APIs are a journey for any company, organization, institution, or
government agency learning to properly manage their digital resources
across an ever expanding and evolving competitive digital landscape. This
digital transformation, which has been building over the last five years, is
beginning to result in a shift across the API landscape, where companies are
beginning to stop asking if they should be doing APIs and have begun
seeking more knowledge on how to do APIs properly. Organizations are
realizing that there’s more to APIs than just creating them; a lot goes into
delivering APIs throughout the entire API lifecycle. The authors behind
Continuous API Management possess a unique understanding of what it
takes to move an API from ideation to realization consistently, at scale, and
in a repeatable way—providing the makings for a pretty unique learning
opportunity.
Most API practitioners operate with a view of the API landscape spanning a
single set of APIs. Medjaoui, Wilde, Mitra, and Amundsen, the authors of
this book, possess a unique view of the API landscape at a 250,000-foot
level, spanning thousands of APIs, multiple industries, and some of the
largest enterprise organizations out there today. I can count the top-tier API
talent that exists around the globe on both my hands, and Medjaoui, Wilde,
Mitra, and Amundsen are always first to be counted on my right hand.
These authors bring a wealth of experience to the table when it comes to
understanding what you need to move APIs from inception to design, from
development to production, and back again. There just isn’t another team of
API experts out there who have the scope and the breadth of API
knowledge that this team possesses, making this book destined to become
that tattered O’Reilly tome that lives within reach on the corner of your
desk—something you read again and again.