API Design & Development with RAML - Building Complex APIs

What you'll learn
Define API concepts and terminologies
Understand API design & development process
Explain features of API and best practices
Define API security elements
Learn complete API design and development - coding and technical
Learn end-to-end RAML API Design
Elaborate use-cases and examples of API
Build API from scratch for Banking
Build API from scratch for Music
Build API from scratch for Mobile Orders
Requirements
Enthusiasm and determination to make your mark on the world!
Description
A warm welcome to the API Design & Development with RAML - Building complex APIs course by Uplatz
API stands for Application Programming Interface. An API is like a tool-suite that programmers can use in helping them create software. A good API will have clear and concise commands that a programmer can use and reuse, so they don't have to build everything over again. The API is a powerful and versatile means to connect diverse and disparate software applications.
APIs allow a vast array of unrelated software products to integrate and interoperate with other software and data. APIs also allow developers to add features and functionality to software by utilizing a rich array of other developers' APIs. APIs are not all equal, however. Developers can work with an assortment of API types, protocols and architectures that suit the unique needs of different applications and businesses. In simple words, an API is an interface that helps software programs connect and communicate with one another.
By leveraging the connectivity that APIs provide, developers can work more efficiently and get more things done. Instead of writing code that's already been written before and wasting precious time, developers can focus their efforts on innovation and expanding the usage of their application or products or services.
APIs are essentially the tools. They allow you as a programmer to deliver solid solutions fairly rapidly. If you have to rebuild everything from scratch every time, your solutions will be cumbersome. They probably might not even work so if there's an API for a particular need, it is to be used. People who have built a successful business from the ground up are always looking for ways to scale it. One of the ways to do this is to encourage interaction with your business, and you can do exactly that by creating an API.
API Architectures
APIs exchange commands and data, and this requires clear protocols and architectures -- the rules, structures and constraints that govern an API's operation. Today, there are three categories of API protocols or architectures: REST, RPC and SOAP. These may be dubbed "formats," each with unique characteristics and tradeoffs and employed for different purposes.
REST - The representational state transfer (REST) architecture is perhaps the most popular approach to building APIs. REST relies on a client/server approach that separates front and back ends of the API, and provides considerable flexibility in development and implementation. REST is "stateless," which means the API stores no data or status between requests. REST supports caching, which stores responses for slow or non-time-sensitive APIs. REST APIs, usually termed "RESTful APIs," also can communicate directly or operate through intermediate systems such as API gateways and load balancers.
What is RAML?
RESTful API Modeling Language is a YAML-based language for describing RESTful APIs. It provides all the information necessary to describe RESTful or practically RESTful APIs. Although designed with RESTful APIs in mind, RAML is capable of describing APIs that do not obey all constraints of REST.
API Design & Development with RAML - Building complex APIs - Course Curriculum
Introduction to API
Data Formats and Authentication
Designing API
API Design Center
Features of API
API Best Practices
API Security Schemes
API Design Principles
Introduction to RAML (RESTful API Modeling Language)
Importance of RAML in Design
RAML API Practical Example
RAML 100 Complete API Design
RAML 200 Complete API Design
RAML API Design Examples
Build an API for Banking Application
Build an API for Music Application
Build an API for Mobile Orders Application
Who this course is for
API Designers & Developers
Lead API & Microservices Developers
Anyone interested in API design & development
Newbies & Beginners aiming for a career in API design
Solution Architects - API Integration
Cloud API Developers - AWS, Azure, GCP
Cloud Platform Architects
Data Architects
Application Developers
Data Engineers - ETL/ELT pipelines
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