Maximize the impact of your assets and business services by providing APIs for developers and other users. The journey described in this book starts with identifying business assets. As part of the API team, you then need to identify and define the requirements of traffic management, security, mediation, and orchestration. You also must define metrics for the analytics to measure the success of the overall API program. API documentation and the ease of developer onboarding also determine the success of the APIs. Finally, monetization of these APIs leads to revenue generation for the enterprise.

Author De — an expert in building and managing API solutions — provides enterprise architects, designers, and technologists with insight into the world of APIs and the various technical aspects of building and managing an effective API management solution. API Management: Developing and Managing APIs for your Organization:

Introduces the basics of APIs and highlights their value

Provides an overview of technologies for building an API management solution and defines the requirements, including how to build a RESTful API

Offers design principles for building developer-friendly APIs

Explains how to secure your APIs

Shows how to use API analytics to measure the success of your APIs

Demonstrates how to monetize APIs

Finally, API Management touches on various technical nuances of creating, distributing, and managing an API. This book will not only help you learn how to design, build, deploy, and manage an API for an enterprise scale, but also generate revenue for your organization.

What You'll Learn

Discover the API life cycle

Design and develop APIs

Implement API security

Test your APIs

Deploy and monitor your APIs

Who This Book Is For

Enterprise architects, technology enthusiasts, security architects, and operations specialists.

Brajesh De is a seasoned technology expert with over 18 years of experience in technology consulting, architecture, design and implementation of highly distributed and scalable application integration solutions using REST API, SOA and JEE technologies. He is an Accenture certified Senior Technology Architect. With specialization in API Management, he currently leads the API Management capability for Accenture's India Development Center. Prior to joining Accenture, he has worked as a Principal Architect with Apigee, architecting API Management solutions for large enterprises in Telco domain. He has also worked with Dell, where he was responsible for SOA governance rollout and building integration solutions for Dell’s internal applications using SOA technologies. Before Dell he was working as a Senior Technical Architect with Wipro Technologies where he has been instrumental in building complex integration solution for their tier one clients. Brajesh is also an experienced trainer, providing corporate training in advanced API and SOA technologies He holds a B. Tech degree in Electrical Engineering from IIT-BHU, Varanasi. He was awarded the IIT BHU gold medal for securing the first position and first division in B.Tech. Electrical Engineering Examination, 1998.