show, the OpenAPI definition, a very useful tool to test the API, but the huge challenge is about the customization process, because even when it is possible to change things, IBM doesn't provides you documentation, workflows to achive this capabilyties, and the isolation about catalogs, products, APIs it is something abstract and sometimes frustating.
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Hello community,
I work for a large governmental organization.
We are building up SDDC using VCF now and considering an API management tool to provide API service to clients. What is the best API management tool for our case?
Thank you for your help.
Hi Zuojun,
The Broadcom Layer 7 API platform is a robust and highly technical solution that gives you several options for building out APIs and can sit well with the portal. I have set the gateway up using Helm charts into Kubernetes (Plain, EKS, and AKS) as well as OCP. All are fairly easy to implement with their new approach to deployment that they have developed recently.
Derek
Most of the API solutions now run in containers (Kubernetes) like the one described by Derek but if you want to avoid the burden of having a container supervisor on top of a VM supervisor my recommendation is that you look for a solution that runs plain on VMWare. One option is IBM API Connect. It includes:
1. API Manager which provides a user interface that facilitates the promotion and tracking of APIs
2. API Gateway which enforces runtime policies to secure and control API traffic, provides the endpoints that expose APIs to the calling applications, and provides assembly functions that enable APIs to integrate with various endpoints
3. Developer portal which provides a customizable self-service web-based portal to application developers to explore, discover, and subscribe to APIs.
4. Analytics server
All of them as VMware images.
Regards
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sharing their opinions. Updated: February 2023.
In my opinion and experience, I believe that the most complete and customizable Developer Portal are those of IBM (API Connect) and Google (APIGEE), since both are based on CMS Drupal, with all the advantages that this entails.
Have a look at Ceptor API Developer portal (https://ceptor.io/api-management/developer-portal/) a relatively new product on the market.
I found TIBCO Mashery had the best Developer portal. Mashery helped create the API Management category almost over 10 years ago as a SaaS vendor focusing on enabling the developers. try api.bestbuy or api.macy's i think both are good developer portal examples of mashery. OpenAPI/Swagger is just the start with Innovation around Flogo and Mashling facilatating evented APIs built on composable microservices.
The DevPortal provides you an flexible and complete interface to expose to the world everything about the APIs that you want to show, the OpenAPI definition, a very useful tool to test the API, but the huge challenge is about the customization process, because even when it is possible to change things, IBM doesn't provides you documentation, workflows to achive this capabilyties, and the isolation about catalogs, products, APIs it is something abstract and sometimes frustating.