Designing Good Interfaces
You’ll learn how APIs support business processes within and between companies, and can even be marketed as standalone products.Agenda
Placing APIs in the history of software development, plus different integration styles and concepts
How APIs Create Value
The concept of the “API economy”, API value creation, and API business models
API Styles and Technologies
Fundamental styles as well as popular technologies such as gRPC, REST and GraphQL
API Design
The “outside-in” approach, API versioning, and good practices for a successful design
Describing APIs
OpenAPI as a description language for HTTP APIs, and alternative approaches
API Lifecycle and API Tooling
The development cycle of an API product, and managing it as a product
API Security
Fundamentals of communication security, relevant technologies in the API space, and the OWASP API Security Top 10
APIs at Scale: Platforms and Governance
Comparing different platform concepts, API guidelines, and APIs as team interfaces
Your Benefit
This seminar is hands-on and makes central methods, proven techniques and valuable perspectives around APIs directly tangible and applicable. You get a comprehensive view of APIs - not just as technical interfaces, but as strategic levers for digital value creation that foster reusability, ease integration, and make organizations more agile.
Target Audience
The training is aimed at developers, architects and decision-makers who want to not only implement APIs technically, but also understand and strategically shape them in a larger architectural and organizational context. It offers valuable insights for anyone who wants to better place the role of APIs as drivers of digital transformation and as a foundation for new business models.
iSAQB Accredited
In our seminar, we implement the learning goals of the iSAQB curriculum API in a modern, hands-on and interactive way. On your way to becoming a Certified Professional for Software Architecture (CPSA) Advanced, you receive 10 technical and 10 methodological Credit Points.
Our Extras for You
All exercise results and theoretical content shown are made available to participants electronically afterwards.
Official Certificate of Participation
In this seminar, participants are awarded 10 technical and 10 methodological Credit Points for the iSAQB® CPSA-Advanced Level with a perpetually valid iSAQB® certificate.