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Learn the business and technical importance of API design and architecture using the available cloud services from Azure and AWS.
This book starts off with an introduction to APIs and the concept of API Economy from a business and organizational perspective. You´ll decide on a sustainable API strategy and API architecture based on different case scenarios.
You´ll then look at actual examples on API development guidelines, providing a practical view and approach towards the API development and aligning teams in API development. This book walks you through the API gateway services available in Azure and AWS and reviews different approaches to API Security. This will prepare you for understanding the trade-off between security and the frictionless API experience.
What You´ll Learn

Implement API Gateways to streamline API Development

Examine Security Mapping with API gateways from Azure and AWS

Apply API implementation using Serverless architecture

Review evolving APIs for monitoring and changing business requirements

Use code samples in API security implementations

Who This Book Is For
Developers and architects with .NET and web development experience who want to learn about API design.

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Practical Cloud based API´s with Azure and A
Chapter 1: Practical Introduction to APIs Goal: The chapter gives an introduction to the APIs and the booming API economy from a business and organizational aspect.

Chapter 2: API Strategy and Architecture
Goal: How to decide on a promising and sustainable API strategies and API architecture based on different case based scenarios.

Chapter 3: API Development
Goal: Practical case based examples on API development guidelines. Often teams suffer with overwhelming development and semantic guidelines, this chapter gives a practical view and approach towards the API development and aligning teams in API development.
Chapter 4: API Gateways Goal: Introduction to API gateways and API gateway services available in Azure and AWS. Includes the usage and core concepts of these tools.

Chapter 5: API Security Goal: Different approaches to API Security and the practical decision guidelines in implementing security in API and handling the tradeoff between security and the frictionless API experience.
Chapter 6: Serverless API Goal: Introduction to Serverless and using Serverless architecture in developing APIs.

Chapter 7: Practical Design and Development Goal: In practical design and development cases there are some common cases used by the teams and developers to get the maximum out of the chosen API platform.

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Thuru Vijayakumar is a cloud solutions architect with diversified experience in the software industry specializing in business and technology mapping in enterprise architecture. He has experience in software architecture, development, business intelligence, cloud computing and data security. He´s a Microsoft MVP for Microsoft Azure and a speaker with distinctive thoughts, presenting speeches in different international conferences and user group meetings. Check his blog for the recent work he´s been doing. 

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