Название: Continuous API Management: Making the Right Decisions in an Evolving Landscape, Second Edition (Final)
Автор: Mehdi Medjaoui, Erik Wilde
Издательство: O’Reilly Media, Inc.
Год: 2022
Страниц: 360
Язык: английский
Формат: epub
Размер: 10.2 MB

A lot of work is required to release an API, but the effort doesn't always pay off. Overplanning before an API matures is a wasted investment, while underplanning can lead to disaster. The second edition of this book provides maturity models for individual APIs and multi-API landscapes to help you invest the right human and company resources for the right maturity level at the right time.

How do you balance the desire for agility and speed with the need for robust and scalable operations? Four experts show software architects, program directors, and product owners how to maximize the value of their APIs by managing them as products through a continuous lifecycle.

The API is now the connective tissue of the world’s technology fabric. There are tens of thousands of public and open APIs that deliver a huge range of functionality to web and mobile applications, from weather data to betting odds to flight arrival times to voice connectivity. The total API universe is many times that size when you factor in closed APIs used for gated services. Microservices and Kubernetes are contributing to the explosion of the API economy, as well; APIs are the default communication modality for cloud native applications.

As organizations expand, they create and consume more APIs. This requires some thinking and planning for a future where almost everything is connected via API. In this future, what kind of guidelines should you provide for designing, implementing, and deploying APIs in your organization? And how can you design systems of governance and development to constantly scale the technology, people, processes, and policies for APIs? Continuous API Management provides insights into these critical questions. This book is a detailed yet accessible manual of best practices for technical practitioners, DevOps leaders, and any other professionals working on API business strategy. With rich examples and a clear point of view, the book provides guidance on all the critical business elements of planning, provisioning, delivering, and maintaining APIs—from inception to the evolution of API strategies as enterprises scale up quickly.

Learn which API decisions you need to govern
Design, deploy, and manage APIs using an API-as-a-product (AaaP) approach
Examine 10 pillars that form the foundation of API product work
Learn how the continuous improvement model governs changes throughout an APIâ??s lifetime
Explore the five stages of a complete API product lifecycle
Delve into team roles needed to design, build, and maintain your APIs
Learn how to manage APIs published by your organization