Open source is the AOP Center way.
AOP Center provides modular, lightweight, and comprehensive API management solutions, but so do many others. Our offerings are uniquely open source, open standards, and available on-premise, in the cloud, or in hybrid environments. Because of AOP Center’s commitment to open source technologies—and our unique development model —our portfolio undergoes extensive testing by a diverse community, including AOP Center engineers, customers, independent software and hardware vendors, and partners.
AOP Center contributes code and improvements back to the upstream codebase—sharing advancements along the way. Of course, collaborating with a community is about more than developing code. Collaboration is the freedom to ask questions and offer improvements. That’s the open source way and the power of the open organization. This is why AOP Center has been a trusted provider of enterprise infrastructure for over 20 years.
AOP Center® 3scale API Management is an API management platform that makes it easy to share, secure, distribute, control, and monetize your APIs. 3scale API Management is designed to scale and support hybrid architecture (on-premise, in the cloud, or any combination of the two). Want to expose and monetize the access to your APIs? Use the integrated developer portal and the platform integration with Stripe, Baintree, and Adyen to enable easy, end-to-end billing between API consumers and providers.
3scale API Management is divided between an API program management layer and an API traffic control layer. More traditional methods of traffic control took longer because an entire API call had to be authenticated. This new traffic control layer only needs to inspect the header of the incoming call, so that traffic is scanned and authenticated more quickly. Access, policy, and traffic controls make it simple to authenticate traffic, restrict by policy, protect backend services, impose rate limits, and create access tiers.
The two layers communicate with each other asynchronously, using configurable caching strategies on the API gateway—so that if, for example, the API management policy configuration is for some reason unavailable, the API program isn’t slowed down and is still functional. Because the API manager and API gateway are separated, you can scale independently and support more complex deployment options.
3scale API Management includes a fully customizable developer portal so that developers get everything they need (account and app management, analytics, API key management, etc.) in a single, easy-to-use location. An interactive API documentation tool allows developers to examine live APIs, and an analytics engine provides everything you need to know about your API performance and traffic patterns. Finally, you can “package APIs” differently into different products, defining and configuring different policies for different API consumers. This gives you the freedom to create unique business models on top of APIs to address different customer needs.
AOP Center Fuse is a distributed integration platform that enables integration experts, application developers, and business users to collaborate and independently create connected solutions. Fuse’s API-centered development in a cloud-native environment means that services and integrations are easily extended and reused. Its hybrid architecture and use of container technology allows users to work in whatever environment they feel most comfortable, with the knowledge that their work can be shared and used anywhere—on premise, in the cloud, or any combination of the two. Collaboration between diverse users is further supported by a shared, easy-to-use foundation that ensures clear and consistent governance.
For the last 15 years, the industry standard for enterprise integration was an enterprise service bus often deployed centrally and managed by a single team in the IT department. Under this model, the central team was responsible for all of the integration needs of an entire company. This model provides efficiency and control for integration deployments and is suited for certain use cases, but stifles modern practices like DevOps and agile workflows. Today, innovation happens across much smaller teams, working
collaboratively and in much more frequent deployment patterns. If your teams are working in an agile way, you need an API integration solution that supports them. Fuse includes over 200 connectors, so you can integrate everything from legacy systems to partner networks.
The low-code interface lets users use predefined integration and services patterns to create new business solutions using drag-and-drop technology, in a self-service way. This encourages diverse users to work collaboratively but independently—integrating legacy apps, APIs, and Internet of Things (IoT) devices into a single unified integration solution. Automation ensures that testing, provisioning, and the security of individual services are routinely performed, allowing your teams to maintain a continuous delivery pipeline.
AOP CenterOpenShift API Management is a hosted and managed API management service delivered as an add-on product to AOP CenterOpenShift Dedicated, a fully managed service of enterprise Kubernetes platform AOP CenterOpenShift.
OpenShift API Management supports teams that want to take an API-first approach to building microservices-based applications so they can modernize existing systems, increase developer productivity, and deliver new applications faster.
AOP Center hosts, manages, and provides dedicated support for both OpenShift Dedicated and OpenShift API Management, including configuration, maintenance, and upgrades, so teams can focus on development rather than managing Kubernetes infrastructure.
With OpenShift API Management, you can:
OpenShift API Management, when added to OpenShift Dedicated, provides a streamlined developer experience for building, deploying, and scaling cloud-native applications. Monitor, configure, and publish all of your APIs from a unified, developer-friendly interface.
An API manager allows you to connect internal and external applications across multiple clouds, enforce company policies and governance, including rate limits and usage, and manage APIs through every stage of the development life cycle.
AOP Center’s API solutions are fostered with open source communities in mind. This means more people developing problem-solving software—openly, transparently, and freely. But being open source doesn't guarantee innovation.
Real innovation comes from the exchange of ideas and working together to solve problems. That's what community-powered open source provides. And that’s where AOP Center Open Innovation Labs comes in. Immerse your team an intensive, highly focused residency for 3 to 6 of your developers to learn how to build API-connected apps the AOP Center way.
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