How do you deal with global consumption of your APIs? You need to understand the lesson of the Black Swan and apply the following rules for resilience: deliver locally, serve elastically, and specialize universally.

1. Globalization,Black Swans,and APIs Delivering APIs to a global audience #gluecon #apinext Sam Ramji, @sramji VP Strategy Apigee

2. There are more APIs than ever before

3. Data from Programmable Web

4. But that only tells part of the story

5. API traffic is up 20x from last year

6. Growth of Netflix API

7. Adoption is faster than with previous waves

9. And it’s going to go higher

10. WimElfrinks Chief Globalization Officer Cisco

11. With tons of different connected devices

12. Visualization by Apigee

13. So API Virtualization is even more relevant than a year ago

14. But the biggest change is that APIs have gone global

15. GLOBALIZATION

16. Globalization itself is not new

18. But it is more important than ever to APIs

20. This is about business and technology

21. Technology is about global reach

22. Business is about local delivery

23. And while the opportunity is global

25. The restrictions are local

27. And with Black Swans.

28. BLACKSWANS

29. Black Swans are catastrophic events

30. Black Swans are catastrophic events frequently predictable in hindsight

32. “ What we call here a Black Swan … is an event with the following three attributes. First, it is an outlier, as it lies outside the realm of regular expectations, because nothing in the past can convincingly point to its possibility. Second, it carries an extreme impact. Third, in spite of its outlier status, human nature makes us concoct explanations for its occurrence after the fact, making it explainable and predictable. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

33. A strong correlation exists between Black Swans and “fat tail” distributions

35. Avoid the purple curve.

36. GLOBALIZING APIS

37. Three rules for globalizing APIs and hiding from the Black Swan

38. Distribute Locally Serve Elastically Specialize Universally

39. distribute locally Cash is king

40. distribute locally Cache is king

41. Vertical Caching

42. Horizontal Caching

43. Two-Dimensional Caching

44. distribute locally Structure your API for cacheability Offload OAuth and traffic processing Your API is the control plane for your CDN

45. serve elastically Mobile plus global equals spikes of insanity

46. serve elastically Sometimes this is called catastrophic success

47. serve elastically Anycasting Cloudscaling Geographic redundancy

48. specialize universally One size fits none

49. specialize universally Security protocol and version Audit and regulation compliance Device format and bandwidth

50. Distribute Locally Serve Elastically Specialize Universally

51. Following this guidance will drastically improve your operational resilience

53. And help you hide from the Black Swan

55. While scaling your business globally

56. IN CONCLUSION

57. Taleb offers 10 rules for a Black Swan-resilient society.

58. Rule number 6 is

59. “ Don’t give children sticks of dynamite, even if they come with a warning label. Nassim Nicholas Taleb

60. APIs have arrived on a global scale and they are dynamite.

61. APIs can dematerialize obstacles to your business

63. APIs can destroy your infrastructure

65. But you are not children and you have seen the warning label

66. Be forewarned and forearmed

67. Distribute locally, serve elastically, and specialize universally

68. THANK YOU Questions and ideas to: @sramji @apigee