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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.
This book is being written and released using a lean methodology. As such, new content and updates will be released incrementally. By purchasing this book now, you get in at a lower price and receive updates whenever they become available.
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
James Higginbotham has over 15 years of experience and has architected, built, and deployed software products for both Fortune 500 companies and early-stage startups. He combines his love of software with a focus on the product experience to create a balance between the complexity of scalability and ease of use.
His experience with both startups and the Fortune 500 provides deep insight into accelerating product development at any scale. James has delivered a wide variety of solutions for the healthcare, commercial insurance, non-profit, and airline industries. His solutions include software-as-a-service, supply chain management, and building multi-sided marketplace solutions.
James has deployed to the public cloud and internal data centers. His goal is to design and build software that balances the complexity of scalability and distributed computing with the ease of a modular, testable codebase. He believes that APIs should be designed to solve problems based on the workflows of the industry while providing a great developer experience.
He is the founder of an Austin-based services company that focuses on API design, development, and cloud infrastructure.