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Tutorial Series: Accelerate delivery of API & Microservices with API Assembly

Prerequisites

• API Connect Toolkit 5071 with DataPower
• curl
• Git (optional)

Series Overview

I have too often falled into a trap thinking that a visual-style development tool will accelerate development of my project. At first, the idea looks promising with a fancy prototype and generated code, but as you need to tweak your code, you often run into issues and solving it turns into a 'stack-overflow / googling' exercise.

The right balance needs to be available - you need productive visual tools that solve the common problem and at the same time provide the flexibility to drop-down and write code when needed. Enter the API Connect assembly editor, which provides a visual policy flow experience with built-in programming constructs to help accelerate delivery of API and microservice implementations. This tool is not here to write your service implementation, but act as a 'gateway' to enforce API and microservice security policies, apply rate limits and perform payload / header manipulation before proxying to the service backend.

In this tutorial series, you will learn how to build a first-class API definition to secure and rate-limit service backends.

The first tutorial is mandatory for setting your environment. All other tutorials can be done individually or you can follow them in sequence.

1. Getting Started with the API Connect Developer Toolkit
2. Build conditional flows for dynamic API execution
3. Write JavaScript to enrich API payloads
4. Handling API Errors
5. Protect access to API services with Auth0 & JWT
6. Protect access to APIs using OAuth
7. Manage digital applications with OAuth lifecycle management
8. Enforce API access with Third-party OAuth providers
9. Protect APIs with OAuth using external authentication service
10. Restrict access to critical resources with OAuth scope check
11. Protect access to Open Banking APIs using OpenID Connect
12. Enforcing Rate Limits for APIs