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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

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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.

Who is this book 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.

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

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Romain OD Feb 18, 2024

It is a must-read for anyone involved in the development, management, or consumption of APIs. The author excels at simplifying complex concepts, making the book accessible to both technical and non-technical readers.The book takes you through a five-part journey that you must experience when deciding to create your API:Refreshing your understanding of APIs, their users, and how to transform them into a product.Considering all trade-offs and possibilities to achieve your purpose, as every solution requires careful evaluation.Learning how to implement it and utilizing all the tools available to support its lifecycle.As a .NET enthusiast, I missed C# when comparing popular languages for building APIs.The book covers all the expected topics comprehensively, providing an enriching reading experience

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Sri Priya P Apr 01, 2024

APIs are mechanisms that enable two software components to communicate with each other using a set of definitions and protocols.For example, the weather bureau’s software system contains daily weather data. The weather app on our phone “talks” to this system via APIs and shows the daily weather updates on the phone. All these are possible and quick because of APIs.So learning and understanding APIs is essential for all. I recently started reading the book published by Packt and really liked the way its drafted.The book "Building an API product" is an amazing book crafted by Bruno Pedro.Bruno Pedro is a computer science professional with over 25 years of experience in the industry. Throughout his career, he has worked on a variety of projects, including Internet traffic analysis, API backends and integrations, and Web applications.The book consists of following contents:1. What Are APIs?2. API User Experience3. API-as-a-Product4. API Life Cycle5. Designing an API Product6. Implementing an API Product7. Releasing an API Product8. Maintaining an API ProductI would recommend this book to get the knowledge on APIs an its implementation.

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Steven N. Willmott Feb 16, 2024

"APIs as a product" has been a common refrain as best practice for a long time, but up until now, there hasn't been a step-by-step guide that goes really deep. Bruno has done a great job in giving detailed analysis and actionable advice!

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Krishnan Raghavan Jan 31, 2024

I have not come across many books that focus solely on teaching about API's. Sure, APIs are covered as part of many books related to programming languages but the assumption is that either the reader has sufficient knowledge about API or covers the fundamental part of API that is relevant to understanding the topic being talked about. This book focuses only on API and the readers will surely gain a lot of knowledge in this topic. The book does not assume that you have previous exposure to the topic of API and hence both novice as well as advanced readers will benefit from this book. This book is broken down into 5 sections.The first section talks about the origin and the fundamental concepts related to API's. The first chapter explores how APIs work on different networks as well as different types of APIs such as REST, gRPC, AMQP, and MQTT. The second chapter talks about the top industries where APIs are used. In this chapter, the author also correlates the end user's experience and how it positively or negatively influences the success of API products. The third chapter helps the user understand the business value that an API product can bring and the different options for monetizing an API product to generate revenue. The fourth chapter talks about the API life cycle using the four easy-to-understand stages i.e. design, implementation, release, and maintenance.The second section comprehensively explores API product design, covering key stages such as ideation, strategy, definition, validation, and specification. The fifth chapter explains the ideation step and how to execute it. The reader understands how high-level design is generated using techniques such as brainstorming. The sixth chapter talks about the strategy for buying an API product. The seventh chapter defines and validates the API. This chapter will help the reader understand how to define and test for functional as well as business requirements using API mocks. The last chapter in this section discusses choosing the correct type of API for the use case being worked upon.The third section talks about the development techniques, API security, API testing, and API QA. The ninth chapter will help the reader understand how to quickly prototype the design talked about in the last section. This chapter also talks about the selection of programming language and the framework that is the best fit for the requirement. Chapter 10 talks about API Security. The reader will understand how to design secure APIs. This chapter also talks about what is fuzzing, authentication, etc. The next chapter API testing will help the user test the APIs that have been built as part of the previous two chapter's learnings. The author has also introduced a few tools like Pact, Postman, and Apache JMeter which will help the reader write and test better APIs. The last chapter, chapter 12, in this section, talks about quality assurance. This chapter starts from the very basics of what is QA. The reader will be able to understand and appreciate how QA can help build a better API product.The fourth section is about release and post-release observation and maintenance. Chapter 13 talks about continuous integration and how to use this process to do deployment. Chapter 14 is about observing and performance monitoring once the deployment process has been completed. Chapter 15 talks about API distribution and its ability to generate revenue.The fifth section talks about maintaining an API Product. While the first four sections talk about what is API, how to develop an API product, and how to deploy an API product, this section talks about maintaining the API product and what efforts go into the same. Chapter 16 talks about user support and how to help users get their job done. Chapter 17 talks about API versioning and its importance. The last chapter, Chapter 18 talks about what are the reasons and decisions taken to put an API to rest and how this needs to be planned to not significantly impact the other stakeholders.This is a wonderful book written by Bruno Pedro and I appreciate the efforts that have gone into making this book as interesting a read as possible.

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Maxim Bovykin Mar 29, 2024

I continue my technical reading streak and just had the chance to delve into "Building an API product" by Bruno Pedro.With our digital world deeply interconnected via APIs, understanding their creation and management feels essential, making this book a valuable read for virtually anyone in tech.There was a time when company I worked at shifted everything to GraphQL, and like many, I followed without much thought. This book was an eye-opener, presenting a landscape of alternatives that I hadn’t considered before. Bruno masterfully covers the A to Z of API development, from prototyping and testing to the nuances of code generation and server setup. What resonated with me the most were the discussions on performance testing and scaling, topics crucial for anyone in backend engineering but often overlooked.The book does more than teach; it equips us with the ability to question and choose the right tools and strategies in API development. It’s particularly special to me as it broadens my understanding of the backend work and how it is connected to all the parts of the stack, highlighting the importance of things such as thoughtful API versioning and distribution."Building an API product" isn't just educational; it’s a resource that I’ll keep coming back to, proving its worth as a practical handbook in the evolving tech landscape.

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