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What to Consider When Pricing Your API API University

It’s no secret that the API business is big business. Over $500m was pumped into API-driven firms just last year and that number is only likely to rise. But how do companies make money from an API and how should you price API usage to get the best return?

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Seamus Holland

API Strategy

1 day ago

How to Align Your Team Around Microservices API University

For a profession that stresses the importance of naming things well, we've done ourselves a disservice with microservices. The poor naming has led to misconceptions and misapplication of microservices by those hopping on the bandwagon, many times without deep understanding of its concepts.

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Roger Jin

Microservices, API Strategy

10-09-2017

Gauging API Success: Knowing What Metrics to Measure API University

Deciding what metrics matter depends on the overall strategy goals and business model that aligns with your APIs. This is why defining the business model was one of the first steps in your decision series. Now we need to make sure our evaluation framework matches back up to what we set out to do.

Analysis

Mark Boyd

API Strategy, Analytics, API Management

09-27-2017

The ABCs of Building API Developer Portals API University

Our series on getting the most ROI out of your API has looked at the business and technical decisions to make when building your API strategy. We've also made decisions around how to engage with developers and build a developer community. A key aspect to this involves creating a developer portal.

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Mark Boyd

API Strategy, API Education, Developer Relations

09-27-2017

How to Build Great API Developer Communities API University

Now that your API has been published and external developers are beginning to consume it, our focus shifts again towards a balance between business and technical issues. In this part of the series we take a look at how a business can leverage the technical API to grow a developer community?

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Mark Boyd

API Strategy, API Education, Developer Relations

09-27-2017

Best Practices and Tools for Documenting APIs API University

Congratulations, your API is now production ready. Next you will need to provide documentation to consumers so they can integrate the data and services you have exposed via API quickly. This part covers API documentation including the role of API specs and a number of available tools.

Analysis

Mark Boyd

API Strategy, API Design, API Management

09-27-2017

Understanding What it Takes to Secure Your API API University

At this point in your API journey, you have made a number of business decisions and a couple of technical ones. Now, several crucial decisions need to be made around security. Securing an API is an often neglected task, yet doing so is at the heart of an effective API strategy.

Analysis

Mark Boyd

Security, API Design, API Education

09-27-2017

How to Pick the Right Technology Stack to Provision Your API API University

With business decisions in place for your API strategy, we've moved on to some more technical issues, such as the reference and API architectures, and the choice of API specification formats. Now in this part, let's take a look at the range of API lifecycle tooling available.

Analysis

Mark Boyd

API Strategy, API Design

09-27-2017

How to Choose Architectural Styles and Specification Formats For Your APIs API University

The first few decisions around building an API strategy centered on the business components. With those in place, building the API is now possible. The API strategy moves to becoming more of a technical concern for several steps as you resolve API design, security, and API Ops.

Analysis

Mark Boyd

API Strategy, API Description Languages, API Design

09-27-2017

Why To Treat and Manage Your APIs as Products API University

As you go through the decisions involved in setting up the business side of managing an API, it becomes clear that you will need to treat the API as a product in order for it to succeed. But what does that mean and how do you do that? This part takes you through the things you need to consider.

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Mark Boyd

API Strategy, API Education, API Management

09-27-2017

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What to Consider When Pricing Your API API University

How to Align Your Team Around Microservices API University

Gauging API Success: Knowing What Metrics to Measure API University

The ABCs of Building API Developer Portals API University

How to Build Great API Developer Communities API University

Best Practices and Tools for Documenting APIs API University

Understanding What it Takes to Secure Your API API University

How to Pick the Right Technology Stack to Provision Your API API University

How to Choose Architectural Styles and Specification Formats For Your APIs API University

Why To Treat and Manage Your APIs as Products API University