API Architecture: The Big Picture for Building APIs: 2 (Api University)

Good for beginners. Gives you good information about Architecture. Bit costly.

You could think of the volumes in this series as sections in a large API Programming book. This mini-book is the Overview section. It discusses API design methods and tools in an abstract way. There is little in the way of concrete direction, so readers who want to know exactly what to do might feel unsatisfied. But if you want advice from a 10,000-foot view (which I did), you'll get a lot out of it. Recommended.

API Architecture does what it says on the tin in a very clear writing style ... and I’m very much looking forward to reading API Design.

To simple for me, the only topic I guess was useful, was some comparison of yaml vs raml, but too superficial too. Thanks!

As an introductory book it has all the basics and very clear language

The book is well written but lacks substance and fails to deliver an overview of the architectural challenges surrounding API design. For example, no discussion on asynchronous integration styles. Not recommended.