What is API
- Application Programming Interfaces, or APIs, have become vital tools for business growth.
- APIs enable two different services to interact
- Developing robust and concrete APIs to fuel the API economy
- API Lifecycle is a must to ensure robust & quality API.
API Lifecycle
The five stages of an API lifecycle are:
- Planning and Designing the API
- Developing the API
- Testing the API
- Deploying the API
- Retiring the API
Planning and Designing the API
- API planning and design involve mapping out the various, resources and operations.
- API should align to the business case & scenario.
- API implementation required good design.
- API needs a good framework for implementation.
Developing the API
- API focuses on implementing the API based on the plan and design.
- Implementing and building the API as soon as possible is a key go-to-market strategy that concerns a lot of organizations.
- Development should easy and speedy
- API Specification should be ready before development.
- Use a tool that can generate API.
Testing the API
- APIs should be thoroughly tested and monitored for performance issues.
- API’s quality and performance parameters should be as per the NFR requirement.
- API testing should use tools & automation for functional, performance & load
Deploying the API
- APIs, at the end of the day, must satisfy a use case for an end consumer, be it your internal developer team, a partner company, or the general public.
- Deploying the API to a secure environment for facilitating easy discovery and consumption is essential for the success of your API strategy.
- important to remember that to deliver guaranteed and high-quality API performance.
- Security and API Gateway are an essential part of the deployment.
Retiring the API
- Deprecation is a natural part of the API lifecycle.
- API version should be announced for the end of life.
- API can also go for the end of life.
- Customers, Vendors & Partners should be aware.
By:
Rajendra Pachouri
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