You're reading from API Analytics for Product Managers Understand key API metrics that can help you grow your business

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803247656

Length 344 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

REST API

Author (1):

Deepa Goyal

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Table of Contents (24) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1:The API Landscape

2. Chapter 1: API as a Product FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: API Product Management

4. Chapter 3: API Life Cycle and Maturity

5. Chapter 4: Building and Managing API Products

6. Chapter 5: Growth for API Products

7. Chapter 6: Support Models for API Products

8. Part 2: Understanding the Developer

9. Chapter 7: Walking in the Customer’s Shoes

10. Chapter 8: Customer Expectations and Goals

11. Chapter 9: Components of API Experience

12. Part 3: Deep Dive into Key Metrics for API Products

13. Chapter 10: Infrastructure Metrics

14. Chapter 11: API Product Metrics

15. Chapter 12: Business Metrics

16. Part 4: Setting a Cohesive Analytics Strategy

17. Chapter 13: Drawing the Big Picture with Data

18. Chapter 14: Keeping Metrics Honest

19. Chapter 15: Counter Metrics to Avoid Blind Spots

20. Chapter 16: Decision-Making with Data

21. The API Analytics Cheat Sheet

22. Index

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API Life Cycle and Maturity

At this point, you have now learned about and are familiar with the various types of products, including B2B products, B2C products, platform products, and API products. You have also learned about the role of a product manager and how different types of product managers have a wide range of commonly-found skills alongside a set of particular skills unique to their specialization. In this chapter, we will focus on certain aspects of API products that are critical for API product managers to understand so that they can analyze the API products available on the market and help shape the API products they lead.

In this chapter, you will look at some case studies of the most prominent API companies to understand how they establish and communicate their API life cycles and maturity to their customers, covering the following key aspects of APIs as a product: