In this chapter, a comprehensive API design-first process was covered from beginning to end. The chapter started by describing MRA's business scenario driving the need for more efficient and leaner process for implementing APIs. It was therefore explained why and how an API design-first process could effectively help organizations, such as MRA, gain greater speed, agility, and efficiencies.
The chapter continued by describing all of the steps required to realize such process—from how to make use of conceptual concepts such as OMESA's single-purpose and multi-purpose APIs to decide on what type of API to adopt and how to define an API's domain model, to the creation of an API definition and an API mock in Apiary based on API blueprints and the Markdown Syntax for Object Notation (MSON), creation and publication of an API using the Oracle API Platform...
