Exploring APIs with curl

In this book we’ll be helping a fictional company (BigCo, Inc.) design, build, and deploy a brand-new API called the Onboarding API. This API will be used to streamline the onboarding of new customers (called companies at BigCo). True to the API-First design ethos, we’ll only be building the API and not spending time writing the services behind the API. The good news is that the services we need to power our Onboarding API already exist at BigCo; we just need to take some time to get familiar with them and then we’ll be ready to start the work of designing, building, and releasing our API into the wild.

Like any major company, BigCo has lots of services up and running at the company. We’ll only be focusing on ...

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