Developing APIs with Google Cloud’s Apigee API Platform Training
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Prerequisites
Target Audience
Skills Gained
- Explore and put into practice API design, development and management concepts.
- Describe the fundamentals of REST API design.
- Describe API products, API product strategies, and how to publish APIs to a developer portal.
- Describe Apigee terminology and organizational model based on Apigee product capabilities.
- Discuss the role of user authentication and authorization and the importance of API security.
- Identify capabilities available to secure, scale, and manage APIs and API products.
- Explore and put into practice API design, development and management concepts.
- Discuss the out-of-the-box platform capabilities for implementing mediation, traffic management, caching, and fault handling.
- Describe the value and use of API analytics.
- Describe the deployment options for the Apigee platform.
- Interact with the Apigee API Platform.
- Apigee Overview
- Define the placement and role of API Management in modern application development.
- Define logical components and organizational structure of Apigee API platform.
- Differentiate between Apigee flexible deployment models.
- Explain the API lifecycle.
- API First and OpenAPI Specifications
- Describe the fundamentals of REST API design.
- Describe the value of API-first development and how to apply it.
- API Proxies
- Define the building blocks of APIs and API proxies.
- Describe how API proxies work and how capabilities such as flows, policies, route rules, environment groups, and target servers play a role.
- Describe how APIs are exposed.
- Describe how API proxies connect to backend systems.
- Generate an API proxy using an OpenAPI specification.
- Run an API proxy in different environments without changing the target URL in the proxy code.
- Route target endpoints using route rules and troubleshoot proxies using the Apigee debug tool.
- Module 4: API Products
- Define API products and API product strategies.
- Describe the role of developers, applications, and API keys in API management.
- Describe the API publication process.
- Describe API responses and status codes for REST APIs.
- Publish APIs as products.
- Authentication, Authorization, and OAuth
- Discuss the importance of API security.
- Discuss the role of user authentication and authorization.
- Discuss the main components of OAuth and its application in the context of API design and management.
- Discuss federated identity and the use of JSON Web Tokens in API proxies.
- Apply the OAuthV2 policy to allow apps to access the retail API proxy by providing an OAuth token.
- Content, Transport, and Internal Security
- Explore platform capabilities for protecting against content-based attacks.
- Discuss transport security and how to protect the connection between Apigee and backend services.
- Discuss how to protect sensitive data using KVMs, data masking, and private variables.
- Protect an API proxy against content attacks and malicious requests.
- Prevent internal users from getting unauthorized access to sensitive data.
- Apply a private variable and a debug mask to hide data when debugging an API proxy.
- Mediation
- Describe the out-of-the-box platform capabilities for implementing mediation and fault handling.
- Describe implementation patterns and policies for JSON, XML, and SOAP.
- Discuss extensibility options using Service Callouts, JavaScript, and Java.
- Explore development practices and capabilities used to reuse, share, and enforce execution of flows and policies.
- Traffic Management
- Describe when and how to use traffic management.
- Evaluate options and applicable use cases for rate limiting with spike arrests and quotas.
- Understand caching strategy and how to apply it.
- API Publishing
- Describe API Publishing strategy and process.
- Expand understanding of REST API Design by discussing API versioning.
- Describe the role of developer portals in the API lifecycle and as a critical part of API strategy.
- Create, configure and use a developer portal.
- Logging and Analytics
- Discuss available options for message logging.
- Discuss the value and use of API analytics.
- Advanced Topics
- Discuss recommended practices and tooling for Apigee offline development and CI/CD.
- Describe the Apigee deployment options.
Partner Registration
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Partner Registration
The course you are registering for is being delivered by our sister company - ExitCertified. All logistics related to course delivery will be managed by the ExitCertified team. If you have a dedicated Web Age representative, please feel to reach out to them with any questions/concerns you may have.
You'll now be redirected to https://www.exitcertified.com to complete the enrollment process.
Partner Registration
The course you are registering for is being delivered by our sister company - ExitCertified. All logistics related to course delivery will be managed by the ExitCertified team. If you have a dedicated Web Age representative, please feel to reach out to them with any questions/concerns you may have.
You'll now be redirected to https://www.exitcertified.com to complete the enrollment process.
