Basu Sugeerappa, Fidelity Investments, Director, API Center of Excellence
As our firm started modernization of API (Rest, Cloud, Gateway) it was evident that program needed to be accelerated rather than taking one API at a time. Team enthusiastic tech geeks defined standard technology, tools, process, development, and deployment procedure. Best thing is it is all automated and friendly UI where even non-technologist can develop API without knowing java or CICD. Our organization is contract first approach. Created various financial business need based swagger templates to jump start contract creation process, it goes through rigor governance committee review to avoid redundancy and to ensure new contract meets defined standards. After governance approval we use proprietary framework generates java code for Authentication, Authorization, Monitoring, logging, IO, Database, Caching etc.. It creates required configuration files and all deployable. Using generated java code, API goes through successful build procedure, and it auto deploys API runnable to cloud environment and the swagger proxy to envoy-based gateway. All these activities are completed less than 30 min from API contract to deployment which helps various development teams and business in focusing on business logic than infrastructure. Through this process we're able to decrease the time to market, bring consistent development practices and of course save money and bring operational efficiencies across the heterogeneous technologies and teams. Behind the scenes we use regular SDLC Swaggerhub, Github, Java Springboot, Jenkins, uDeploy, Venafi, GSLB, Azure and Envoy. Advantage is person who is developing API don't need to know how to do but they just focus on what business wants.
