With 2020’s challenges now behind us, it’s a great time to reflect on the lessons we learned. During a time when digital transformation and technology innovation took center stage during the global health crisis, API integration and management became even more critical for organizations. With all this in mind, and to help you set your 2021 API New Year’s resolutions, here is a look back at our must-read posts about APIs from 2020.
Getting API design right
There’s more to APIs than providing access to functionality and data—API design plays a significant role in maximizing business value, increasing developer productivity, and ensuring the longevity of an API. This topic has been covered many times in the Google Cloud Blog, but here are two of our favorite posts about API design from 2020:
API design: Understanding gRPC, OpenAPI and REST and when to use them
APIs 101: Everything you need to know about API design
Why API strategy is powering digital transformation
It’s impossible to discuss transformation and modernization without mentioning APIs. They are the de facto standard today for building and connecting modern applications. APIs can no longer be an afterthought in application development, they are central to delivering competitive advantage, enabling inter-service communication, and improving operational efficiency. With this in mind, it is more important than ever to treat your API program as a mission-critical initiative. Here are our top picks for posts you need to read on API strategy:
What is API-first? 5 opportunities to create business value
How APIs and ecosystem strategies accelerate digital transformation
How an API-powered digital ecosystem can drive innovation and efficiency
Four ways to generate value from your APIs
How to be a data-driven company: 5 ways to embrace data
Building business resilience with API management
Powerful new API capabilities and product enhancements
From the new Apigee Adaptor for Envoy-based services and the launch of the Google Cloud API Gateway to using Apigee to fuel no-code development or unlock the wealth of data in legacy SAP environments, there was no shortage of new Google Cloud offerings in 2020 to help developers create, manage, and leverage APIs. APIs have emerged as the key tissue linking organizations and technologies in ecosystems, allowing businesses to gain maximum value from their data and forge new avenues for innovation and growth. In case you missed them, here are the most popular posts about the latest Google Cloud product offerings and updates for API management:
Faster, more powerful apps for everyone: What happened at Next OnAir this week
Announcing API management for services that use Envoy
Google Cloud API Gateway is now available in public beta
Apigee: Your gateway to more manageable APIs for SAP
No-code momentum: Accelerating app development and automation
How to develop secure and scalable serverless APIs
Apigee named a Leader again by Gartner and Forrester
For the fifth time in a row, Gartner recognized Google (Apigee) as a Leader in the 2020 Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management. Apigee was positioned highest out of all the vendors for the ability to execute, enabling enterprises to build and scale their mission-critical API programs. Check out the post (and download the full report) to learn how Apigee’s comprehensive API management capabilities accelerate app development, build API-driven digital ecosystems, and power modern API economies:
Google (Apigee) named a Leader in the 2020 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Full Life Cycle API Management
Google Cloud was also recognized by Forrester as a leader in The Forrester Wave™: API Management Solutions, Q3 2020. In this report, Forrester assessed 15 API management solutions against a set of pre-defined criteria. In addition to being named a leader, Google Cloud received the highest possible score in the market presence category, and the strategy category criteria of product vision, and planned enhancements, and current offering criteria such as API user engagement, REST API documentation, formal lifecycle management, data validation and attack protection, API product management, and analytics and reporting.
Google Cloud named a Leader in the 2020 Forrester Wave for API Management Solutions