Reposting the whitepaper "IBM API Connect Deployment Whitepaper" by: Matt Roberts

It is a very useful whitepaper. I found that all external links to it were broken. I have reposted it to our library to make it publicly available again.

Although it was written for an earlier version of IBM API Connect, it still contains many valuable definitions and essential concepts. It also explains the different topologies of API Connect in a clear and effective way.

Summary:

• Over the course of the preceding sections we have discussed a series of topics which will hopefully have given you a detailed
  insight into the way that API Connect works and how it can be deployed into a variety of architectures to support production level reliability and availability;
  • In section 2 we introduced API Connect, the major components that comprise the solution, and introduced the
  necessary terminology and logical concepts to give you the context for the rest of the whitepaper
  • In section 3 we talked about the key user scenarios, related failure scenarios and the questions you should ask yourself
  as part of the process of determining your availability and resilience requirements
  • Section 4 introduced typical deployment patterns starting with a minimal development installation and progressing
  through high availability configurations within a single region up to multi-region global deployments and various
  cloud/hybrid scenarios
  • In section 5 we looked in detail at each of the major deployment components of the system and the aspects
  of their operation that affect the way that you deploy or manage the solution at runtime
  • Lastly in section 6 we covered some related operational topics including disaster recovery and custom branding