API Economy 101
API Economy 101

Author: Jarkko Moilanen

Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand

Published: 2019-02-14

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 9528008496

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API is technology and digital product used for artificial intelligence, platform economy, and internet. It has the capability to change business models dramatically. APIs (application programming interfaces) are becoming a major competitive factor for companies. This book takes on the fundamental questions of API Economy and approaches the subject pragmatically and clearly without technical jargon. The book clarifies the birth and shape of the API Economy with numerous practical examples. This is the first API Economy book based on scientific references. Originally this popular book was written in Finnish. It is a great start for students and advanced professionals alike. After reading this book, you will understand what it is all about and how to move forward and grow your business with APIs. The authors are leading Finnish API-experts with an abundance of experience from API and platform economy as authors, researchers, and lecturers and consultants.

Principles of Web API Design
Principles of Web API Design

Author: James Higginbotham

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Published: 2021-12-08

Total Pages: 485

ISBN-13: 0137355734

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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. Register your book for convenient access to downloads, updates, and/or corrections as they become available. See inside book for details.

Business of APIs
Business of APIs

Author: Kin Lane

Publisher: Original Web Solutions

Published: 2011-04-28

Total Pages: 53

ISBN-13: 1461113881

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In recent years, API adoption has exploded among developers, for reasons that this book will examine. But the purpose of this book is not to discuss how to deliver an API but to rather how to scale the business side to meet this rising developer demand. Written by someone with an engineering and a business background, The Business of APIs also aims to bridge the technical and the business aspects of API development.This book serves to help people understand what APIs are, who uses them, and the different types of APIs that are available. As the title suggests, this is a business-oriented book. Nonetheless it does seek to educate users about what types of technologies go into popular Web APIs. The book also surveys the history of modern Web APIs and examines how they've been used successfully.If you are considering launching an API, this book should help you understand the common stumbling blocks that have been faced by many API owners -- then hopefully you can avoid them. The book will also identify common building blocks used by API owners, building blocks that should be fundamental for your API planning and development.The Business of APIs highlights what it takes to be successful in providing quality Web APIs and points to some of the innovative steps new businesses are taking with their APIs -- all in an effort to build vibrant API ecosystems and healthy businesses.

Automating API Delivery
Automating API Delivery

Author: Ikenna Nwaiwu

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2024-07-30

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 1638355525

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Improve speed, quality, AND cost by automating your API delivery process! Automating API Delivery shows you how to strike the perfect balance between speed and usability by applying DevOps automation principles to your API design and delivery process. It lays out a clear path to making both the organizational and technical changes you need to deliver high-quality APIs both rapidly and reliably. In Automating API Delivery you’ll learn how to: Enforce API design standards with linting Automate breaking-change checks to control design creep Ensure accuracy of API reference documents Centralize API definition consistency checks Automate API configuration deployment Conduct effective API design reviews Author Ikenna Nwaiwu provides comprehensive guidance on implementing APIOps in your organization. He carefully walks through the technical steps and introduces the essential open-source tools, with practical advice and insights from his years of experience. You’ll benefit from his personal tips for avoiding common pitfalls and challenges of moving to automated API delivery. Foreword by Melissa van der Hecht. About the technology Create high quality, consistent, and fast-to-market APIs by automating the development process! This innovative book shows you how to apply established Continuous Delivery and DevOps principles along the whole API lifecycle, transforming a collection of individual tasks into a smooth, manageable pipeline that supports automated testing, iterative improvement, and reliable documentation. About the book Automating API Delivery introduces the tools and strategies behind APIOps. You’ll discover tools and process improvements that give you important quick wins, including API governance using the Spectral API linter and establishing an efficient CI/CD pipeline with GitHub Actions. You’ll even discover how to use the powerful OpenAPI Generator to automatically create client and server code from your API definitions. What's inside Check for breaking changes with oasdiff Create SDKs using OpenAPI Generator Maintain accurate documentation with API conformance tests Deploy API gateway configuration with GitOps About the reader Experience building RESTful APIs required. About the author Ikenna Nwaiwu is Principal Consultant at Ikenna Consulting, specializing in automating API governance. The technical editor on this book was Marjukka Niinioja. Table of Contents 1 What is APIOps? 2 Leaning into APIOps: Problem-solving and leading improvements 3 API linting: Automating API consistency 4 Breaking change checks: Managing API evolution 5 API design review: Checking for what you cannot automate 6 API conformance: Generating code and API definitions 7 API conformance: Schema testing 8 CI/CD for API artifacts 1: Source-stage governance controls 9 CI/CD for API artifacts 2: Build-stage and API configuration deployment 10 More on API consistency: Custom linting and security checks 11 Monitoring and analytics: Measuring API product metrics Appendixes A Value stream mapping icons B Installing API linting and OpenAPI diff tools C Introduction to JSON Pointer D Tools for API conformance and analytics E Docker and Kubernetes

Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops
Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming – Workshops

Author: Maria Paasivaara

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-09-23

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 3030588580

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This open access book constitutes the 6 research workshops, the Agile Education and Training Track, the Doctoral Symposium, as well as a panel presented at XP 2020, the 21st International Conference on Agile Software Development, which was held during June 8-12, 2020. The conference was planned to take place at the IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. Due to the COVID 19 pandemic, the conference was held online. In 2020, the following six workshops took place: Third International Workshop on Software-Intensive Business Eighth International Workshop on Large-Scale Agile Development Second European Symposium on Serverless Computing and Applications Second International Workshop on Agile Transformation First International Workshop on Agility with Microservices Programming Third International Workshop on Autonomous Agile Teams XP is the premier agile software development conference combining research and practice. It is a unique forum where agile researchers, practitioners, thought leaders, coaches, and trainers get together to present and discuss their most recent innovations, research results, experiences, concerns, challenges, and trends. XP conferences provide an informal environment to learn and trigger discussions and welcome both people new to agile and seasoned agile practitioners. The 31 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from overall 79 submissions. In addition to the 26 workshop papers, this volume also includes 2 papers from the Agile Education and Training Track and 3 papers from the Doctoral Symposium. Furthermore, the book contains a summary of a panel discussion with the topic “Covid-19’s Influence on the Future of Agile”.

Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction
Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Robert C. Allen

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2011-09-15

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 019162053X

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Why are some countries rich and others poor? In 1500, the income differences were small, but they have grown dramatically since Columbus reached America. Since then, the interplay between geography, globalization, technological change, and economic policy has determined the wealth and poverty of nations. The industrial revolution was Britain's path breaking response to the challenge of globalization. Western Europe and North America joined Britain to form a club of rich nations by pursuing four polices-creating a national market by abolishing internal tariffs and investing in transportation, erecting an external tariff to protect their fledgling industries from British competition, banks to stabilize the currency and mobilize domestic savings for investment, and mass education to prepare people for industrial work. Together these countries pioneered new technologies that have made them ever richer. Before the Industrial Revolution, most of the world's manufacturing was done in Asia, but industries from Casablanca to Canton were destroyed by western competition in the nineteenth century, and Asia was transformed into 'underdeveloped countries' specializing in agriculture. The spread of economic development has been slow since modern technology was invented to fit the needs of rich countries and is ill adapted to the economic and geographical conditions of poor countries. A few countries - Japan, Soviet Russia, South Korea, Taiwan, and perhaps China - have, nonetheless, caught up with the West through creative responses to the technological challenge and with Big Push industrialization that has achieved rapid growth through investment coordination. Whether other countries can emulate the success of East Asia is a challenge for the future. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

