In the previous nine chapters of this book, you have undertaken a journey covering everything from designing APIs, to implementing, securing, and operating them.
The focus has been on architecture, but just as important is how you apply architecture within your organization.
In this final chapter of the book, you will explore emerging API technologies that may play a bigger role in the future and learn how we keep up-to-date with these changing best practices, tools, and platforms.
Case Study: A Look Back on Your Journey
Throughout the book, we have been making evolutionary steps to update and mature the conference system architecture use case that we began with.
You can see the starting point in Figure 10-1.
Figure 10-1. Original conference system architecture
Let’s look at some of the decisions taken in extracting the Attendee service.
As shown in Figure 10-2, and discussed in the Introduction, we made the decision (based on requirements from the conference system stakeholders) to extract the attendees, functionality into an API-based service that would be run as a standalone process external from the legacy conference system.
Figure 10-2. Extracting the Attendee service from the conference system
In Chapters 1 and
2, the architecture remained static while ...
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