Systems and methods for automated application programming interface evaluation and migration

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10956244-B1
Application number	US-202017003380-A
Country	US
Kind code	B1
Filing date	Aug 26, 2020
Priority date	Aug 26, 2020
Publication date	Mar 23, 2021
Grant date	Mar 23, 2021

Abstract

A computerized system for API migration. The system includes a memory storing instructions and a processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations, which include segregating client accounts three groups, assigning a first API for communications with the first group and a second API for communications with the second group, and assigning the first API for communications with a first portion of the third group and the second API for communications with a second portion of the third group. The operations may also include collecting communications from the groups and generating metrics associated with each group, and generating a comparative report and a compatibility report. The operations may also include transmitting at least one of an alert or a recommendation based on the comparative report and the compatibility report.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computerized system for API migration, the system comprising:
at least one memory storing instructions; and
at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations comprising:
segregating client accounts into a first group, a second group, and a third group, each group having distinct members;
assigning a first API for communications with the first group and a second API for communications with the second group;
assigning the first API for communications with a first portion of the third group and the second API for communications with a second portion of the third group;
collecting, during a time interval, communications from the first group, the second group, and the third group, and generating metrics associated with each group;
generating a comparative report comparing the metrics associated with the first group and the metrics associated with the second group;
generating a compatibility report based on the metrics associated with the third group; and
transmitting at least one of an alert or a recommendation based on the comparative report and the compatibility report.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein
the first API is a legacy API and the second API is an updated API; and
the operations further comprise automatically migrating the client accounts to the updated API based on the recommendation.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the operations further comprise:
determining a comparative score based on the comparative report and a compatibility score based on the compatibility report; and
assigning the second API to the first group and the third group in response to determining the comparative score and the compatibility score are above a threshold.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first group and the second group comprise a larger number of client accounts than the third group.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein:
the comparative report specifies mismatches between API calls from the first group and a difference between the metrics associated with the first and the second groups;
the compatibility report specifies source, binary, and semantic compatibility errors between the first API and the second API;
the alert or recommendation comprises the mismatches; and
generating the alert or recommendation comprises automatically broadcasting a message in an administrator network.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein collecting the communications comprises configuring a network analyzer to:
capture packets incoming from client devices associated with the client accounts in the first group, the second, and the third group; and
storing the captured packages from each group in independent memory spaces.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein generating the metrics comprise:
for each one of the first group, second group, and third group, generating:
infrastructure API metrics comprising uptime, CPU usage, and memory usage;
application API metrics comprising requests per minute, average maximum latency, and errors per minute; and
product API metrics comprising number of unique API consumers and calls per business transaction.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein:
the alert comprises the metrics associated with the third group below compatibility thresholds; and
the recommendations comprise at least one of an updated API map table and a migration API plugin.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the first group, the second group, and the third group comprise an equal number of the client accounts.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein:
the first API and the second API comprise integration extensions connecting online shops with an e-commerce data center; and
collecting the communications comprise logging attributes of communications retrieved from a log pipeline while excluding client-side communications.

11. A computer-implemented method for API migration, the method comprising
segregating client accounts in a first group, a second group, and a third group, each group having distinct members;
assigning a first API for communications with the first group and a second API for communications with the second group;
assigning the first API for communications with a first portion of the third group and the second API for communications with a second portion of the third group;
collecting, during a time interval, communications from the first group, the second group, and the third group, and determining metrics associated with each group;
generating a comparative report comparing the metrics associated with the first group and the metrics associated with the second group;
generating a compatibility report based on the metrics associated with the third group; and
transmitting at least one of an alert or a recommendation based on the comparative report and the compatibility report.

12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the first API is a legacy API and the second API is an updated API.

13. The method of claim 12 further comprising:
determining a comparative score based on the comparative report and a compatibility score based on the compatibility report; and
assigning the second API to the first group and the third group in response to determining the comparative score and the compatibility score are above a threshold.

14. The method of claim 11 , wherein the first group and the second group comprise a larger number of client accounts than the third group.

15. The method of claim 11 , wherein:
the comparative report specifies mismatches between API calls from the first group and the second group;
the compatibility report specifies source, binary, and semantic compatibility errors between the first API and the second API;
the alert or recommendation comprises the mismatches; and
generating the alert or recommendation comprises automatically broadcasting a message in an administrator network.

16. The method of claim 11 , wherein collecting the communications comprises configuring a network analyzer to:
capture packets incoming from client devices associated with the client accounts in the first group, the second, and the third group; and
storing the captured packages from each group in independent memory spaces.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein
generating the metrics comprise, for each one of the first group, second group, and third group, generating:
infrastructure API metrics comprising uptime, CPU usage, and memory usage;
application API metrics comprising requests per minute, average max latency, and errors per minute; and
product API metrics comprising number of unique API consumers and calls per business transaction;

the alert comprises the metrics associated with the third group below viability thresholds; and
the recommendations comprise at least one of an updated API map table and a migration API plugin.

18. The method of claim 11 , wherein the first group, the second group, and the third group comprise an equal number of the client accounts.

19. The method of claim 11 , wherein:
the first API and the second API comprise integration extensions connecting online shops with an e-commerce data center; and
collecting the communications comprise logging attributes of communications retrieved from a log pipeline while excluding client-side communications.

20. A system comprising:
one or more processors; and
one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, configure the one or more processors to:
segregate client accounts in a first group, a sec

Assignees

• Coupang Corp

Inventors

• Cho Nam Woong

Classifications

• G06F11/3698 Primary

  Environments for analysis, debugging or testing of software · CPC title

• H04L41/0894

  Policy-based network configuration management · CPC title

• H04L41/0893

  Assignment of logical groups to network elements · CPC title

• G06F9/547 Primary

  Remote procedure calls [RPC]; Web services · CPC title

• H04L43/50 Primary

  Testing arrangements · CPC title