Strategic and tactical considerations for planning, building, and evolving an API to make direct and indirect users successful.

The second of four episodes in the API Facade Pattern series: common patterns for an API facade.

The first of four episodes in the API Facade Pattern series: an overview of the idea and theory of API facades.

Explore the organizational and technical challenges of turning big data into valuable business insights.

A roundup of different client libraries and frameworks, plus considerations for selecting mobile back-end platforms.

Learn the unique scalability considerations and failure points to look out for with APIs, how to design scale across the full stack, and how to create an end-to-end testing strategy for API scalability.

Learn the predominant use cases for enterprises using APIs; how the growth of OAuth and mobile/javascript clients impact your API design; and the technical and business drivers for data-centric APIs.

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