APIs: A Strategy Guide by Daniel Jacobson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
This thin volume is targeted toward C-level and lower level product management, etc. The technical level is generally not deep, with the deepest foray into the security area where the authors recommend OAuth and a helpful dive into Pragmatic REST. The authors do a good job at raising the core issues to invoke when planning an API strategy from development to roll out. The API as business strategy, like paint on an aging home, can hide a multitude of sins and refresh an aging interface while largely leaving untouched brittle platforms or provide a new layer for otherwise hard to implement functionality, like UI translation.
This is the first time I noticed in an O'Reilly book a lack of a colophon detailing the cover animal. Boo!
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