CA Technologies today announced new solutions and capabilities within its API Management portfolio to help developers, enterprise architects and digital leaders create and deploy microservices and
manage the APIs that connect and orchestrate microservices to build
modern application architectures. The latest innovations include:
- Expanded capabilities of CA Live API Creator to quickly, effectively and independently create, deploy and run microservices.
- Docker
container deployment options across many products within the API
Management portfolio for end-to-end support in microservices
architectures.
- Expanded
API Management portfolio integrations to address management, security
and advanced monitoring of APIs for modern architectures in any
enterprise or cloud environment.
"Successful
digital businesses require a modern application architecture to
accelerate development, open new business opportunities and innovate
faster," said Rahim Bhatia, general manager, CA Technologies Developer
Products. "CA provides one of the broadest portfolio of microservices
and API management solutions - from design and development to deployment
and management - supporting application agility and scale for
competitive advantage."
New Capabilities for Microservices Creation and Management
The
ability to create and manage microservices deployed using
container-based technology is required in today's modern application
architecture. CA supports Docker container-based deployment of CA Live API Creator and CA API Gateway for
microservices creation, security and management. CA also has expanded
its powerful, yet easy point-and-click solution, CA Live API Creator, to
quickly produce comprehensive microservices incorporating data, logic
and robust APIs. In addition, the new CA Microgateway, currently
available in beta, helps enforce local policies for microservices, such
as service discovery, routing, last mile security and rate limiting.
Beachbody,
a leading provider of fitness, nutrition and weight-loss programs, used
CA's products and services to help transform its IT architecture. "We
recently went through a three-year project to modernize a wide range of
infrastructure and applications to give us the agility to meet rapidly
changing market conditions," said Michael Lee, Technology vice president
at Beachbody. "We chose a cloud-first and API-driven approach to
continue leveraging existing business critical systems while developing
the architecture to quickly create modern applications using
microservices."
Expanded Full Lifecycle API Management Capabilities Support Modern Application Architectures
CA's
newly architected CA API Developer Portal gives organizations the
flexibility to manage APIs wherever and however they want - on-premises,
hybrid or cloud - with the ability to switch among them seamlessly. The
containerized, API-first architecture eases deployment and migration to
the cloud, and simplifies management, policy configuration and
integration with existing analytics and content management system
investments.
New
capabilities and integration between CA Mobile API Gateway and CA
Advanced Authentication accelerate the development of mobile security
while delivering risk-based security from the mobile app to the API. A
new, unified mobile SDK helps developers easily integrate authentication
requirements while maintaining a streamlined experience for end users.
In addition, CA APM integration with CA API Management provides
visibility into API and app performance metrics with transaction tracing
for precise triangulation and resolution of performance issues.
"Agility
and time-to-market for new and compelling apps are essential to compete
in the market. CA API Management has demonstrated it can help take
ideas and turn them into viable solutions quickly," said Joe Farrell,
Chief Product Officer and co-founder of BiTE Interactive, a mobile
product studio. "For example, working with CA API Management we were
able to complete the single sign-on feature for an app in just one
sprint. When we built this feature without CA API Management for a large
financial client, it required four sprints."