The Full-Lifecycle Guide to API Design
Principles of Web API Design brings together principles and
processes to help you succeed across the entire API design lifecycle.
Drawing on extensive in-the-trenches experience, leading consultant
James Higginbotham helps you align every stakeholder on specific
outcomes, design APIs that deliver value, and scale the design process
from small teams to the entire organization.
Higginbotham helps you bring an "outside-in" perspective to API design
to reflect the voices of customers and product teams, map requirements
to specific and well-organized APIs, and choose the right API style for
writing them. He walks through a real-world example from the ground up,
offering guidance for anyone designing new APIs or extending existing
APIs.
- Deliver great APIs by getting your design processes right
- Gain agreement on specific outcomes from design teams, customers, and
other stakeholders
- Craft job stories, conduct EventStorming, and model capabilities
- Identify the right APIs, and organize operations into coherent API
profiles
- Choose the best styles for each project: REST, gRPC, GraphQL, or
event-based async APIs
- Refine designs based on feedback from documenters, testers, and
customers
- Decompose APIs into microservices
- Mature your API program, implementing design and management processes
that scale
This guide is invaluable for anyone involved in planning or building
APIs--architects, developers, team leaders, managers in single and
multi-team environments, and any technical or business professional
delivering "API-as-a-product" offerings.
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