A lot of work is required to release an API. But overplanning before an API matures is a wasted investment, and underplanning can lead to disaster. If you're just starting to build an API program and want to understand the work ahead of you, or you need to learn how to manage your existing APIs, this updated second edition provides maturity models for individual APIs and multi-API landscapes.

How do you balance agility and speed with the need for robust and scalable operations? Four API management experts show software architects, program directors, and product owners how to maximize the value of their APIs by managing them as products through a continuous lifecycle.

• Learn which API decisions you need to govern
• Design, deploy, and manage APIs using an API-as-a-product approach
• Examine the key pillars that form the foundation of API product work
• Learn how a continuous improvement model governs changes throughout an API's lifetime
• Explore the stages of a complete API product lifecycle
• Establish team roles needed to design, build, and maintain your APIs
• Manage and publish the set of APIs released by your organization