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About the North/South and East/West models for API traffic
How to maintain network reliability and resilience to provide a healthy and scalable infrastructure for your API platform
About security basics including API keys, authentication, authorization, and encryption
Options for diagnosing and automating your traffic management approach
Monitoring and managing API traffic can be a complicated undertaking. Most companies today need to deal with securing API traffic from outside their organizational boundaries as well as optimizing traffic between services running behind the company firewall. In this ebook, Mike Amundsen introduces developers and network administrators to the basic concepts and challenges of monitoring and managing API traffic.
In this ebook, you’ll learn approaches for observing and controlling external traffic (known as the North/South model) and for optimizing internal traffic (the East/West model). You’ll also examine the business value of good API traffic practice that connects your business goals and internal progress measurements to useful traffic monitoring, reporting, and analysis.
An internationally known author and lecturer, Mike Amundsen travels throughout the United States and Europe, consulting and speaking on a wide range of topics including distributed network architecture, web application development, and cloud computing.
