Developing APIs with Google Cloud’s Apigee API Platform

In this course, you learn how to design APIs, and how to use OpenAPI specifications to document them. You learn about the API life cycle, and how the Apigee API platform helps you manage all aspects of the life cycle. You learn how APIs can be designed using API proxies, and how APIs are packaged as API products to be used by app developers.
Through a combination of lectures, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will learn how to design, build, secure, deploy, and manage API solutions using Google Cloud’s Apigee API Platform.

Objectives

In this course, participants will learn the following skills:

  • Explore and put into practice API design, development and management concepts.
  • Understand the value of API-first development and how to apply it.
  • Describe the fundamentals of REST API design.
  • Describe API products, API product strategies, and how to publish APIs to a developer portal.
  • Understand the role of user authentication and authorization and the importance of API security.
  • Understand the out-of-the-box platform capabilities for implementing mediation, traffic management, caching, and fault handling.
  • Describe the value and use of API analytics.
  • Understand the deployment options for the Apigee platform.

Audience

This class is intended for the following audience:

  • Developers, architects, or engineers responsible for the solutioning, design, implementation, or management of APIs, API products, or digital products that leverage APIs.

Prerequisites

To get the most out of this course, participants should have:

  • Familiarity with HTTP, XML, JSON, and JavaScript.

Duration

24 hours (3 days)

Investment

Check the next open public class in our enrollment page.
If you are interested in a private training class for your company, contact us.
Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform dependencies with other courses and certifications
Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform dependencies with other courses and certifications

Course Outline

The course includes presentations, demonstrations, and hands-on labs.
  • Understand the placement and role of API management in modern
    application development.
  • Define logical components and organizational structure of Apigee API platform.
  • Differentiate between Apigee flexible deployment models.
  • Explain the API lifecycle.
  • Describe the fundamentals of REST API design.
  • Understand the value of API-first development and how to apply it.
  • Discuss OpenAPI specifications and their use in the context of API-first development.
  • Define the building blocks of APIs and API proxies.
  • Describe how APIs proxies work and how capabilities such as flows, policies,
    route rules, virtual hosts and target servers play a role.
  • Understand how APIs are exposed.
  • Understand how API proxies connect to backend systems.
  • Define API products and API product strategies.
  • Understand the role of developers, applications, and API keys in API management.
  • Describe the API publication process.
  • Understand API responses and status codes for REST APIs.
  • Discuss the importance of API Security.
  • Understand the value of application identity.
  • Understand the role of user authentication and authorization.
  • Gain deep understanding of OAuth (Access token, Refresh token, Common pattern
    for all grant types) and its application in the context of API design and management.
  • Discuss federated identity and the use of JSON Web Tokens in your API proxies.
  • Explore platform capabilities for protecting against content-based attacks and transport security.
  • Discuss transport security and how to protect the connection between Apigee and backend services.
  • Understand how to protect sensitive data using encrypted KVMs, data masking, private variables.
  • Understand the out-of-the-box platform capabilities for implementing mediation and fault handling.
  • Describe implementation patterns and policies for JSON, XML, and SOAP.
  • Understand extensibility options using Service Callouts, JavaScript, Python, and hosted targets.
  • Explore development practices and capabilities used to reuse, share, and enforce execution of flows and policies.
  • Describe when and how to use traffic management.
  • Evaluate options and applicable use cases for rate limiting with spike arrests and quotas.
  • Understand caching strategy and how to apply it.
  • Describe API publishing strategy and process.
  • Expand understanding of REST API design by discussing API versioning.
  • Describe the role of developer portals in the API lifecycle and as a critical part of API strategy.
  • Discuss available options for message logging.
  • Understand the value and use of API analytics.
  • Understand the extensibility options available for API analytics using custom metrics and dimensions.
  • Discuss recommended practices and tooling for Apigee offline development.
  • Describe the capabilities offered by management API.
  • Evaluate options to leverage CI/CD as part of API lifecycle.
  • Explore Apigee Deployment Options.