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Published inDec 2022
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Giuseppe Di Federico
Giuseppe Di Federico
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Giuseppe Di Federico

Giuseppe Di Federico started working for Microsoft in 2011, with previous experience working for IBM and Accenture in software development. He became an architect for cloud and hybrid solutions, serving customers in more than 10 countries across EMEA. He had the opportunity to lead multicultural teams, visit many multinational customers, and learn about different cultures, mindsets, and assets, which enabled him to also appreciate how organizations' structures impact their results. During his experience, he has been able to appreciate many identity patterns designed to last, to be reliable and secure. In June 2022, he accepted the challenge to join a new leading-edge team for the greatest service company in Italy.
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Fabrizio Barcaroli
Fabrizio Barcaroli
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Fabrizio Barcaroli

Fabrizio Barcaroli (born in 1987) started his career as a consultant in Italy after obtaining a master's degree in computer science in 2012. In 2013, Fabrizio joined Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Consulting Services unit, where he developed his technical skills and helped customers achieve their business goals through the usage of Microsoft technologies. With the rise of the cloud era, Fabrizio specialized in cloud and identity solutions, and in 2020, he became a cloud solution architect, a technical advisor that helps close the gap between business needs and Microsoft technologies for big enterprises operating in the manufacturing, finance, and retail markets in Italy and across the globe.
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The vertical API approach

The code owned by the companies is usually developed by different teams. These teams can be either internal (employees of a company), external (contractors), or a combination of both. When is time to develop an API, the team assigned to doing so is commonly responsible, among the implementation itself, for the following aspects:

  • Design decisions
  • Security and authentication
  • Documentation
  • Change management
  • Testing
  • Monitoring
  • Discoverability

All in all, we can state that different APIs are not just developed by different brains; they are also envisioned, implemented, and tested by different teams (we are going to refer to this process as a vertical API approach).

This kind of tight coupling between APIs and specific teams only works if the company needs to develop fewer APIs. Nowadays, organizations are facing disruption. The API landscape in a generic organization is clearly reaching a tipping point, and the vertical...

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Published in: Dec 2022Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781801810845

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Giuseppe Di Federico

Giuseppe Di Federico started working for Microsoft in 2011, with previous experience working for IBM and Accenture in software development. He became an architect for cloud and hybrid solutions, serving customers in more than 10 countries across EMEA. He had the opportunity to lead multicultural teams, visit many multinational customers, and learn about different cultures, mindsets, and assets, which enabled him to also appreciate how organizations' structures impact their results. During his experience, he has been able to appreciate many identity patterns designed to last, to be reliable and secure. In June 2022, he accepted the challenge to join a new leading-edge team for the greatest service company in Italy.
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Fabrizio Barcaroli

Fabrizio Barcaroli (born in 1987) started his career as a consultant in Italy after obtaining a master's degree in computer science in 2012. In 2013, Fabrizio joined Microsoft as part of the Microsoft Consulting Services unit, where he developed his technical skills and helped customers achieve their business goals through the usage of Microsoft technologies. With the rise of the cloud era, Fabrizio specialized in cloud and identity solutions, and in 2020, he became a cloud solution architect, a technical advisor that helps close the gap between business needs and Microsoft technologies for big enterprises operating in the manufacturing, finance, and retail markets in Italy and across the globe.
Read more about Fabrizio Barcaroli