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Building an API Product

You're reading from   Building an API Product Design, implement, release, and maintain API products that meet user needs

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jan 2024
Last Updated in Jan 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781837630448
Length 278 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Bruno Pedro Bruno Pedro
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Table of Contents (26) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:The API Product
2. Chapter 1: What Are APIs? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: API User Experience 4. Chapter 3: API-as-a-Product 5. Chapter 4: API Life Cycle 6. Part 2:Designing an API Product
7. Chapter 5: Elements of API Product Design 8. Chapter 6: Identifying an API Strategy 9. Chapter 7: Defining and Validating an API Design 10. Chapter 8: Specifying an API 11. Part 3:Implementing an API Product
12. Chapter 9: Development Techniques 13. Chapter 10: API Security 14. Chapter 11: API Testing 15. Chapter 12: API Quality Assurance 16. Part 4:Releasing an API Product
17. Chapter 13: Deploying the API 18. Chapter 14: Observing API Behavior 19. Chapter 15: Distribution Channels 20. Part 5:Maintaining an API Product
21. Chapter 16: User Support 22. Chapter 17: API Versioning 23. Chapter 18: Planning for API Retirement 24. Index 25. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

At this point, you know how you can use API versioning to release changes efficiently. You know what the different API versioning strategies are and how consumers can use them to request the version they want to use. You also know that the easiest way to promote an automatic migration to your latest version is to make it the default one. Whenever consumers don’t specify which version they want to request, you serve them the latest available one. You know what deprecating an API version means and how you can control its impact by defining a sunset policy. You also know that the highest impact comes from changes that create incompatibilities with the previous version-breaking changes. You know how to identify breaking changes by generating a diff between two API versions. Additionally, you know what types of differences can be considered breaking changes. Finally, you know the options you have for communicating changes to your whole user base. You know that having an up...

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