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Building an API Product

Design, implement, release, and maintain API products that meet user needs

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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Paid access
|Feb 2024

Unlock the power of APIs with expert guidance and techniques for successfully creating, testing, and maintaining products that align with customers and stand out in the market

Key Features

  • Understand the complete API product lifecycle, from planning to implementation, release, and maintenance
  • Design and support API products that distinguish themselves on the market by meeting user needs
  • Implement actionable techniques for developing, testing, and securing a successful API product
  • Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

  • Master each stage of the API lifecycle
  • Discover technologies and protocols employed in building an API product
  • Understand the different API design definition and validation techniques
  • Generate an API server from a machine-readable definition
  • Understand how to set up and analyze API monitors
  • Familiarize yourself with the different gateways for releasing an API
  • Find out how to create an API portal that attracts users
  • Gain insights into planning and communicating API retirement to users

Who this book is for

Building an API Product is a guide for product managers and software developers navigating the world of APIs to build programmable products. You don't have to be an experienced professional to learn from this book as long as you have basic knowledge of internet technologies and how users interact with a product.

Table of Contents

  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
https://github.com/PacktPublishing/Building-an-API-Product
PDF ISBN: 978-1-83763-853-6
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2024 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2024
Language: English
Pages: 278
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
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