Enterprise API Management

Customer life cycle

This life cycle defines, at a high level, key activities that are carried out by application developers when implementing functionality within their applications that require calling APIs. This flow is important as it steps away from the details of designing and implementing an API; rather, it looks at the implementation and usability aspects of an API from the point of view of its consumers.

Figure 7.13: The customer life cycle

Note that although the flow indicates that the cycle starts once an API has been promoted, in practice, the promoted API does not necessarily have to be an actual service but can be a service mock, ...