API Strategy for Decision Makers

API Strategy for Decision Makers

by Mike Amundsen, Derric Gilling
Released July 2022
Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
ISBN: 9781492096788

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Book description

API Strategy for Decision Makers provides actionable best practices for building winning API products. Whether you're with an API-first company or with an existing enterprise software company looking to expand your API offerings, this report shows you how to grow your API product into a center of revenue and metrics to measure against.

Authors Mike Amundsen and Derric Gilling draw on real-life examples to guide you through the important considerations for successfully developing and executing on your API strategy. By identifying winning business cases, sharing best practices for adoption and monetization, and showing you how to create a great API experience, this report presents a detailed overview for every C-suite executive and product owner managing an API platform.

With this report, you'll:

  • Learn how to apply common product management techniques to better manage your APIs as products
  • Discover how to define a strategy from initial adoption, monetization, and deprecation of your APIs
  • Determine how to position your API products in your company's portfolio as well as the wider market
  • Dig deep into the step-by-step process of making your API strategy come to life
  • Explore the power of API observability, monitoring, and analytics as a means to quantify, track, and optimize your API strategy

Product information

  • Title: API Strategy for Decision Makers
  • Author(s): Mike Amundsen, Derric Gilling
  • Release date: July 2022
  • Publisher(s): O'Reilly Media, Inc.
  • ISBN: 9781492096788