API Design and Fundamentals of Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform (Coursera)

In this course, you learn how to design APIs, and how to use OpenAPI specifications to document them. You learn about the API lifecycle, and how the Apigee API platform helps you manage all aspects of the lifecycle. You learn about how APIs can be designed using API proxies, and how APIs are packaged as products to be used by app developers.

This course utilizes hands-on labs that model an API development process that can be used for real-world projects on Google Cloud's Apigee API platform.

Course 1 of 3 in the Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform Specialization.

Syllabus

WEEK 1

Module 0: Introduction

Welcome to API Design and Fundamentals of Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform

Module 1: Apigee Overview

This module introduces the Apigee platform, API management, and the API lifecycle

Module 2: API First and OpenAPI Specifications

This module introduces the basic concepts of REST API design, API first development, and OpenAPI specifications

Module 3: API Proxies

This module introduces API proxies, proxy and target endpoints, virtual hosts, route rules, target servers, conditions, flows, and policies

WEEK 2

Module 4: API Products

This module introduces REST API response design, API products, app developers, apps, API keys, and API product strategies