The API Lifecycle · An Agile Process for Managing the Life of an API by Doerrfeld, Bill -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Preface Envisioning The Entire API Lifecycle

#1: Analysis Stage #2: Development Stage #3: Operations Stage #4: Retirement Stage Choose Your Adventure:

I Analysis Stage

1. Preparing Your API Business Strategy

1.1 Basic Things to Consider 1.2 Determine If An API Is Right For Your Specific Situation 1.3 Perform Market Research 1.4 Align Your API With Business Objectives 1.5 Select Your API Business Plan

2. Monetization Models

3. Understandig Your Target API Consumer

3.1 A Response to Increased Consumer Diversity 3.2 Why Create a Developer “Persona”? 3.3 The Developer Brain 3.4 But Plenty of Other People Are Interested in APIs, Too! 3.5 Expanding our Portal: End User Evangelism 3.6 Varying Industry Backgrounds 3.7 API Use Cases 3.8 Lessen The Corporate Branding 3.9 Developer Experience 3.10 Build it And They Will _____

II Development Stage

4. Constructing Your API

4.1 Things to Consider During Implementation 4.2 API Management 4.3 Maintenance

5. 12 Design Tips

5.1 Summarizing API Design Tips

III Operations Stage

6. Marketing Your API

6.1 Running Your API As a Product 6.2 Marketing Your API 6.3 Using Different Traction Channels 6.4 Supporting Your API

7. The Importance of API Metrics

7.1 What Is Metric Analysis? 7.2 Metric Analysis Tools and Services 7.3 Example — The Tokyo Traffic Problem 7.4 The Traffic Problem Solution 7.5 The Traffic Problem and APIs 7.6 Metrics Throughout the Lifecycle 7.7 A Real-World Failure - Heartbleed 7.8 A Real-World Success - The FedEx ShipAPI 7.9 Security, Effectiveness, and Commerce

IV Retirement Stage

8. A History of Major Public API Retirements

9. Preparing For a Deprecation

9.1 Rippling Effects 9.2 Preparing For Developer Reaction

V The Agile Mindset

10. What Makes an Agile API?

10.1 What is Agile? 10.2 Conclusion

11. Third Party Tools Nordic APIs Resources Endnotes