Continuous API Product Management
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Claim: APIs must be managed as products, not as IT support, with a concrete checklist of 10 pillars (strategy, design, docs, development, testing, deployment, security, monitoring, discovery, change). Examples and prescriptions include using OpenAPI/Swagger as a single source of truth, integrating API tests into CI/CD, deploying via service mesh or serverless, and adopting OAuth2/OpenID or FAPI for auth. Cited evidence: Stripe valued higher than a top European bank, Twilio as an API business model, BBVA’s portal bundles APIs into product categories, and an API Landscape of 1000 tools is published.
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chapters (23)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:33Two business models
- 1:26What is an API
- 3:08APIs are components
- 3:31API product pillars
- 3:59API product strategy
- 5:51APIs as only product
- 6:28API economy
- 6:47Strategy
- 8:00Design
- 9:27The 4 Levels of API Design
- 10:35Documentation
- 13:15Stripe Documentation
- 14:09Development
- 14:56Testing
- 15:54Deployment
- 17:14Security
- 18:26Monitoring
- 19:15Performance
- 19:38Discovery
- 20:57API Discovery
- 21:18API is a Product
- 21:40Apis
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