Node.js Design Patterns: Master a series of patterns and techniques to create modular, scalable, and efficient applications

by Mario Casciaro

API orchestration The pattern we are going to describe next is probably the most natural and explicit way to integrate and compose a set of services, and it's called API orchestration. Daniel Jacobson, VP of engineering for the Netflix API, in one of his blog posts (http://thenextweb.com/dd/2013/12/17/future-api-design-orchestration-layer), defines API Orchestration as follows: An API Orchestration Layer (OL) is an abstraction layer that takes generically-modeled data elements and/or features and prepares them in a more specific way for a targeted developer or application. The generically modeled elements and/or features fit the description of a service in a Microservice architecture perfectly. The idea is to create an abstraction to connect those bits and pieces to implement new services specific to the application.