The Client
A US based Fortune 500 company, providing supplemental insurance to more than fifty million people worldwide, over a period of 6 decades.
Business Challenge
High latency experience by end-users caused by slow API calls. The data sources/applications were spread across public clouds and on-prem Datacentres. There was a requirement to create new business capabilities and products to match the competition. Current Architecture lacked Flexibility in the API placement – API’s were placed near their consumers; hence development of new business capability was limited to the current API setup. Reduce Cost- Existing API gateway solutions lacked hybrid capabilities, they had to be replaced with a cloud ready solution to achieve long term cloud strategy to reduce operational expenses and TCO. Improvements were required to enhance 3rd party and end-user experience, which entailed revamping of existing UI’s, introduction of innovative features, capabilities, and product, which in turn required a robust multi-cloud API platform. Apigee Hybrid Implementation
Our solution
Was to replace the existing AKANA solution with a hybrid implementation of Google Apigee platform. This allowed the client to integrate and scale their IT systems, to quickly respond to rapid business change and more importantly with controlled costs.
A 30-week project using an iterative (Agile) methodology to configure Apigee hybrid on AWS, Azure & On-Premise Datacentre. Define hardware & network requirements Define non-functional requirements Security Scalability Performance Maintainability Anthos cluster architecture design Apigee application deployment architecture AWS solution architecture Azure solution architecture vSphere solution architecture DR Design
Benefits Delivered to the Client
Improved latency, resulting in enhanced end-user experience for all applications Enabled implementation of Client Specific API strategies No vendor lock-in’s for cloud-based applications Product rollout time to market – Coforge implemented the hybrid platform using Client Proprietary Integration Architecture coupled with DevOps and CI/CD practice to reduce development time from 6 weeks to 5 days. Integration – Seamless integration of API’s across multi-cloud and on-premise DC.
Scalability – Using Kubernetes Infrastructure managed by Anthos allowed business services to be scaled at will.
Resilient/Flexible – The new hybrid platform is easy to enhance, allows independent testing and deployment of components and provides location transparency(Cloud or On-Premise) for the infrastructure . It was constructed in such a way that failure of one environment would not affect business continuity.
Enhanced Application Performance – Stackdriver enabled complete visibility into the application performance, real-time monitoring and proactive problem detection. Quality - Complete deployment automation. Key Features Apigee hybrid platform based on Anthos cluster provides the ability to deploy API’s across the datacenters (Cloud, On-premise) as per the requirements Apigee hybrid platform is based on GKE clusters, hence it provides auto-healing and auto-scaling on infra level and application level to cater peak demand scenarios Apigee platform provides key API management features like API life-cycle management, API security, throttling, Rate-limiting, API monitoring, API portals and more as out-of -the -box features. GKE provides infrastructure (Cloud, On-premise) transparent landing zones for application deployment (Apigee) Security and monitoring is done at Application level, Cluster level and hardware level, it comes as a part of Anthos capability
