API Lifecycle Management
Developing applications and API in MuleSoft environment is supported by Anypoint Studio based on eclipse.
Anypoint Studio provides for easy integration with Java, Spring and Maven.
API Governance
MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform helps us to govern the full API lifecycle within one platform. Some of Anypoint Platform’s governing capabilities include the following.
- Manage APIs from creation to retirement with the simplicity of a unified product.
- Generate API proxies automatically or deploy gateways
- Set custom or prebuilt policies, and change them at runtime without downtime
- Customize access with tiered SLAs and external Identity Providers
API Monitoring
MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform helps us to monitor and troubleshoot deployments more efficiently. Some of Anypoint Platform’s monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities include the following.
- Get a complete view of your APIs and integrations to meet performance and uptime requirements.
- Detect issues proactively with real-time alerts
- Diagnose the root cause by correlating warning signs
- Surface hidden dependencies within deployments to limit outage impact
API Analytics
MuleSoft’s Anypoint Platform helps us to analyze metrics across all your deployments. Some of Anypoint Platform’s analytic capabilities include the following.
- Uncover deeper insights to support your business.
- Translate IT metrics into business KPIs with customized dashboards
- Improve API engagement with detailed consumer metrics
- Capture trends through detailed, visual reports
Conclusion
A well-designed and built service APIs will last a long time and need to continue to run healthy and happy even when API consumer apps change or when brand new not-yet-imagined consumer apps are created. To do that, focus on the key capabilities of your APIs (onboarding-customers, tracking-shipments, managing-feedback, etc.) and allow implementation details like URLs and object models to be more fluid and less brittle over time.
