
Enterprise API Management
Design and deliver valuable business APIs
Packt Publishing
Published on 23. July 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
300 pages
978-1-78728-443-2 (ISBN)
Description
A strategy and implementation guide for building, deploying, and managing APIs
Key Features
Comprehensive, end-to-end guide to business-driven enterprise APIs
Distills years of experience with API and microservice strategies
Provides detailed guidance on implementing API-led architectures in any business
Book DescriptionAPIs are the cornerstone of modern, agile enterprise systems. They enable access to enterprise services from a wide variety of devices, act as a platform for innovation, and open completely new revenue streams.
Enterprise API Management shows how to define the right architecture, implement the right patterns, and define the right organization model for business-driven APIs.
Drawing on his experience of developing API and microservice strategies for some of the world's largest companies, Luis Weir explains how APIs deliver value across an enterprise. The book explores the architectural decisions, implementation patterns, and management practices for successful enterprise APIs, as well as providing clear, actionable advice on choosing and executing the right API strategy in your enterprise.
With a relentless focus on creating business value, Luis Weir reveals an effective method for planning, building, and running business products and services with APIs.What you will learn
Create API strategies to deliver business value
Monetize APIs, promoting them through public marketplaces and directories
Develop API-led architectures, applying best practice architecture patterns
Choose between REST, GraphQL, and gRPC-style API architectures
Manage APIs and microservices through the complete life cycle
Deploy APIs and business products, as well as Target Operating Models
Lead product-based organizations to embrace DevOps and focus on delivering business capabilities
Who this book is forArchitects, developers, and technology executives who want to deliver successful API strategies that bring business value.
Key Features
Comprehensive, end-to-end guide to business-driven enterprise APIs
Distills years of experience with API and microservice strategies
Provides detailed guidance on implementing API-led architectures in any business
Book DescriptionAPIs are the cornerstone of modern, agile enterprise systems. They enable access to enterprise services from a wide variety of devices, act as a platform for innovation, and open completely new revenue streams.
Enterprise API Management shows how to define the right architecture, implement the right patterns, and define the right organization model for business-driven APIs.
Drawing on his experience of developing API and microservice strategies for some of the world's largest companies, Luis Weir explains how APIs deliver value across an enterprise. The book explores the architectural decisions, implementation patterns, and management practices for successful enterprise APIs, as well as providing clear, actionable advice on choosing and executing the right API strategy in your enterprise.
With a relentless focus on creating business value, Luis Weir reveals an effective method for planning, building, and running business products and services with APIs.What you will learn
Create API strategies to deliver business value
Monetize APIs, promoting them through public marketplaces and directories
Develop API-led architectures, applying best practice architecture patterns
Choose between REST, GraphQL, and gRPC-style API architectures
Manage APIs and microservices through the complete life cycle
Deploy APIs and business products, as well as Target Operating Models
Lead product-based organizations to embrace DevOps and focus on delivering business capabilities
Who this book is forArchitects, developers, and technology executives who want to deliver successful API strategies that bring business value.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Birmingham
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
557 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78728-443-2 (9781787284432)
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Additional editions

Luis Weir | Rolando Carrasco | Philip Wilkins
Enterprise API Management
Design and deliver valuable business APIs
E-Book
06/2024
1st Edition
Packt Publishing Limited
€45.99
Available for download
Persons
Luis Augusto Weir is a Director of Software Development at Oracle and a former Chief Architect at Capgemini, Oracle Ace Director and Oracle Groundbreaker Ambassador. An API management and microservices evangelist, Luis has over 17 years of experience implementing complex distributed systems around the world.Co-author of 3 other books as well as numerous articles and white papers, Luis has been a frequent speaker frequent speaker at known events such as CodeOne, Devoxx, Gartner AAD&I, Oracle OpenWorld, Java2Days and many user groups and meetups.Luis holds an MS in Corporate Networks and Systems Integration from the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia (UPV) and a BS in Electronics Engineering from the Universidad Nueva Esparta. Rolando Carrasco is a Fusion Middleware director for S&P Solutions, a consulting firm focused in Oracle Fusion Middleware. Rolando has been working with Oracle Middleware for more than 13 years. Since the old days of Oracle AS, Oracle Interconnect, he's been working with Oracle Integration Products. Rolando is an Oracle ACE and also one of the leaders/coordinators of the Oracle Users GroupORAMEXin Mexico. Rolando has been implementing SOA with major companies of the telecom, finance, manufacturing, and retail industry for a long time. He has also been guiding them in governing their SOA implementation. Rolando has strong presentation skills that have helped him to present at different forums throughout Latin America. He's been a constant speaker at the Oracle Technology Tour Latin America. His blog is one of the most read in the Spanish-speaking community (http://oracleradio.blogspot.in/). He is a constant contributor in the OTN in Spanish section of Oracle.com. Together with Arturo Viveros, he is a creator of the SOA myth busters' blogs (https://soamythbusters.wordpress.com/). Rolando worked for Oracle from 2002 to 2010. From 2005 to 2010, he worked for Oracle Corporation as a part of the outbound product management team for Fusion Middleware. His background is a mix of presales, consulting, and product management. He's been working with XML, web services, SOA, and Integration technologies since 2000. During the past 2-3 years, Rolando has been focused on cloud technology and the concepts of API Management. Those are the two topics where he has found a new interest, and they are pretty much related with his strong SOA background. Phil Wilkins has spent over 25 years in the software industry with a breadth of experience in different businesses and environments from multinationals to software start-ups and customer organizations including a global optical and auditory healthcare provider.
Content
Table of Contents
The Business Value of APIs
The Evolution of API Platforms
Business-Led API Strategy
API-Led Architectures
API-Led Architecture Patterns
Modern API Architectural Styles
API Life Cycle
API Products' Target Operating Model
The Business Value of APIs
The Evolution of API Platforms
Business-Led API Strategy
API-Led Architectures
API-Led Architecture Patterns
Modern API Architectural Styles
API Life Cycle
API Products' Target Operating Model