Summary

Building good APIs starts with making them easy to use and reliable, scalable, and robust. Packaging your APIs with a great API experience and helping customers discover your APIs and effectively evaluate, integrate, test, and scale their usage helps you onboard customers successfully. If your customers are able to use your APIs effectively and build successful applications using them, growth patterns will show up in your business results.

Building an analytics strategy in steps, starting with infrastructure metrics as the base, then moving on to product metrics, and then connecting them to business metrics, makes sure that everyone working on the product has the same goals and priorities. Now that you are familiar with numerous metrics across various dimensions of infrastructure, product, and business, in the upcoming chapters, you will learn about evaluating these metrics against each other and clustering them to create various leading and lagging metrics, input and output...