Lombard Odier – API Ops

2024-Q4

Why

Lombard Odier's technical platform is composed of a large number of micro-services and therefore APIs. Providing visibility of public and internal APIs, as well as API design guidelines, API specification publishing, API integration and API mocking tools for development teams, is essential to implementing API-as-a-product culture and contract-first software development.

What

• To promote Product-driven API-culture and Contract-first API-design at Lombard Odier.
• To set up an enterprise web portal for the documentation of both public and internal APIs.
• To provide SDK generators to ease API integration.
• To provide mock servers to ease API try-it-out.
• To provide API design guidelines.

Requirements

• To develop a showcase that demonstrates the state of the art in API specification on the basis of a story telling.
• To collaborate with Lombard Odier's software development teams to help them mature in designing and publishing their APIs.

Challenges

• 30 development teams
• 60 products
• 200 APIs

Technologies

• Astro, Strapi, Markdown
• OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, GraphQL
• Microcks, Mockoon, Apollo
• OpenShift, Kubernetes

Organization

1 Solution Architect, 1 Software engineer (me), 1 Operation engineer.

Links

See Papers by Ludovic Pourrat (Solution Architect)

• API Ops - apidays London 2023
• API Ops - apidays London 2024