API management software helps in API designing, deployment, and maintenance.
The
prominent features that almost every API management tool provide include documentation,
security, sandbox environment, backward compatibility, high availability, etc. API
management platforms also provide usage reporting.
Some API management platforms provide developer portal where the developers can obtain
or share the APIs which will be useful to build some applications.
Apigee is a platform for developing and managing APIs. By fronting services with a proxy
layer, Apigee provides an abstraction or facade for your backend service APIs and
provides security, rate limiting, quotas, analytics, and more.
Apigee
Services: The
APIs that you use to create, manage, and deploy your API proxies.
Apigee runtime: A set of containerized runtime services in a
Kubernetes cluster that
Google maintains. All API traffic passes through and is processed by these services.
GCP services: Provides identity management, logging, analytics,
metrics, and project management functions.
Back-end services: Used by your apps to provide runtime access
to data for your API proxies.
Apigee Integration extends the Apigee API Management platform to include core
integration features—connectors, an integration engine, and data transformation
tools.
Apigee Integration offers business organizations of all sizes the tools
needed to connect and manage the multitude of software applications required to
support business operations in a digital world.
The Cloud Healthcare API provides a managed solution for storing and accessing healthcare data in Google Cloud, providing a critical bridge between existing care systems and applications hosted on Google Cloud.
AppSheet is an application that provides a no-code development platform for
application software, which allows users to create mobile, tablet, and web
applications using data sources like Google Drive, DropBox, Office 365, and
other cloud-based spreadsheet and database platforms.
The platform can be
utilized for a broad set of business use cases including project management,
customer relationship management, field inspections, and personalized reporting.
An API gateway is an API management tool that sits between a client and a
collection of backend services.
An API gateway acts as a reverse proxy to
accept
all application programming interface (API) calls, aggregate the various
services required to fulfill them, and return the appropriate result.
Fully managed gateway Take advantage of all the operational
benefits of serverless technology, such as flexible deployment and scalability.
API Gateway manages APIs for Cloud Functions, Cloud Run, and App Engine.
Reduced complexity Whether you’re using your APIs internally or
giving access to other developers, API Gateway offers consistency and ease of
use to developers and consumers alike.
Security and
visibility API Gateway’s built-in mechanisms, including
authentication and key validation, help protect services published online. Gain
visibility into your APIs through monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing
services.