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With so many approaches to proper API design, development, and management, it’s pretty easy to get lost just in the planning process. As an API provider, have you considered usage limits, gateway pricing plans, or security? Or, on a more technical level, have you thought about your current limitations, configuring frameworks, and web server infrastructure?
Putting an API into production comes with several challenges, regardless of your language and framework. For example, in traditional API deployment, you would be responsible for the hosting environment, which inevitably comes with concerns – you must maintain the infrastructure even if it’s hosted on AWS or Azure. Any infrastructure must be simultaneously deployed, such as database objects, files, storage configurations, and plugins.
But for the day-to-day developer, API deployment and subsequent management is a considerable challenge, especially if it’s not part of their immediate skill set.
This guide illustrates the concept of taking your API specification all the way to a hosted API.
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