APIs as products
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In this lesson
explain what changes when an API is treated as a product.
Planned topics
- A product has an owner, consumers, documentation, a roadmap, and support.
- Consumers are customers: partners, the mobile team, other internal teams; their needs shape the API.
- Measure use: active consumers, errors, time to first successful call.
- Breaking a consumer without notice is a product failure, not just a technical one.
Draft outline details
Demonstration
an API product card for Larkspur's Catalog API: owner, consumers, support channel, SLA, version, deprecation policy.
Check your understanding
What does a product owner do that a service owner may not?
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Manages consumers, roadmap, documentation, and change communication.
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