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The Industry Authority for APIs and Microservices

The API Academy provides expertise and best practices for the strategy, architecture, design and security of enterprise-grade APIs and microservices. Our free API education and certification programs are now available!

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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

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The Push for Zero Trust

The Zero Trust model is founded on the belief that organizations should not automatically trust anything inside or outside its perimeters and must verify everything trying to connect to its resources before granting access—based on identity, trustworthiness, and context. This blog discusses the Zero Trust model and its components.

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Bill Oakes, CISSP September 13, 2021
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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APIs & Microservices from the API Academy

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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Cloud Architectures from the API Academy

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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