I’m going further down the AWS rabbit hole lately with my APIs. Historically my APIs ran on an AWS EC2 instance with leveraged Linux for the OS, Apache for the web server, and Slim for the RESTful framework of my APIs–all with an RDS MySQL backend. I’ve now evolved the EC2 instance to be spread across numerous AWS Lambda scripts, tied together into various stacks of APIs using AWS API Gateway. At first, I was hesitant to go further down the AWS rabbit hole, but the security benefits of AWS-driven solutions, as well as the API-driven aspects of operating my APIs, is slowly shifting my view of how I need to be managing my APIs.
AWS RDS, Lambda, and API Gateway all have APIs. I’ve been spending the week developing Lambda scripts that help me manage my APIs, using the AWS APIs behind these three services, leveraging them to set up, configure, deploy, manage, and test my APIs. I enjoy how APIs push me to think about my digital resources, and when my digital resources are APIs, the benefits begin to feel like API inception. I’m increasingly having APIs that do one thing and do it well, when it comes to API operations, allowing me to distill down the building blocks of my API operations, into a very workable world of API functionality. https://goo.gl/597gdM #DataIntegration #ML
