Layer7 APIs & Developer Management

by G. Hussain Chinoy

1. Documentation

1.1. Swagger

1.2. jsonschema

2. Evangelist

2.1. Active marketing

2.2. Code examples

3. API Explorer / API Portal

3.1. Immediate ability to exercise the API

3.2. Publish and Expose

3.3. Onboard & manage devs

4. Security

4.1. Sandbox

4.2. OAuth2

5. Versioning

5.1. Simultaneous Versions

5.2. Decision to Sunset

5.3. Translate v1 api -> v2 internally

6. Managed APIs

6.1. API Portal

6.1.1. Partner

6.1.2. Internal

6.1.3. Public

6.2. Pay Barrier

6.2.1. Support

6.2.2. # of Hits

6.3. Free

6.4. Tiers

6.4.1. Manage access to deeper apis

6.4.2. Private apis

6.4.3. Rate limits

7. Other Users

7.1. System Integrators

7.2. ISVs

8. Categorization

8.1. Metadata

8.2. Access / Auth

9. Standards & Governance

9.1. WADL

9.2. REST

10. Reporting Tools

10.1. Usage

10.2. Which apps

10.3. helps devs understand who their best users are