Building Mocks with Apigee and Node.js !Saulius Zukauskas – Apigee Principal Architect

Who am I?

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Technical Architect - Apigee Professional Services •  Designing and building API platforms. •  Open source and sharing experience is good!

What we are going to talk about?

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Misbehaving backend systems

Your new API project…

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•  You are asked to develop a new API •  Its great, all front end teams are waiting! •  You use Apigee, so it will be quick & easy

Your new API project…

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Apigee

New API

Your new API project…

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Apigee

New API Backend Monster

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What are these Backend Monsters?

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While you are developing APIs…

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Why backend systems misbehave?

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• Still under development • No capacity • Network connections in dev or test • No consistent data in dev or test

Solution

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We can mock backend systems! Solution?

Solution – use backend mocks

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Apigee

New API Backend Monster

amock  

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•  Hardcode XML policies •  Use Swagger & a127 •  Use Node.js

How do you build backend mocks in Apigee?

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You can run Node.js apps in Apigee!

+ = FRIENDS

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We have open sourced a framework

amock framework

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What is amock framework?

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• Apigee ready mock API • Based on Node.js • Serves mock responses from files

• Open source

Demo

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Demo time!

Why use amock?

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•  Deploy to Apigee and forget

•  Copy & Paste 1000s of mock responses

•  Open source!

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Download & try yourself! github.com/sauliuz/amock

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