WSO2 Basic Overview

WSO2 Introduction:

WSO2 is an open-source technology provider which offers an enterprise platform for integrating application programming interfaces (APIs), applications, and web services locally and across the Internet.

WSO2 solutions give enterprises the flexibility to deploy applications and services on-premises, on private or public clouds, or in hybrid environments and easily migrate between them as needed.

WSO2 Platform:

WSO2 platform provides 3 main products to design and maintain application.

API Manger, Enterprise Integrator and Identity Server

WSO2-products

API MANAGER

Api Manager helps to design and consume APIs. API Gateway helps to manage API requests and apply policies to them. API rate limiting feature helps to regulate traffic and secure against security attacks. API security provide Authentication and authorize features to API requests. 

API Manager provides Analytics feature to monitor application behavior and 

API management platform is available for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid architectures.

ENTERPRISE INTEGRATOR

Enterprise integrator provides hybrid integration platform. It enables API-centric integration using integration architecture styles such as microservices or centralized ESB.

 

WSO2 Enterprise Integrator is having 2 different architectural styles:

• Micro Integrator: It is event-driven standard message based engine. It supports message routing, transformation and other type messaging use-cases. Micro integrator is used when you need centralized, API-driven integration architecture. Micro integrator can also be used where you need a decentralized cloud-native integration like Microservices and where you need low-code integration and application monitoring.
  
  
  
  
  
  

• Streaming Integrator: It is very useful for performing ETL (Extract, Transform, Load) and where streaming operations required. It provides real time analysis of streamed data with the help of SQL-like query languages. Streaming integrator is fully compatible with systems like Kafka and NATS to full utilize of stream data. It has native support to work with WSO2 Micro integrator to trigger complex integration flows.

Benefits of WSO2 ESB

• Ensures loosely coupled solution with easy to manage plug-ins.
• Suited for Scalable design.
• It provides agile incremental solutions for development, early/often deployment, and seamless change management.
• Configuration driven design, as opposed to code driven design.

IDENTITY SERVER

WSO2 Identity server is an open source API-driven tool which provides CIAM(Customer identity and access management) solutions effectively.

It is extensible, highly scalable platform which helps to manage identities at both cloud and enterprise environments. With CIAM solutions, it gives enhanced, seamless, and secure digital experiences.

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