API Platform Survival Guide
API Platform Survival Guide
Aligning Business and IT Practices for Enterprise Composability
About the Book
APIs are an essential capability that goes beyond IT concerns. While the choice of programming language, framework, database, or cloud vendor is considered a behind-the-scenes implementation detail, APIs have a direct impact on millions of app users and developers. APIs should involve both business and IT representatives to properly blend your organization's business capabilities with proper API design and delivery practices. This book shows you how to improve your API platform to blend both your business and IT capabilities, resulting in a more effective and reusable enterprise API platform.
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Below is the current working outline, with percentages of completion next to each section:
Introduction
Part I: Aligning API Platforms to Business Value (70% Complete)
Chapter 1: The Value of an Enterprise API Platform
Chapter 2: API Platforms as Business Capability Enablers
Chapter 3: Case Study of a Financial Services API Platform
Chapter 4: Developing an API Platform Mindset
Chapter 5: Planning Your API Platform Journey
Part II: The API Platform Roadmap - 0% Complete
Chapter 6: Establishing Your API Platform Strategy
Chapter 7: Identifying Your Digital Ecosystems
Chapter 8: API Platform Operating Models
Chapter 9: Overcoming Challenges of an API Platform
Chapter 10: Establishing API Platform Governance
Chapter 11: Assessing Your API Platform Maturity
Part III: Building and Operating the API Platform - 0% Complete
Chapter 12: Pillars of the API Platform
Chapter 13: Portfolio Management for APIs
Chapter 14: Roles and Responsibilities
Chapter 15: Developer Enablement and Platform Engineering
Chapter 16: The Platform Design Process (PDP)
Part IV: The API Platform Lifecycle - 0% Complete
Chapter 16: Aligning Platform APIs to Business Using ADDR
Chapter 17: Delivering and Publishing APIs
Chapter 18: Platform API Testing Strategies
Chapter 19: Managing Platform APIs
Chapter 20: Defining Metrics and KPIs
Chapter 21: Deprecation and Sunsetting
Part V: AI Readiness for API Platforms - 0% Complete
Chapter 22: Assessing Your API Platform's AI Readiness
Chapter 23: Preparing Your API Platform for AI Enablement
Chapter 24: AI-Assisted API Design with ADDR
Chapter 25: Agent-based API Consumption Using Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Conclusion
About the Author
Table of Contents
- About This Book
- Book Structure
- Why LeanPub?
- Submitting Feedback
- Introduction
- Part I: Aligning API Platforms to Business Value (70% Complete)
- Chapter 1: The Value of an Enterprise API Platform (80% Complete)
- Platforms, Platforms, Everywhere
- API Platforms Require a Cultural Shift
- Case Study: A Global Hospitality API Platform
- Digital Transformation Lost Its Way
- Signs of an Ineffective Digital Transformation
- Blending Business and IT into an API Platform
- Toward the Composable Enterprise
- Chapter 2: API Platforms as Business Capability Enablers
- API Platforms Blend Business and IT Capabilities
- Business Capabilities are the Foundation of Enterprise APIs
- IT Capabilities: The Tail Wagging the Dog
- Platform Capabilities: Connecting Business Architecture to APIs
- API Platforms Support Digital Ecosystems
- Shifting to a Business-Aligned API Platform
- Chapter 3: Case Study of a Financial Services API Platform
- The Visa API Platform
- Visa’s Digital Ecosystem
- Visa’s Business Capabilities
- Visa’s Platform Capabilities
- API Platforms Must Align with Business Architecture
- Realizing the Composable Enterprise
- Chapter 4: Developing an API Platform Mindset
- From Integration-Centric to Capability-Centric APIs
- Shifting to an API Platform Mindset
- An API Platform Mindset Starts with Business Architecture
- The Advantages of an API Platform Mindset
- About This Book
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