April 29, 2024
Updated June 6, 2024
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API Manager is a highly specialized role that combines the responsibilities of a software engineer and a data analyst. API Managers develop, manage, and maintain application programming interfaces (APIs) that allow different software applications to communicate with each other. In this role, you'll work closely with both developers and business stakeholders to ensure that APIs meet the needs of both parties. To be successful in this career, you'll need to have a strong understanding of software development, data analysis, and business process.
What Does an API Manager Do?
API Managers are responsible for a wide range of tasks, including:
- Designing, developing, and maintaining APIs
- Monitoring and analyzing API performance
- Working with developers to ensure that APIs are used correctly
- Collaborating with business stakeholders to define API requirements
- Keeping up with the latest trends in API development
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Is specifically focused on Azure API Management, offering a practical approach to its various aspects, including security, compliance, and integration. It is suitable for API developers and cloud engineers looking for a deep dive into managing an API-centric enterprise architecture with Azure API Management. It covers essential concepts and provides a pathway for getting started and learning valuable management and administration skills.
This guide provides a detailed exploration of the Azure API Management platform, covering the entire API lifecycle from design to security. It includes practical examples and hands-on exercises, making it suitable for developers and IT professionals. It's a good resource for gaining a broad understanding of creating, managing, and securing APIs on Azure.
Given the importance of security in API management, this book provides essential knowledge on creating secure APIs. It covers various security techniques, including authentication and authorization. While not exclusively about Azure, the principles and practices are directly applicable to securing APIs managed by Azure API Management.
Azure API Management is fundamentally about managing RESTful APIs. is considered a key resource for understanding the principles and best practices of designing RESTful web services. It provides foundational knowledge crucial for anyone working with APIs, regardless of the platform.
Covers the broader discipline of API management, discussing strategies and practices beyond a specific platform. It provides a valuable framework for understanding the role of Azure API Management within a larger API program. This book is more valuable as additional reading than it is as a current reference for Azure API Management specifically. This book is commonly used as a reference by industry professionals.
Provides a rule-driven approach to designing RESTful APIs, offering concise and unambiguous rules. It challenges readers to think deeply about their API design choices, which is beneficial for creating well-structured APIs to be managed by Azure API Management.
Understanding how APIs can be vulnerable is key to securing them effectively with Azure API Management. provides insights into API security testing and common vulnerabilities, offering a defensive perspective by understanding offensive techniques.
While not solely focused on API Management, this book provides guidance on architecting solutions on Azure, including design patterns and best practices. Understanding overall Azure architecture is helpful for integrating API Management within a larger cloud solution. The third edition covers serverless architectures and other contemporary topics relevant to API backends.
Provides guidance on designing well-structured and user-friendly REST APIs. Designing a good API is the first step to effectively managing it with Azure API Management.
An updated edition of 'Hands-On Azure for Developers', this book continues to explore Azure PaaS services relevant to API backends and provides updated information for developers building on Azure.
OpenAPI (formerly Swagger) is widely used to describe REST APIs, and Azure API Management supports importing OpenAPI specifications. helps in understanding and creating effective API descriptions, which is directly relevant to using API Management.
Explores various Azure PaaS services, including those often used as backends for APIs managed by Azure API Management, such as App Services and Functions. It helps developers understand how to build complete systems on Azure, providing valuable context for using API Management.
Azure API Management operates within the Azure networking infrastructure. provides a comprehensive guide to designing, deploying, and managing Azure networking services. A solid understanding of Azure networking is crucial for configuring and securing API Management effectively.
Many APIs managed by Azure API Management are part of microservice architectures. comprehensive guide to microservice design patterns, providing valuable context for designing and implementing the backend services exposed via API Management.
The course list includes 'DevOps with Azure API Management'. provides a broader understanding of implementing DevOps practices on Azure, which can be applied to the management and deployment of Azure API Management instances and the APIs they manage.
Provides a gentle introduction to Azure API Management for beginners.
Covers fundamental concepts of cloud computing and development on Microsoft Azure. It provides a broad overview of Azure services, which is helpful for gaining foundational knowledge before focusing on specific services like API Management.
Understanding the broader context of API architecture is beneficial when working with an API management platform. provides a high-level view of building APIs, complementing the specific knowledge of Azure API Management.
Azure API Management is often used in cloud-native architectures. explores building cloud-native applications on Azure, providing context on how API Management fits into this paradigm.
This guide offers insights into developing a strategy for adopting and implementing Microsoft Azure solutions. Understanding the strategic context of using Azure is helpful for positioning and utilizing Azure API Management effectively within an organization.
Serves as a general introduction to Microsoft Azure, covering various services and helping beginners transition to becoming more proficient with the platform. It provides foundational knowledge necessary for working with any Azure service, including API Management.
Provides a comprehensive overview of cloud computing on Microsoft Azure with practical examples. It's a good resource for beginners to understand the broader Azure ecosystem where API Management resides.
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