In the era of rapid consumption of software products, continuous integration and continuous deployment help produce a continuous flow of software releases. In this course, you'll learn about CI/CD and how to choose the correct strategy, as well as the benefits and principles of CI/CD when deploying APIs. You'll then explore testing APIs during continuous integration and best practices when performing API testing. Next, you'll examine CI/CD pipelines and API deployment, and how to scale the CI/CD pipeline. You'll learn about best practices when using CI/CD, as well as common CI/CD tools, including Jenkins, Travis, GitLab, and TeamCity. Lastly, you'll learn how to use the Jenkins CI server, Travis CI, and GitLab CI.

As the demand for new APIs increases, API Lifecycle Management helps manage API development from start to finish. In this course, you'll learn about the phases and benefits of the API Lifecycle Management process, as well as the Producer and Consumer design pattern. You'll then explore API strategy and planning, API implementation and operation, and API governance and governance models. Next, you'll move on to examine API Lifecycle Management best practices, including monitoring, analytics, security, and versioning techniques. Finally, you'll see how to design a Swagger REST API, implement a Swagger REST API server, test a Swagger REST API, and implement a Swagger REST API client.

While it's essential to design, develop, and deploy an API that adheres to your design strategy, it is also vital to ensure that the API will be secure from malicious attacks. In this course, you'll explore how to write secure API code. You'll examine API secure development features and best practices, and the various tools you can use when developing APIs. Next, you'll identify Web API and REST API security principles and outline the best practices for ensuring API security. Finally, you'll recognize various methods for performing API authorization and define the different Web API security standards such as OAuth, SAML, and Transport Layer Security (TLS).

Messy code quickly becomes the technical debt that hurts the bottom line of a business and the morale of developers. In this course, you'll learn how to avoid messy code and write clean maintainable API code. You'll also learn the best practices for refactoring, rewriting, commenting code, and avoiding bad habits.

As a developer, we are always looking to add value through extensibility and reusability in our code. Creating a modern API is a means of achieving that goal. In this course, you'll learn about developing APIs, potential security risks, how to deal with these risks, and how to design reusable API code. Next, you'll examine the different methods and programming languages used for consuming REST API web services. Finally, you'll explore SOAP APIs, along with constraints and best practices to consider when creating them.

A sustainable API comes from creating a solid foundational design. To achieve this goal, a developer must use best practices along with the right tools. In this course, you'll learn strategies for designing reusable API web services as well as methods for determining the API's maturity level. Next, you'll explore the tools available with Swagger, including the API editor, the API code and client generator, the REST API documentation tool, and the REST API testing tool. Finally, you'll learn about methods and tools for designing REST APIs such as Swagger, OpenAPI, and YAML.

Given the ubiquity of the web and the HTTP protocol, developers can leverage this to create a modern API through RESTful design. In this course, you'll learn the best practices for developing REST APIs and creating documentation. Next, you'll examine working with REST API resources, CRUD implementations, error handling, HTTP status codes, change management, versioning, pagination, and partial responses. Finally, you'll look at best security design practices such as using JSON Web Tokens and API keys.