What is DFD?

It’s not EFD

• Small [I / P / S /mB]aaS team
• Requirements driven from low level / engineers and developers upwards, hitting main core feature set
• UI, modularity, onboarding focus secondary to features

Engineer First Development

• Product UI and UX focus
• Rapid customer requirement / prototype engagement period to lock down scope, and ensure customer satisfaction before low level and middleware development
• Team starts to scale out and grow
• Modularity, documentation, learnability, error handling, validation, testing, automation
• Onboarding
• Mentoring

Design First Development

• http://raml.org/
• YAML
• JSON

• REST API schema spec

Step I - API Design With RAML

• Service: https://anypoint.mulesoft.com/apiplatform/
• Local API Designer, Mock Data, Console + Docs: https://github.bmc.com/jjacobs/raml-osprey-api-designer
• RAML API files repo: https://github.bmc.com/jjacobs/raml-api-files​

RAML Mock Data Suite

• Designer
• Console
• Documentation
• API Notebook
• Mock Data Server
• TODO: Automated Testing 

Demos - Alarms API + Connectivity form