Building an API Product

eBook Details:

• Paperback: 278 pages
• Publisher: WOW! eBook (January 25, 2024)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1837630445
• ISBN-13: 978-1837630448

eBook Description:

Building an API Product: 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

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.

• 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

By the end of this Building an API Product development book, you’ll have the confidence and skills to create API products that truly stand out in the market.