API Management: An Architect's Guide to Developing and Managing APIs for Your Organization - Softcover

De, Brajesh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484213068 ISBN 13: 9781484213063

Publisher: Apress, 2017

Synopsis

Maximize the impact of your assets and business services by providing APIs for developers and other users. The journey described in this book starts with identifying business assets. As part of the API team, you then need to identify and define the requirements of traffic management, security, mediation, and orchestration. You also must define metrics for the analytics to measure the success of the overall API program. API documentation and the ease of developer onboarding also determine the success of the APIs. Finally, monetization of these APIs leads to revenue generation for the enterprise.

Author De ― an expert in building and managing API solutions ― provides enterprise architects, designers, and technologists with insight into the world of APIs and the various technical aspects of building and managing an effective API management solution. API Management: Developing and Managing APIs for your Organization:

• Introduces the basics of APIs and highlights their value
• Provides an overview of technologies for building an API management solution and defines the requirements, including how to build a RESTful API
• Offers design principles for building developer-friendly APIs
• Explains how to secure your APIs
• Shows how to use API analytics to measure the success of your APIs
• Demonstrates how to monetize APIs

Finally, API Management touches on various technical nuances of creating, distributing, and managing an API. This book will not only help you learn how to design, build, deploy, and manage an API for an enterprise scale, but also generate revenue for your organization.

What You'll Learn

• Discover the API life cycle
• Design and develop APIs
• Implement API security
• Test your APIs
• Deploy and monitor your APIs

Who This Book Is For

Enterprise architects, technology enthusiasts, security architects, and operations specialists.

About this title

About the Author

Brajesh De is a seasoned technology expert with over 18 years of experience in technology consulting, architecture, design and implementation of highly distributed and scalable application integration solutions using REST API, SOA and JEE technologies.  He is an Accenture certified Senior Technology Architect. With specialization in API Management, he currently leads the API Management capability for Accenture's India Development Center. Prior to joining Accenture, he has worked as a Principal Architect with Apigee, architecting API Management solutions for large enterprises in Telco domain. He has also worked with Dell, where he was responsible for SOA governance rollout and building integration solutions for Dell’s internal applications using SOA technologies. Before Dell he was working as a Senior Technical Architect with Wipro Technologies where he has been instrumental in building complex integration solution for their tier one clients. Brajesh is also an experienced trainer, providing corporate training in advanced API and SOA technologies  He holds a B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT-BHU, Varanasi. He was awarded the IIT BHU gold medal for securing the first position and first division in B.Tech. Electrical Engineering Examination, 1998.

From the Back Cover

Maximize the impact of your assets and business services by providing APIs for developers and

other users. The journey described in this book starts with identifying business assets. As part

of the API team, you then need to identify and define the requirements of traffic management,

security, mediation, and orchestration. You also must define metrics for the analytics to

measure the success of the overall API program. API documentation and the ease of developer

onboarding also determine the success of the APIs. Finally, monetization of these APIs leads to

revenue generation for the enterprise.

Authors De—an expert in building and managing API solutions—provides enterprise architects,

designers, and technologists with insight into the world of APIs and the various technical aspects

of building and managing an effective API management solution. API Management:

Developing and Managing APIs for your Organization:

• Introduces the basics of APIs and highlights their value

• Provides an overview of technologies for building an API management solution and

defines the requirements, including how to build a RESTful API

• Offers design principles for building developer-friendly APIs

• Explains how to secure your APIs

• Shows how to use API analytics to measure the success of your APIs

• Demonstrates how to monetize APIs

Finally, API Management touches on various technical nuances of creating, distributing,

and managing an API. This book will not only help you learn how to design, build, deploy, and

manage an API for an enterprise scale, but also generate revenue for your organization.

Edition details

• Publisher: Apress
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1484213068
• ISBN 13: 9781484213063
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 220