API Design and Fundamentals of Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform

This course is part of Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform Specialization

Instructor: Google Cloud Training

What you'll learn

Explore and put into practice API design, development and management concepts.
Describe the fundamentals of REST API design.
Describe API products, API product strategies, and how to publish APIs to a developer portal.
Describe Apigee terminology and organizational model based on Apigee product capabilities.

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There are 5 modules in this course

In this course, you learn how to design APIs, and how to use OpenAPI specifications to document them. You learn about the API life cycle, and how the Apigee API platform helps you manage all aspects of the life cycle. You learn about how APIs can be designed using API proxies, and how APIs are packaged as API products to be used by app developers.

Welcome to API Design and Fundamentals! This is the first course in the Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform series.

What's included

2 videos

This module introduces the Apigee platform, API management, and the API lifecycle.

What's included

5 videos1 assignment

This module introduces the basic concepts of REST API design, API first development, and OpenAPI specifications

What's included

6 videos1 assignment

This module introduces API proxies, proxy and target endpoints, environment groups, route rules, target servers, conditions, flows, and policies

What's included

11 videos2 readings1 assignment3 app items

11 videosTotal 52 minutes

Module Overview0 minutesPreview module
Apigee API Proxies7 minutes
Lab Intro: Generating an API proxy using an OpenAPI spec1 minute
Getting Started with Google Cloud and Qwiklabs4 minutes
Proxy Endpoints and Environment Groups10 minutes
Conditions, Flows, and Policies (1)6 minutes
Conditions, Flows, and Policies (2)11 minutes
Target Endpoints, Route Rules, and Target Servers7 minutes
Lab Intro: Target Servers0 minutes
Lab Intro: Route Rules and the Trace Tool0 minutes
Module Review0 minutes

2 readingsTotal 20 minutes

Labs in this course10 minutes
REST clients10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 10 minutes

Module Quiz10 minutes

3 app itemsTotal 180 minutes

Lab 1: Generating an API proxy using an OpenAPI spec60 minutes
Lab 2: Target Servers60 minutes
Lab 2a: Route Rules and the Trace Tool60 minutes

This module introduces REST API response design, API products, app developers, apps, API keys, and API product strategies

What's included

9 videos1 reading1 assignment1 app item

9 videosTotal 41 minutes

Module Overview1 minutePreview module
API Products, Developers, Apps, and API Keys9 minutes
API Product Strategies (1)7 minutes
API Product Strategies (2)5 minutes
Lab Intro: API Products, Developers, Apps, and API Keys0 minutes
REST API Design, Part II: Responses (1)9 minutes
REST API Design, Part II: Responses (2)7 minutes
Module Review0 minutes
Course Review1 minute

1 readingTotal 10 minutes

How is Apigee X different from Apigee Edge?10 minutes

1 assignmentTotal 8 minutes

Module Quiz8 minutes

1 app itemTotal 60 minutes

Lab 3: API Products, Developers, Apps, and API Keys60 minutes

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Reviewed on Sep 9, 2019

This course was very important to me to improve my knowledge regarding APIs mainly for a system to build and maintain the APIs project!

Reviewed on May 27, 2018

Brief but to the point. Tells what API developers need to hear ( maybe listen) and gives enough pointers where to refer to the docs. A great starter course for APIGEE journey.

Reviewed on Feb 14, 2020

Muy bueno, la explicación es muy clara y especifica, mucha practica lo cual permite evidenciar lo aprendido. Recomendado ampliamente.

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