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 LO.
- To set up an enterprise web portal for the documentation of API standards, public and internal APIs at LO.
- To provide SDK generators to ease API integration into business services.
- To provide mock servers to ease API try-it-out.
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 LO'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)