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API Certification News

Aran White December 22, 2020

Our third API Academy course: API Product Manager is out now! Learn how to make your APIs as easy as possible to consume by your core audience – the developers who

Istio and Mesh are a Microservices Deployment Framework

Jay Thorne May 26, 2020

And Together, They Need to have Business Context The industry and our customers have expressed a great interest in Istio and service mesh over the past couple of months. I

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API Certification News

Our third API Academy course: API Product Manager is out now! Learn how to make your APIs as easy as possible to consume by your core audience – the developers who will build on top of them. Get certified

Aran White December 22, 2020

What Are the Different Types of APIs?

In this article, we’ll provide an overview of the API types within these two distinctions, as well as a couple of things someone might mean when they say “API.” APIs are integral to all software projects, yet the acronym doesn’t have a singular meaning. Yes, it stands for “Application Programming Interface,” but people use that

Adam DuVander November 17, 2020

API Metrics: How to Measure Your Impact

Along with the business strategy comes the measurements you’ll use to determine success. In this post, we’ll consider three common categories of API metrics: Raw API Usage: Data on calls and users Business Value: An API’s value to your bottom line Innovation and Partnership: Value to longer term business goals Ideally these three areas of

Adam DuVander October 12, 2020

Three API Governance Patterns and How to Choose One

Most organizations maintain dozens or even hundreds of APIs. Maintaining consistency and avoiding redundancy quickly becomes a major issue. API governance helps organizations declare and adhere to guidelines for new and existing APIs. There are different approaches to encourage conformity in API design, including governance review and automated restrictions. In this post, we’ll explore both

Adam DuVander August 27, 2020

Developers Aren’t the Users of Your API

Hang around the API community long enough and you’ll hear about design, developer experience, and ways to appeal to someone integrating with your programming interface. That may lead you to think of developers as the users of your API. While an important audience, developers are a conduit for the actual end users of the software

Adam DuVander August 4, 2020

NA API Academy Virtual Workshop 2020 Replay

Here’s the replay of the North America API Academy Virtual Workshop from July 15, 2020. The agenda was the keynote on API strategy with John Cocke of HCL, followed by a discussion on API design with Academy members Jaime Ryan and Aran White. Jay Thorne of the Academy then discussed microservices and service mesh, and

Bill Oakes, CISSP July 16, 2020

Microsurfaces: The Role of APIs in a Microservice Architecture

API-based communication is vital to delivering value in all aspects of a microservice architecture. Explore their relationship in this short introductory ebook.

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Microservice Architecture: Aligning Principles, Practices, and Culture

An award-winning, full-length ebook from O'Reilly and the API Academy that explains how microservices work, and what it means to build an application the microservices way.

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Securing Microservice APIs: Sustainable and Scalable Access Control

This essential ebook for technical practitioners proposes an API access control model that can be implemented to provide cohesive security over a network of microservices.

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API Design Education

For over a decade, we’ve provided thought leadership to global organizations on designing APIs, implementing API security, and modernizing mission-critical systems with continuous API management and microservices.

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API Architecture Best Practices

We offer practical, field-tested guidance on how to use microservices and APIs to create service mesh patterns that optimize the security and scalability of multi-cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premise IT infrastructures.

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API Briefings for Executives

New 5G and IoT applications will demand unprecedented levels of API performance, security, and governance. Ask us how your peers are integrating APIs and Digital BizOps to get ready for the coming revolution.

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