Apigee API Management Trial Episode 1: Welcome!

[Music] hi Dino here I'm with Apogee and I help people use api's to build their digital businesses welcome to your Apogee edge trial with Apogee you'll be able to securely expose bear api's with API keys or OA Thor JWT modernize existing soap services publisher api's to developers through your own custom API portal and get visibility into usage of your api's via api analytics all of that is available to you when you manage your api's with Apogee edge listen api's are the foundation for digital businesses large and small and with Apogee you're ready to harness that potential for yourself in upcoming videos we'll get hands-on and I'll show you how to wrap management around your API in minutes before we do that let's cover some basics the key concept enabling the API management goodness and Apogee edge is the API proxy proxy is a wrapper for your actual service clients instead of calling your API endpoint directly call the API proxy and the API proxy calls your existing API you may be thinking why the extra hop why use one extra moving part well I'll tell you the API proxy provides the way to plug in an application independent mechanism for you to specify consistent management rules and policies that apply to all of your API is your api's might be a mix of services lacking consistency with respect to security or data model or even URL design and an API proxy allows you to build a coherent facade around those various endpoints or maybe all of your API czar clean new implementations so you don't need a proxy to enforce consistency but you will still want an API proxy to handle things like a lot token verification or caching routing rate limiting and analytics and reporting Appaji can provide all of that with no coding and no modification of your existing services so that's API management Appaji edge lets you easily add management to any API ready to get started the next video will dive into the first step in using Apogee creating your first proxy until next time keep it digital [Music]

Channel: Apigee

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Keywords: api, API mangement, Apigee, Google Cloud

Id: 2bDeH3C23Hc

Length: 2min 26sec (146 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 25 2018