Modern business runs on APIs, but REST alone can’t deliver the real-time responsiveness customers expect. Event APIs fill that gap, and unified API management brings REST and event APIs together under one model—helping you build faster, more responsive apps while keeping everything governed and consistent.
Learn how to manage your events as event APIs and integrate with API governance platforms or API marketplaces. This guide walks you through the concepts, capabilities, and steps to implement unified API management with Solace.
Event APIs 101
Introduction
Learn how Solace Platform provides the tools to make unified API management simple so you can adopt EDA alongside your existing APIs and integrations
Topics Covered
- Importance of real-time business processes
- Drawbacks of traditional REST APIs
- How EDA overcomes them
Key Capabilities Required
Event management is at the heart of unified API management, allowing organizations to design, document, and govern their Event APIs. Solace Platform makes this possible with tools to consistently manage schemas, events, and APIs.
Topics Covered
- Event management for event APIs
- Integrated governance across API styles
- Developer Portals for discovery and access
- Tools and integrations for CI/CD workflows
Creating and Managing Event APIs
Creating and Managing Event APIs
Event management is the foundation of effective Event APIs—covering schema management, event design, and alignment with business processes and data models.
Solace Platform simplifies this by enabling schema creation and reuse, including leveraging existing REST schemas for consistency and reduced effort. It also guides event identification and topic definition, helping you design Event APIs that align with REST structures so developers can more easily adopt event-driven approaches.
Topics Covered
- Creation and reuse of schemas from existing REST APIs
- Identification of events and topic definition
- Designing event APIs aligned with REST API structures
- Lifecycle management and versioning
Creating and Managing Event API Products
Once designed, event APIs need to be packaged into consumable products tailored for specific developer audiences and use cases. With Solace Platform, you can define plans with SLAs, configure protocols and broker connections, and publish Event API Products on Solace Event Mesh.
Packaging Event APIs into products makes them easy to discover, understand, and adopt—accelerating adoption, driving consistency, and turning your events into business value.
Topics Covered
- Package Event APIs for developer audiences
- Set up plans with appropriate SLAs
- Configure messaging protocols and broker connections
- Make Event API Products available for consumption
Integrating with API Management Products
Developers want a single place to find and use APIs. By integrating Event APIs into governance platforms like Gravitee, WSO2, and Kong, Solace Platform brings them directly into the portals developers already use—making adoption seamless and ensuring consistent governance across REST and event APIs.
Topics Covered
- Integration with partner API management platforms
- Preparing your Event API products for partner integrations
- Discovering Event APIs in platforms
like Gravitee, WSO2, and Kong - Enable developer self-service for Event APIs
Advanced Topics
With a solid understanding of event APIs and event API products, you’re ready to import specifications via AsyncAPI, and create complex event API products.
Importing Events via AsyncAPI
Import events from external systems instead of creating them from scratch. Solace Platform supports importing events via AsyncAPI specifications, making it easy to integrate with existing sources.
This is especially useful with systems like SAP S/4, which provide well-defined event structures. By importing these, you can quickly create Event APIs that tap into existing streams. Solace AsyncAPI Studio further streamlines the process, enabling you to create and export specifications directly to Solace Platform.
Topics Covered:
- Import events from systems like SAP S/4
- Use AsyncAPI Studio to export specifications to Solace Platform
- Create Event APIs from imported events
- Enhance customer experience with additional event streams
Building Complex Event API Products
As your architecture matures, you may need complex Event API Products that combine multiple APIs and offer tailored plans. Solace Platform makes it easy to build these comprehensive solutions—so you can meet diverse customer needs while keeping governance and delivery consistent.
Topics Covered:
- Combine multiple event APIs for specific use cases
- Create basic and advanced plans for different customer needs
- Configure queue allocation by event types
- Make complex event API products available to APIM solutions