An API strategy is about aligning APIs to meet business goals, what technology to use for building secure and scalable APIs, and how to build an engaging ecosystem and grow it with partners and developers using the APIs. Having an API strategy is necessary to reap the business benefits of APIs. This chapter looks at the need for an API strategy, the essential components of an effective API strategy, how to align it to the business objectives, and finally, an approach to build a string API strategy from scratch. ...
13. Building an Effective API Strategy
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