Developing APIs with Google Cloud's Apigee API platform (T-APIENG-B)

Module 01: Apigee Overview

• Understand the placement and role of API management in modern application development.
• Define Apigee API Platform logical components and organizational structure.
• Differentiate between Apigee flexible deployment models.
• Explain API lifecycle.

Module 02: API First and OpenAPI Specifications

• Describe REST API design.
• Understand the value of API-First development and how to apply it.
• Discuss OpenAPI specification and its use in the context of API-First development.

Module 03: API Proxies

• Define the building blocks of APIs and API proxies.
• Describe how APIs proxies work and how capabilities such as flows, policies, route rules, virtual hosts and target servers play a role.
• Understand how APIs are exposed.
• Understand how API proxies connect to backend systems.

Module 04: API Products

• Define API products and the value behind API product strategy.
• Understand the role of developers, applications, and API keys in API management.
• Describe the API publication process.
• Understand API responses and status codes for REST APIs.

Module 05: Authentication, Authorization, and OAuth

• Discuss the importance of API Security.
• Understand the value of application identity.
• Understand the role of user authentication and authorization.
• Gain deep understanding of OAuth (Access token, Refresh token, Common pattern for all grant types) and its application in the context of API design and management.
• Discuss federated identity and the use of JSON Web Tokens in your API proxies.

Module 06: Content, Transport, and Internal Security

• Explore platform capabilities for protecting against content-based attacks and transport security.
• Understand how to protect sensitive data using encrypted KVMs, data masking, private variables.

Module 07: Mediation

• Understand the out-of-the-box platform capabilities for implementing mediation and fault handling.
• Describe implementation patterns and policies for JSON, XML, and SOAP.
• Understand extensibility options using Service Callouts, JavaScript, Python, and hosted targets.
• Explore development practices and capabilities used to reuse, share, and enforce execution of flows and policies.
• Illustrate out-of-the-box options to invoke Google Cloud services and third-party components using extensions.

Module 08: 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.

Module 09: 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.

Module 10: Logging and Analytics

• Discuss available options for message logging.
• Understand the value and use of API analytics.
• Differentiate between message logging and API analytics.
• Understand the extensibility options available for API analytics using custom metrics and dimensions.

Module 11: Advanced Topics

• Discuss recommended practices and tooling for Apigee offline development.
• Describe the capabilities offered by management API.
• Evaluate options to leverage CI/CD as part of API lifecycle.
• Explore Apigee Deployment Options.