How This Book Is Organized
The book is organized into five parts: Getting Started, The Design Phase, The Build Phase, The Release Phase, and Appendixes. Each part marks a key set of skills in the journey from thinking about APIs to actually getting them up and running in production. The following is a quick summary of each of the five parts of the book.
Part I: Getting Started
The first part helps set the foundation for the world of APIs on the web. We first explore what it means to adopt an âAPI-Firstâ approach to designing and building APIs. We then get some background on the existing services weâll be working with and our plan for implementing an API requested by a fictitious customer, BigCo, Inc.
In the second chapter, we spend time ...
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