Summary
This was a highly complex and technical topic – congratulations on making it through! We did not mention how this would be useful for automation, but you need to think back to all the cool stuff we did in the first eight chapters while discussing internal automation. With all these new options and cool things that we just went over added to that, can you see all the new awesome possibilities lining up? We can!
As a refresher, in this chapter, we looked at the different types of APIs beyond just a simple explanation of SOAP and REST. We also examined the different ways to run requests and the protocols and structures that enable these capabilities. Finally, we took a deep dive into SDKs to see where they can help or hurt your developer environments.
We now have a solid grasp of these technical fundamentals and are much stronger technical resources ourselves. Now, let's turn our attention to webhooks and microservices to see how we can start putting these ideas...