API team characteristics and best practices
summary
Argues that treating APIs as API-as-a-Product requires concrete roles (product owner, API lead, architect, backend, QA, DevOps, devrel, technical writer, front end) and explicit artifacts: onboarding flows that let a developer get something working in an hour, public documentation, demo apps, deployment pipelines and monitoring dashboards, testing and security plans, and OKRs/KPIs for usage. Describes the product lifecycle (inception → development → introduction → realization → maintenance → retirement), cites Stripe and Google as successful cases, and recommends measuring and iterating.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Start
- 3:50API-as-a-Product
- 5:28Design Thinking
- 6:12Customer Onboarding
- 9:28Work Domains
- 10:14Product Lifecycle
- 13:15Milestones
- 18:04Product Owner Product Manager
- 27:02Inception
- 29:16Development
- 34:52Introduction
- 40:11Realize
- 43:56Maintenance
- 47:14Retirement
- 51:49Continue the Journey
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