The Producer and Consumer Life Cycle
Learn to navigate the producer and consumer lifecycle in API development, focusing on how customer feedback loops support continuous improvement. This lesson helps you understand the interaction between API creators and developers using APIs, emphasizing support models that enable effective communication and product evolution.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
Understanding the API development lifecycle
As a producer of an API, it is often easy to forget that a development cycle on the customer’s side is required to integrate with the APIs we produce. Unlike a mobile app or a website, the user experience of an API involves a developer or a team of developers being able to discover, evaluate, integrate, and scale their usage of the API. Depending on how easy or difficult our ...