APIs 101

I completed eleven parts series called “APIs 101” by David Berlind who is the Editor Chief at www.programmableweb.com and presented by MuleSoft. This course gave me a beginner to an intermediary understanding of below concepts: • Part 1, 2: What exactly is an API, and how do they work? APIs are like user interfaces, but they just have a different user: a machine or some software. Understanding the different types of APIs, architectural styles, and scope of APIs. • What is the role of the provider and consumer of API? • Part 3: How does API Flexibility help me? Why should I invest in an API program? • Part 4: The contract is what produces a significant amount of flexibility in API-driven organizations. • Part 5: How the proliferation of APIs has created an anything-to-anything world that is often viewed as the "API Economy". • Part 6: Differences between all these API types? • Part 7: How can APIs drive business? Digital Transformation is one of the key reasons to migrate an organization's structure to one of API-driven services. Organizations get a competitive advantage if they transform the business into Service Oriented Infrastructure (SOI). • Part 8: How do I productize APIs? • Part 9: How do I secure APIs? Why be vigilant about API security? • What are some weak points of API maybe? • What is the API lifecycle and why it is important? • Part 10: Why is API-first design important? • Part 11: How to build and consume an API using RESTful API Model Language (RAML)? The length of the series is 4.0 total hours. You can find this series at https://www.youtube.com/c/programmableweb