Episode 96
It’s been a while, but I’m back with the next installment of API design series. Today we will step away a bit from technicalities and jump into the business perspective. After all, API is a product and needs to be treated as such. As we discussed one year ago in the first chapter of our journey, API is for developers as a graphical user interface is to regular software users. It’s a gateway to business value. And there are quite a lot of issues going around the product to think about and to be aware of.
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API management is a process of creating, publishing, enforcing usage policies, taking care of subscribers, analyzing the traffic and monetizing our product. API is as successful as developers who build upon it. Much of API management effort is directed towards empowering developers that use the API and simplify their work as much as possible. Some aspects of API management are more technical than others and with the rise of API management platforms this tendency increases, as more features are delegated to the platform. We will focus on Read the rest of this entry »
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