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API Traffic Management 101
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API Traffic Management 101

by Mike Amundsen
December 2019
Intermediate to advanced
78 pages
1h 50m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Preface

Welcome to API Traffic Management 101!

The aim of this short book is to introduce the general themes, challenges, and opportunities in the world of managing API traffic. Most of the examples and recommendations come from my own experience (or that of colleagues) while working with customers, ranging from small local startups to global enterprises.

Who Should Read This Book

This book is for those just getting started in API traffic management as well as those who have experience and want to review the basics and take your work to the next level. Developers who are responsible for creating and maintaining APIs will learn how network admins and those charged with enabling API traffic collection identify and track key API activity. And admins who design and maintain API traffic metrics can learn how to align and enrich traffic collection to support and inform API developers.

And you don’t need to be a traffic management practitioner to extract value from this book. I also spend time focusing on the business value of good API traffic practice, including the ability to connect your organization’s business goals and internal progress measurements with the useful traffic monitoring, reporting, and analysis.

How to Get the Most from This Book

I’ve included ways in which you can adopt well-known engineering principles from DevOps and Agile practice as a way to add rigor and consistency to your API traffic program. That includes references to test automation, continuous delivery ...

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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781492056393