Design and Build Great Web APIs

This session covers key skills for creating consistently successful APIs and simple tools that you can use to turn those skills into working models, sketches, and running code.

Based on the book “Design and Build Great APIs”, this presentation shows the important balance between designing, building, and releasing APIs and how to create a consistent process for your company that ensures your API teams produce quality APIs that developers can easily use to provide timely business solutions for your organization.

You'll learn now to:

  Write API stories

  Diagram APIs with Web Sequence Diagrams

  Describe APIs with ALPS Profiles

  Generate multiple working API Sketches with API Blueprint

  Select a candidate sketch to Prototype with OpenAPISpec

  Build a fully-functional API using NodeJS, Express, and the DARRT framework

  Test APIs with Postman and Newman

  Deploy your API to production