Economics: The User's Guide
Economics: The User's Guide

Author: Ha-Joon Chang

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2015-10-20

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1620408147

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From the internationally bestselling author and prizewinning economist--a highly original guide to the global economy. In his bestselling 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism, Cambridge economist Ha-Joon Chang brilliantly debunked many of the predominant myths of neoclassical economics. Now, in an entertaining and accessible primer, he explains how the global economy actually works--in real-world terms. Writing with irreverent wit, a deep knowledge of history, and a disregard for conventional economic pieties, Chang offers insights that will never be found in the textbooks. Unlike many economists, who present only one view of their discipline, Chang introduces a wide range of economic theories, from classical to Keynesian, revealing how each has its strengths and weaknesses, and why there is no one way to explain economic behavior. Instead, by ignoring the received wisdom and exposing the myriad forces that shape our financial world, Chang gives us the tools we need to understand our increasingly global and interconnected world often driven by economics. From the future of the Euro, inequality in China, or the condition of the American manufacturing industry here in the United States--Economics: The User’s Guide is a concise and expertly crafted guide to economic fundamentals that offers a clear and accurate picture of the global economy and how and why it affects our daily lives.

The End of Oil
The End of Oil

Author: Paul Roberts

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 2005-04-05

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0547525117

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“A stunning piece of work—perhaps the best single book ever produced about our energy economy and its environmental implications” (Bill McHibbon, The New York Review of Books). Petroleum is so deeply entrenched in our economy, politics, and daily lives that even modest efforts to phase it out are fought tooth and nail. Companies and governments depend on oil revenues. Developing nations see oil as their only means to industrial success. And the Western middle class refuses to modify its energy-dependent lifestyle. But even by conservative estimates, we will have burned through most of the world’s accessible oil within mere decades. What will we use in its place to maintain a global economy and political system that are entirely reliant on cheap, readily available energy? In The End of Oil, journalist Paul Roberts talks to both oil optimists and pessimists around the world. He delves deep into the economics and politics, considers the promises and pitfalls of oil alternatives, and shows that—even though the world energy system has begun its epochal transition—we need to take a more proactive stance to avoid catastrophic disruption and dislocation.

Continuous API Management
Continuous API Management

Author: Mehdi Medjaoui

Publisher: O'Reilly Media

Published: 2018-11-14

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 1492043524

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A lot of work is required to release an API, but the effort doesn’t always pay off. Overplanning before an API matures is a wasted investment, while underplanning can lead to disaster. This practical guide provides maturity models for individual APIs and multi-API landscapes to help you invest the right human and company resources for the right maturity level at the right time. How do you balance the desire for agility and speed with the need for robust and scalable operations? Four experts from the API Academy show software architects, program directors, and product owners how to maximize the value of their APIs by managing them as products through a continuous life cycle. Learn which API decisions you need to govern and how and where to do so Design, deploy, and manage APIs using an API-as-a-product (AaaP) approach Examine ten pillars that form the foundation of API product work Learn how the continuous improvement model governs changes throughout an API’s lifetime Explore the five stages of a complete API product life cycle Delve into team roles needed to design, build, and maintain your APIs Learn how to manage your API landscape—the set of APIs published by your organization

Practical API Architecture and Development with Azure and AWS
Practical API Architecture and Development with Azure and AWS

Author: Thurupathan Vijayakumar

Publisher: Apress

Published: 2018-06-20

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 148423555X

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Learn the business and technical importance of API design and architecture using the available cloud services from Azure and AWS. This book starts off with an introduction to APIs and the concept of API Economy from a business and organizational perspective. You'll decide on a sustainable API strategy and API architecture based on different case scenarios. You'll then look at actual examples on API development guidelines, providing a practical view and approach towards the API development and aligning teams in API development. This book walks you through the API gateway services available in Azure and AWS and reviews different approaches to API Security. This will prepare you for understanding the trade-off between security and the frictionless API experience. What You'll Learn Implement API Gateways to streamline API Development Examine Security Mapping with API gateways from Azure and AWS Apply API implementation using Serverless architecture Review evolving APIs for monitoring and changing business requirements Use code samples in API security implementations Who This Book Is For Developers and architects with .NET and web development experience who want to learn about API design.