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

About Mike Amundsen

An internationally known author and speaker, Mike Amundsen travels the world consulting and talking about network architecture, Web development, and the intersection of technology and society. He works with companies large and small to help them capitalize on the opportunities APIs, Microservices, and Digital Transformation present for both consumers and the enterprise.

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