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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2024

Last Updated in Jan 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781837630448

Length 278 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

Design

Author (1):

Bruno Pedro

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Table of Contents (26) Chapters

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

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Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

A

acceptance testing 165, 166

access control attributes

authentication 93

authorization 93

rate limiting 93

secure communication 93

throttling 93

user management 93

access control lists (ACLs) 93

account takeover (ATO) attacks 147

Activity Streams 235

Actix 139

Advanced Message Queuing Protocol (AMQP) 14, 184

attributes and constraints 112, 113

Amazon Web Services (AWS) 24, 39, 188, 209

Apache Avro 97

Apache JMeter 163

Apiable 17

API-as-a-Product 35

API capabilities 88

access control 93

compliance, with laws and regulations 94

documentation 94

functional requirements 91, 92

integration needs 92

security 93

use case analysis 88-90

API changelog 234-236

API changes

communicating 234-236

API contract

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Authors (1)

Bruno Pedro

Bruno Pedro

Bruno Pedro is a computer science professional with over 25 years of experience in the industry. Throughout his career, he has worked on a variety of projects, including Internet traffic analysis, API backends and integrations, and Web applications. He has also managed teams of developers and founded several companies, including tarpipe, an iPaaS, in 2008, and the API Changelog in 2015. In addition to his work experience, Bruno has also made contributions to the API industry through his written work, including two published books on API-related topics and numerous technical magazine and web articles. He has also been a speaker at numerous API industry conferences and events from 2013 to 2018.

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