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API Analytics for Product Managers

By : Deepa Goyal
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API Analytics for Product Managers

By: Deepa Goyal

Overview of this book

APIs are crucial in the modern market as they allow faster innovation. But have you ever considered your APIs as products for revenue generation? API Analytics for Product Managers takes you through the benefits of efficient researching, strategizing, marketing, and continuously measuring the effectiveness of your APIs to help grow both B2B and B2C SaaS companies. Once you've been introduced to the concept of an API as a product, this fast-paced guide will show you how to establish metrics for activation, retention, engagement, and usage of your API products, as well as metrics to measure the reach and effectiveness of documentation—an often-overlooked aspect of development. Of course, it's not all about the product—as any good product manager knows; you need to understand your customers’ needs, expectations, and satisfaction too. Once you've gathered your data, you’ll need to be able to derive actionable insights from it. This is where the book covers the advanced concepts of leading and lagging metrics, removing bias from the metric-setting process, and bringing metrics together to establish long- and short-term goals. By the end of this book, you'll be perfectly placed to apply product management methodologies to the building and scaling of revenue-generating APIs.
Table of Contents (24 chapters)
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The API Analytics Cheat Sheet

Designing APIs

In most organizations, the API program will be ongoing and involve numerous departments and employees, as well as a wide range of tools and resources. Maintaining a consistent design approach or method is one way to provide continuity amidst the chaos of constant change. If you train all of your developers to use the same design process, you ensure uniformity without stifling their individuality.

Additionally, a solid design process does not rely on a single technology stack or collection of tools. As a result, your API program can evolve over time depending on the power of consistent design methods, rather than a specific API format, protocol, or another technical component. In fact, having a solid design process in place makes it less of a hassle to update tools without introducing incompatible new implementations. Therefore, we should design tools to help make API software consistent and compatible.

When designing APIs, you will partner closely with your engineering...