Apigee is an API management and predictive analytics software tool developed by Sonoa Corporations as Sonoa systems in 2004. Now Apigee is maintained by Google Corporations to help them in building cloud-based interfaces. This Apigee helps companies to secure, design, and scale their application programming interfaces. This platform uses the proxy layer and edge to abstract the protocol and also helps for your backend services APIs. Apigee Platform offers security, rate limiting, data quotas, and analytics.
The API Gateway will often handle a request by invoking multiple microservices and aggregating the results. It can translate between web protocols such as HTTP and WebSocket and web‑unfriendly protocols that are used internally.
An API Gateway is a core feature of your API management platform, although it isn’t the only feature. Key features of an API Gateway includes: ability to provide enterprise-grade security such as spike arrest, quota, and analytics.
An API platform is an organization which brings together two or more distinct, but interdependent, groups of consumers using APIs. This creates a foundation for automated transactions between different networks. The platform unlocks hidden value within the organization by exposing its core as an API.
With a few clicks in the AWS Management Console, we can create an AWS API gateway that acts as a “front door” for applications to access data, business logic, or functionality from your back-end services, such as workloads running on Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), code running on AWS Lambda, or any Web application.
Use Azure API Management as a turnkey solution for publishing APIs to external and internal customers. Quickly create consistent and modern API gateways for existing back-end services hosted anywhere, secure and protect them from abuse and overuse, and get insights into usage and health.
Design: Build and design APIs that are intuitive for developers to use and create.
Security: Leverage the inherently secure nature of APIs to expose data to partners securely.
Analytics: Derive actionable business insights through dashboards, visualization tools, and reports.
Access: Supports various architectures used by the enterprise, on-premises in a private or public cloud or as a hybrid approach.
With the use of API Baas, a company or an organization can actually set up a cloud-based data platform in no time. Also, provides a platform where there is no need for server-side coding or any sort of back-end development needed. It actually helps the teams to focus on productivity and also helps them to visualize and build awesome features that aid in user experience and ultimately helps the organizations to build good products and services.
API Baas is one of the components of the Apigee Edge platform.
Companies interact with their customers and partners via apps and services. These apps generate a large volume of data, which is not always in the control of the enterprise. However, enterprises need to derive actionable intelligence from this data, to make informed business decisions.
Today’s data is designed for efficiency of consumption rather than efficiency of storage, and are better served by API-based integration. Using APIs for enterprise data integration, organizations can get direct visibility into how their data is consumed.
Apigee Edge is the flagship API management product in Apigee’s intelligent API platform. Through its enterprise data integration capabilities, you can optimize data from the backend systems to customer-facing apps.
| Apigee | API Gateway |
| API platform that is intelligent and comprehensive. | Build, deploy, manage, analyze, and secure APIs at any scale. |
| API that is very scalable and safe. | Integration with AWS. |
| Several API Endpoints including all methods are available through a single proxy. | Each action method must be configured independently for each endpoint. |
| Provide complete API development lifecycle management. | Has fewer capabilities. |
| Nothing has to be configured. | Each query or route parameter must be configured. |
API proxies decouple the app-facing API from your backend services, shielding those apps from backend code changes. As you make backend changes to your services, apps continue to call the same API without any interruption.
The AssignMessage policy changes or creates new request and response messages during the API proxy Flow. The policy lets you perform the following actions on those messages: Add new form parameters, headers, or query parameters to a message. Copy existing properties from one message to another.
Apigee Edge consists of API runtime, monitoring and analytics, and developer services that together provide a comprehensive infrastructure for API creation, security, management, and operations.
A REST API is an API that conforms to the design principles of the REST, or representational state transfer architectural style. For this reason, REST APIs are sometimes referred to RESTful APIs.
Apigee Sense is an innovative API security product that helps customers protect their APIs from adaptive threats like bad bots and automates threat protection at the API layer for OWASP Top 10 threats. Apigee analyzes billions of API calls, detects threat patterns, and ensures protection with measures like blocking and throttling.
Apigee is an API creation and administration tool that acts as a proxy layer for your core function APIs. Swagger is one of the most popular and extensively used open-source frameworks for designing, building, developing, and consuming REST APIs.
Synchronous Cells
It means that your application will respond only when there is a response back from the API call that was previously made. Until an, unless there is a response back from API call the system or the application will not function further. The use of this API call is beneficial if you need any user specific decisions are pending. This will help the users to take appropriate decisions and based on the need the system will execute further and serve. It is also considered as a performance lag because always it has to wait for the response from the API call and based on the response the application will react. This is the reason why they call this method as performance lag.
Asynchronous Cells
It doesn’t have any performance lag because the applications work continuously and it doesn’t have to stop for any specific response to be received from the API calls.
The Usergrid is also the same type of service that the API Baas platform provides. It is nothing but an open-source project which enables the user to utilize its highly scalable backend as a service platform. These types of services are mainly used on mobile platforms.
WS-Security or Web Services Security explains how security measures can be implemented in web services to protect them from any external attacks. WS-Security is a set of protocols that make sure security for SOAP-based messages by the implementation of the principles of security, integrity, and authentication.
Web services can be made stateful by implementing session management techniques like:
It includes four parts: