Summary

At this point, you know how to identify the different stages of the API life cycle and how they’re all interconnected. You also understand which stakeholders participate at each stage of the API life cycle. You can describe the most important elements of each stage of the API life cycle and know why they must be considered to build a successful API product.

You first learned about my simplified version of the API life cycle and its four stages. You then went into each of them, starting with the design stage. You learned how designing an API can affect its success. You understood the connection between user personas, their attributes, and the architectural type of the API that you’re building. After that, you got to know what high and low-level design validations are and how they can help you reach a product-market fit. You then learned that having a machine-readable definition enables you to document your API but is also a shortcut to implementing its server...