A quick look at the way Rakuten meets the growing challenge of delivering new products and services quickly while maintaining a consistently high level of quality, security and performance.

1. Marcus Saw
Software Services Enablement Dept.
Rakuten, Inc.

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1. Challenges of development in a global organization
2. Architecture for success
3. Front-end SDK
4. Microservices
5. Questions

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Speed
&
Agility
Consistent Quality
Performance &
Security

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The Developer should be able to focus on solving the
project challenges. The platform and tools should take
care of the rest.

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ID
Location
AI
Image
ID
API
Gateway
Security
Monitoring
Performance

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Cordova Html5 Xamarin React Native Native iOS Android
More CodingLess Coding
“The Android robot is reproduced or modified from work created and shared by Google and used
according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.”

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More CodingNo Coding
“The Android robot is reproduced or modified from work created and shared by Google and used
according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.”

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SDK
- Authentication
- Points
- Payment
- Discover
- Others..
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“The Android robot is reproduced or modified from work created and shared by Google and used
according to terms described in the Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.”

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Developer DeployCode

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Developer DeployCodeOpen Source Code
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ID
Location
AI
Image
Developer DeployCodeOpen Source Code
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Microservices
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ID
Location
AI
Image
ID
Team A
Microservices
API
Gateway
Security
Monitoring
Performance
ID
Team B
Team C
AI
Location

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Discoverability
Security
Billing
Management
Support
ID
Location
AI
Image
ID

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Directory of services
Easily accessible through
developer tools (NPM,
Cocoapods, Maven, RubyGems
etc )
Discoverability
Use of KONG API Gateway.
Plugins for billing based on CPU
consumption, Processing time,
data quantity, flat rate etc.
Billing
Self-service portal for API
providers to manage access and
availability, API versioning, real-
time alerting and notifcations.
Management
Documentation portal, developer
community, support ticketing
system.
Support
Use of KONG API Gateway.
Plugins for authentication and
authorization.
Anti-fraud AI and rules engine.
Security

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