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Building an API Product. Design, implement, release, and maintain API products that meet user needs

Building an API Product. Design, implement, release, and maintain API products that meet user needs

Bruno Pedro

Ebook
The exponential increase in the number of APIs is evidence of their widespread adoption by companies seeking to deliver value to users across diverse industries, making the art of building successful APIs an invaluable skill for anyone involved in product development. With this comprehensive guide, you’ll walk through the entire process of planning, designing, implementing, releasing, and maintaining successful API products.
You’ll start by exploring all aspects of APIs, including their types, technologies, protocols, and lifecycle stages. Next, you’ll learn how to define an API strategy and identify business objectives, user personas, and jobs-to-be-done (JTBD). With these skills, you’ll delve into designing and validating API capabilities to create a machine-readable API definition. As you advance, the book helps you understand how to choose the right language and framework for securely releasing an API server and offers insights into analyzing API usage metrics, improving performance, and creating compelling documentation that users love. Finally, you’ll discover ways to support users, manage versions, and communicate changes or the retirement of an API.
By the end of this API development book, you’ll have the confidence and skills to create API products that truly stand out in the market.
  • 1. What are APIs?
  • 2. API User Experience
  • 3. API-as-a-Product
  • 4. API Lifecycle
  • 5. Elements of API Product Design
  • 6. Identifying an API Strategy
  • 7. Defining and Validating an API Design
  • 8. Specifying an API
  • 9. Development Techniques
  • 10. API Security
  • 11. API Testing
  • 12. API Quality Assurance
  • 13. Deploying the API
  • 14. Observing API Behavior
  • 15. Distribution Channels
  • 16. User Support
  • 17. API Versioning
  • 18. Planning API Retirement
  • Title: Building an API Product. Design, implement, release, and maintain API products that meet user needs
  • Author: Bruno Pedro
  • Original title: Building an API Product. Design, implement, release, and maintain API products that meet user needs
  • ISBN: 9781837638536, 9781837638536
  • Date of issue: 2024-01-25
  • Format: Ebook
  • Item ID: e_3sjz
  • Publisher: Packt Publishing