Design and Build Great Web APIs

About the BigCo, Inc., Sample Project

In this book, we’ll be helping a fictional company (BigCo, Inc.) modernize its process of bringing on new customers by designing, building, and deploying a brand-new API called the “Onboarding API.” The company’s onboarding process is still handled mostly by humans filling in forms and then adding data to several stand-alone applications running in the company’s network. Our job will be to learn how BigCo currently handles this customer onboarding process, convert that into an API design, and then—using existing services already in place—implement a single onboarding API that handles all the steps currently handled by BigCo staff.

Along the way, we’ll look at the basics of API design and how to produce ...