Exploring API Center: A Deep Dive with Julia Casper

Exploring API Center: A Deep Dive with Julia Casper

Aug 9, 2024

This episode of "INTEGRATE expert voices - Unplugged" from the Azure on Air podcast, features Julia Casper from Microsoft's API Management team.

API Center is a new product from Microsoft that aims to help organizations manage their APIs more effectively. In this conversation, Julia shares her background and history at Microsoft and then dives into the details of the API center. She explains how it can help organizations inventory and manage their APIs and discusses some of the challenges that the API center is designed to solve. If you're interested in API management, this is a great conversation to check out.

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Key Moments:

00:00:15 - Introduction
00:01:33 - Introduction to API center
00:01:50 - Origins and challenges it solves
00:02:35 - How API center can help organizations manage APIs
00:03:55 - Common scenarios for multiple API management instances
00:05:33 - API center as a holistic solution for API management
00:07:22 - Inventory and discovery features of API center
00:08:51 - Lifecycle stages and source code tracking
00:10:51 - Developer tools and integration with Visual Studio Code
00:12:50 - API center as part of an API-first strategy
00:14:11 - Differences between API management and API center
00:16:25 - Getting started with API center
00:18:00 - Takeaways and next steps for architects and developers

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