AWS API Framework Overview
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An API is a specification that allows software components to communicate with each other. APIs can be classified based on the abstraction they describe, such as operating systems, programming languages, applications, and infrastructure services. REST architecture uses nouns and verbs for readability and less bandwidth than SOAP. When building APIs on AWS, developers can use services like Elastic Beanstalk for deployment, CloudWatch for monitoring, and IAM for security. It is important to focus on security at all stages of developing and deploying APIs.
AWS API Framework Overview
- 1. AWS API Framework Overview 19 November 2015 Presenters: Wyn Ackroyd - Co-Founder and Chief Executive at API Talent Sebastian Krueger - Co-Founder and Technical Director at API Talent
- 3. Agenda • General API Overview • Building APIs on Amazon Web Services
- 4. What is an API? An Application Programming Interface (API) is a specification intended to be used as an interface by software components to communicate with each other. An API may include specifications for routines, data structures, object classes, and variables. Source: Wikipedia
- 5. Even your bottle has an API!
- 6. But…What do these APIs actually look like? APIs can be classified in several categories depending what abstraction is being described. API Category Example Timeline Operating System API for MS Windows API for Apple Mac OS X (Cocoa) 1985- 2001- Programming Languages Java API 1995- Application Services API for SAP (BAPI) 1990s- Infrastructure Services Amazon Web Services API 2002- Web Services Twitter API 2006-
- 7. REST architecture for APIs REST language uses nouns and verbs, and has an emphasis on readability. It uses less bandwidth than other languages such as SOAP for instance. It is also the language of the web. • GET – Access a resource • PUT – Update a resource • POST – Create a resource • DELETE – Delete a resource
- 8. API Builders’ Shopping List • Language: Java 8 • Application Server: Apache Tomcat 8 • Libraries: • Jersey for REST • Jackson for JSON • Guice for Dependency Injection • Dependency Management: Maven • Code Repository: BitBucket/Github • CI/CD: Jenkins/CloudBees/Codeship
- 9. API Runtime in Amazon Web Services AWS Runtime Platform: Elastic Beanstalk
- 10. Elastic Beanstalk in a Nutshell • EC2 Server • + Linux • + OpenJDK • + Tomcat • Scaling Elastic Load Balancer / Auto Scaling • Deploy artefacts on S3 • Can add database (RDS)
- 11. Monitoring – Amazon Cloud Watch
- 12. Logging – Amazon Cloud Watch Logs
- 13. Security Tip: AWS Account Access
- 14. Security Security Security • IAM Account Federation • Multi AWS Account Structure • Security at REST • Security in TRANSIT • Network Access to Backend / Off-Cloud Services • Network Access to Developer/Application User Workstations • etc etc etc
- 15. Q & A
Editor's Notes
- #8: REST architecture for APIs eases resource manipulation. Users can manipulate data through a REST API using 4 action verbs and a URI. REST is also the language of the web. When you loaded the user group survey in your browser you did a GET. When you submitted the user group survey, the browser did a POST.