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APIs for Dummies
The pressure is on to meet increasing customer expectations, improve internal efficiencies, and ensure a thriving partner network. This book explores how APIs lay the foundation for businesses to rise to those expectations, improve corporate agility, and liberate data from legacy systems creating a digital, adaptive, data-driven business platform.
44 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2014
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July 27, 2022
This is the first 'for Dummies' book I've read, and judging by this one it'll be the last.
This book says it will show you how to use APIs as the foundation for digital platforms, meet customer expectations and spur innovation, so maybe I was wrong to expect a bit more about the HOW of an API, as all this gives is WHY you should use one.
This book has a commercial feel to it, it continuously hypes Apple products to the extent I now wonder (but can't be arsed to look up) if Apple own Apigee. The premise seems to be encouraging C-Level people to build APIs to manipulate customers and profiteer of them through pushy and invasive sales tactics.
If you're interested in what an API is and how to build one/one is built this isn't the book for you.
This book says it will show you how to use APIs as the foundation for digital platforms, meet customer expectations and spur innovation, so maybe I was wrong to expect a bit more about the HOW of an API, as all this gives is WHY you should use one.
This book has a commercial feel to it, it continuously hypes Apple products to the extent I now wonder (but can't be arsed to look up) if Apple own Apigee. The premise seems to be encouraging C-Level people to build APIs to manipulate customers and profiteer of them through pushy and invasive sales tactics.
If you're interested in what an API is and how to build one/one is built this isn't the book for you.
April 13, 2021
It is only about why to use apis
October 26, 2016
This is a quick read. However it is not a technical read. This is a marketing book on APIs. There is nothing technical in here at all. Do not waste your time. Everything is ra ra ra API API API. This is what it can do. The book is never about how to do what APIs can do. It doesn't even mention SOAP and REST until the very end and it is just one paragraph. All it does is show examples of how different companies use different APIs for different reasons and how it benefited them. All of the chapters were the same. Read chapter one and chapter 6. Cut out the "rest", just like the book did.
August 14, 2015
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December 26, 2016
This book is more of a why API , rather than what is API . It's a good read, if you are looking for the former
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