1. API Factory :
7 pillars for API as Manufactured product
Patrick Brosse
Head of API Design
Amadeus IT Group

2. fromFirstAPItoAPIdesignfirst
Amadeusvision

3. GET / api / factory ?
from = “Prototype” &
to = “Industrialization” &
via = “Componentization”
Patrick Brosse
Head of API Design & Data Model
Amadeus IT Group

4. Build an elegant,
future-proof API in
minimum time
Challenge Safe Travel API
Elegant
Complex functionality, simple to use
Future-proof
Update without affecting original design.
Minimum time
Urgency due to pandemic.

5. Designfirst
Manufactured Industry
GET / api /specification
200 OK
{
from: “Business”
to: “Functionality”
via: “Methodology”
}

6. Usability
Manufactured Industry
GET / api / portals
200 OK
{
- Documentation
- tutorial
- SDK
- Support
}

7. Automation
Manufactured Industry
GET / api / standard
200 OK
{
- quality
- security
}

8. Community
Manufactured Industry
GET / api / prototyping
200 OK
{
- Agile Methodology
- Process
- Organization
-
}

9. Traceability
Manufactured Industry
GET / api / hateoas
{
from: domain-relationship
to : links
via: Domain Driven Design
}

10. Identification
Manufactured Industry
GET / api / uri
{
from: Service centric
to : Data centric
via:
REST Uniform Interface
}

11. Components
Manufactured Industry
POST / api / reusabilty
200 OK
{
from: “Business”
to: “API Contract”
via: “Data Model”
}

12. Take inspiration forindustrialization
Open API Platform : Create a Factory of Components

13. Take inspiration forindustrialization
Construction plan

14. Take inspiration forindustrialization
Factory of Components

15. As-a-product
Manufactured Industry
GET / api / as-a-product
200 OK
{
from: “Software”
to: “Api contract”
via: “Data model”
}

16. Thank you!
developers.amadeus.com
pbrosse@amadeus.com
References
Article: Data as a Product: What We Can Learn from More Established Industries
Jeremy Posner
Podcast : Docs-as-Code for better collaboration at Amadeus for Developers
Anna Tsolakou and Mathieu Pincovai