Azure API Management

Let's face it, developing and deploying a Web API (and for that matter, any product) does not make it successful. There are multiple other factors that influence the success of a Web API:

• It should provide high availability and scalability
• It should provide a support model and a seamless update process to ensure business continuity
• It should provide monitoring support for customers to understand usage and cost patterns
• It should provide a consistent and variant costing model through policies for businesses to experiment with and implement
• It needs to be backed with robust documentation and an easy-to-consume reference
• It should be available for multiple platforms to reach a large developer community
• The idea needs to be marketed to sell to a wider audience

Note

There are many other factors such as compliance, constraints, and geo-distribution that need to work to ensure the success of a production quality Web API. One of the key terms in developing and managing software...