Stefan Mesquita (Deutsche Bank): How implementing an internal developer portal is driving digital transformation

This talk was presented at the API The Docs Amsterdam 2023 conference on 6-7 June. We are glad to present the video recording and the talk summary.

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Stefan Mesquita

Chief Product Owner for API Platform at Deutsche Bank
 

”We wanted to treat the internal portal like an external marketplace and offer the users a five -star user experience.”

In the demo, you can hear about:

• The goal: moving from a more monolithic-driven landscape to a microservice-driven landscape.
• The problems faced by Deutsche Bank API Platform when adapting to the new architecture (e.g., slow adoption of APIs).
• The solution: Compliant and UI-based API deployment process.
• Not just APIs, but a UI for users to publish APIs for discovery.
• Challenges: design an intuitive interface, raise awareness of the new product, get the buy-in from the stakeholders for a new SDLC process.
• Fully self-service, simple processes.
• Stakeholders using APIs offered by Deutsche Bank API Platform.
• The result: an integrated internal API portal.
• How the number of APIs changed since going live.

Takeaways

• Digital transformation happens step-by-step.
• Accept and learn from failure.
• Focus on API quality from the beginning.
• Understand and consider your user groups.
• Deliver quality.