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Continuous API Management: Making the Right Decisions in an Evolving Landscape 2nd Edition
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A lot of work is required to release an API, but the effort doesn't always pay off. Overplanning before an API matures is a wasted investment, while underplanning can lead to disaster. The second edition of this book provides maturity models for individual APIs and multi-API landscapes to help you invest the right human and company resources for the right maturity level at the right time.
How do you balance the desire for agility and speed with the need for robust and scalable operations? Four experts show software architects, program directors, and product owners how to maximize the value of their APIs by managing them as products through a continuous lifecycle.
- Learn which API decisions you need to govern
- Design, deploy, and manage APIs using an API-as-a-product (AaaP) approach
- Examine 10 pillars that form the foundation of API product work
- Learn how the continuous improvement model governs changes throughout an API's lifetime
- Explore the five stages of a complete API product lifecycle
- Delve into team roles needed to design, build, and maintain your APIs
- Learn how to manage APIs published by your organization
- ISBN-101098103521
- ISBN-13978-1098103521
- Edition2nd
- PublisherO'Reilly Media
- Publication dateNovember 23, 2021
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions7 x 0.75 x 9.19 inches
- Print length357 pages
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From the Preface
What’s in This Book
This book contains our collective knowledge from many years spent designing, developing, and improving APIs—both our own and others’. We’ve distilled all that experience into this book. We’ve identified two core factors for effective API development: adopting a product perspective and implementing the right kind of team. We’ve also identified three essential factors for managing that work: governance, product maturity, and landscape design.
These five elements of API management form a foundation on which you can build a successful API management program. In this book, we introduce each of these topics and provide you with guidance on how to shape them to fit your own organizational context.
What’s Not in This Book
The scope of API management is big, and there is a massive amount of variation in contexts, platforms, and protocols. Given the constraints of time and space when writing a book, it was impossible for us to address all the specific implementation practices of API work.
This book isn’t a guide for designing a REST API or for picking a security gateway product. If you are looking for a prescriptive guide to writing API code or designing an HTTP API, this isn’t the right book for you.
While we do have examples that talk about specific practices, this isn’t an API implementation–focused book (the good news is there are plenty of books, blogs, and videos available already to help you fill that need). Instead, this book tackles a problem that is rarely addressed: how to effectively manage the work of building APIs within a complex, continuously changing organizational system.
Who Should Read This Book
If you are just starting to build an API program and want to understand the work ahead of you, or if you already have APIs but want to learn how to manage them better, then this is the book for you.
In this book, we’ve tried to build an API management framework that can be applied to more than one context. In these pages you’ll find guidance that will help you to manage a single API that you want to share with developers around the world, as well as advice for building a complex set of APIs in a microservice architecture designed only for internal developers—and everything in between.
We’ve also written this book to be as technologically neutral as possible. The advice and analysis we provide is applicable to any API-based architecture, including HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Create/Read/Update/Delete (CRUD), REpresentational State Transfer (REST), GraphQL, and event-driven styles of interaction. This is a book for anyone who wants to improve the decisions being made about their APIs.
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About the Author
Erik WIlde has been working in computer networking for a long time, starting with a Ph.D. in computer networking from ETH Zürich. He published the worldwide first book about the technical foundations of the Web during his post-doc year at ICSI, and then his interest switched to Web technologies and Web architecture -- fields he has been working in since 1997.
Ronnie Mitra is a Member of the API Academy. Recognized thought-leader in the API community, especially around API design and HCI (Human-Computer Interaction). Co-authored O’Reilly’s Microservices: Up and Running book.
An internationally known author and speaker, Mike Amundsen travels the world consulting and talking about network architecture, Web development, and other subjects. As Director of Architecture for the API Academy, he works with companies to provide insight on how best to capitalize on the opportunities APIs present to both consumers and the enterprise.
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- Publisher : O'Reilly Media; 2nd edition (November 23, 2021)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 357 pages
- ISBN-10 : 1098103521
- ISBN-13 : 978-1098103521
- Item Weight : 1.26 pounds
- Dimensions : 7 x 0.75 x 9.19 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,013,833 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #413 in Web Services
- #531 in Computer Systems Analysis & Design (Books)
- #569 in Software Testing
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An internationally known author and speaker, Mike Amundsen travels the world consulting and talking about network architecture, Web development, and intersection of technology and society. He works with companies large and small to help them capitalize on the opportunities APIs and Microservices present for both consumers and the enterprise.
Amundsen has authored numerous books and papers. He contributed to the O'Reilly Media book, "Continuous API Management" (2018). His "RESTful Web Clients", was published by O'Reilly in February 2017 and he co-authored "Microservice Architecture" (June 2016). Amundsen's 2013 collaboration with Leonard Richardson "RESTful Web APIs" and his 2011 book, “Building Hypermedia APIs with HTML5 and Node”, are common references for building adaptable Web applications. His latest book "Design and Build Great APIs" for Pragmatic Publishing is scheduled for release in early 2020.
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- E. ChristophReviewed in Germany on March 4, 2022
3.0 out of 5 stars ok overview - nothing unknown
the book is ok to get an overview of how to setup API from a product management / lifecycle perspective. Technical details are not in, I missed some more advices and detailed/insider practical examples of successful API companies, in genral i miss details per each topic
- Amazon CustomerReviewed in Canada on February 8, 2023
2.0 out of 5 stars Book is great. However, it seems like it was in humid/wet environment.
Book is great - great content. However, it seems like it was in humid environment.
All of the pages arrived, warped, and with wrinkles. I'm worried that the book got wet at some point.
Still usable, but disappointing for a new book.
Amazon CustomerBook is great. However, it seems like it was in humid/wet environment.
Reviewed in Canada on February 8, 2023
All of the pages arrived, warped, and with wrinkles. I'm worried that the book got wet at some point.
Still usable, but disappointing for a new book.
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