"Apigee API Platform Essentials"
"Apigee API Platform Essentials" is a comprehensive guide designed for architects, developers, and platform engineers seeking to master enterprise-grade API management with Google Apigee. This book navigates the complexities of Apigee's architecture, detailing the inner workings of its core components, various deployment models, and platform scalability strategies. Readers will gain an in-depth understanding of high availability, multi-tenancy, extensibility frameworks, and networking intricacies necessary for building robust, distributed API infrastructures.
The heart of the book delves into effective API proxy engineering, advanced security and threat protection, and rigorous performance tuning. Practical guidance covers modular proxy design principles, policy pipelines, traffic mediation, support for diverse protocols including REST, SOAP, and gRPC, and robust debugging methodologies. Security aficionados will value the treatments on authentication mechanisms, role enforcement, threat defense, compliance, and automation of certificate management, all critical for safeguarding APIs in demanding environments.
Beyond the tactical, this essential volume covers the full API lifecycle: from productization, versioning, and automated CI/CD release pipelines to developer portal architecture, self-service onboarding, and analytics for both operational excellence and developer engagement. Case studies and advanced scenarios highlight integration with service mesh, hybrid cloud, legacy modernization, and regulated industry requirements. With practical, actionable advice across all facets of Apigee adoption, this book is an indispensable resource for API leaders driving digital transformation and platform reliability at scale.