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.

• 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 API'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

Author: Mehdi Medjaoui, Erik Wilde, Ronnie Mitra
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 11/23/2021
Pages: 357
Weight: 1.26lbs
Size: 9.19h x 7.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9781098103521
2nd Edition

About the Author

Mehdi Medjaoui is the co-founder of Webshell SAS (OAuth.io, GetMateria.com) and the co-founder of the APIdays.io conferences series (2017 program: Sydney, Barcelona, San Francisco, London, Auckland, Paris). He is also the co-author of the API Industry Landscape, The State of API Documentation 2017, and The State of Banking APIs 2017, as well as an author at Readwrite. He's a manager of the API Accelerator program at ReadwriteLabs (Launch February 2018) and the organizer for the Paris API meetup, APICraftSF meetup and local Hackathons.

Erik WIlde has been working in computer networking for a long time, starting with a Ph.D. in computer networking from ETH Zürich. He published the worldwide first book about the technical foundations of the Web during his post-doc year at ICSI, and then his interest switched to Web technologies and Web architecture -- fields he has been working in since 1997.

Ronnie Mitra is a Member of the API Academy. Recognized thought-leader in the API community, especially around API design and HCI (Human-Computer Interaction). Co-authored O'Reilly's Microservices: Up and Running book.

An internationally known author and speaker, Mike Amundsen travels the world consulting and talking about network architecture, Web development, and other subjects. As Director of Architecture for the API Academy, he works with companies to provide insight on how best to capitalize on the opportunities APIs present to both consumers and the enterprise.