API Driven Architecture

Learn how to implement a winning API program using the correct API architecture for your business
About This Book
* Learn the API architecture patterns and their characteristics
* Link the business and technical architectures of API
* Apply your knowledge to design and implement an innovative API program for your organization
Who This Book Is For
This book is aimed at API architects, enterprise architects and anyone who wants to build a successful API program. Knowledge on API concepts, distributed computing and network interactions are assumed.
What You Will Learn
* Understand the modern digital needs, digital enterprise and digital architecture.
* Role of the APIs in the digital transformation.
* Business architecture of the APIs.
* Understanding the technical architecture of the APIs
* Solution architecture
* Security architecture
* Deployment architecture
* Runtime architecture
* How architecture supports for the life-cycle of the APIs
* How an organization become decomposable with APIs
* Architecture approach for a winning API program.
* Reference architectures and patterns of API architectures
In Detail
APIs play a significant role in the digital transformation. Therefore, having a solid API architecture is vital for an enterprise. Architects today are struggling to pick the correct API architecture for their enterprises. Defining a pragmatic model based on successful implementation done in the industry is the main objective of this book.
APIs are tightly coupled with the business needs than the technical needs of an organization. This book helps you understand the role of the APIs in digital transformation, business architecture of the APIs, and technical architecture patterns of the APIs. It also helps you in understanding the complete life-cycle of an API. How the architecture involves in non-functional aspects such as security, reliability, high-availability and scalability to have a winning API program are some of the other areas covered in this book. In summary planning, implementing and improving your APIs are the primary structure of this book. This book provides in-depth guidelines, best practices, and many reference architectures to apply in your projects.