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API Marketplace Engineering

Design, Build, and Run a Platform for External Developers

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Authors:
  1. Rennay Dorasamy

    1. Johannesburg, South Africa

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  • Analyzes regulatory requirements such as Open Banking and the impact of API ecosystems
  • Details foundational technical components, roles, and processes to support an API platform
  • Provides deep insight into an API Marketplace implementation from inception to implementation to operation

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

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  2. API Engineering

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    Pages 1-15

  3. Regulation

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    Pages 17-35

  4. Consumption

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    Pages 37-63

  5. Monetization

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    Pages 65-89

  6. Platform Architecture

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    Pages 91-117

  7. Security

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    Pages 119-146

  8. API Design

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    Pages 147-171

  9. API Development

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    Pages 173-198

  10. Sandbox

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    Pages 199-224

  11. API Operations

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    Pages 225-254

  12. Conclusion

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    Pages 255-260

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 261-291
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About this book

This is your hands-on guide to designing, building, and operating an API Marketplace to allow your organization to expose internal services and customer data securely for use by external developers. The book shows the mutual nature of a relationship in which organizations benefit from revenue and the reach of a new digital channel and third-party developers benefit from leveraging APIs to build unique applications.

Providing open access is a regulatory requirement in some sectors, such as financial services, and this book helps you to build a platform to comply with regulatory requirements while at the same time encouraging and supporting use by external development teams. The book provides the blueprints for assembling teams and systems to build and support an API ecosystem. It offers insight into how the Marketplace can be constructed in a way to allow agility and flexibility to meet aggressive startup developer timelines while balancing established enterprise requirements of stability, reliability, and governance. The goal of this book is to provide engineering teams with a view of the operational requirements and how to meet and exceed these by establishing foundational elements at design time.

An API Marketplace presents a unique challenge as organizations have to share internal capability and customer data with external developers. Security practices and industry standards are contrasted and discussed in this book. Practical approaches are provided to build and support a third-party developer ecosystem, manage sandbox environments hosting APIs of varying complexities, and cover monetization strategies that are yielding positive results to achieve self-sustainability.


What You Will Learn

  • Understand the motivation and objectives for an API economy
  • Build key technical components of an API platform
  • Comply with regulatory requirements such as Open Banking
  • Secure APIs and customer data from external attack
  • Deliver APIs quickly while satisfying governance requirements
  • Get insight into a real-world API Marketplace implementation



Who This Book Is For

Solution architects, API product owners, delivery and development leads, and developers; anyone developing APIs for consumption by external business partners; API developers who want more insight into regulatory compliance


Authors and Affiliations

  • Johannesburg, South Africa

    Rennay Dorasamy

About the author

Rennay Dorasamy has spent the last 20 years in various technology roles, ranging from development to operations to architecture, across a number of industries. He has worked in telecoms, with government, and most recently in financial services. He has considerable hands-on integration experience working on middleware platforms from C-based messaging to Java Enterprise Edition. He is experienced in both core enterprise and digital contexts. As a full-stack engineer, he is intimately familiar with technologies such as containerization, cloud, and serverless technology for building and deploying mission-critical solutions. He is currently the Engineering Lead of an API Marketplace implementation, the first of its kind in financial services on the African continent.

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