Course Overview
The One Day Hack for API prepares the IT professionals of all flavours for communication across the Internet using APIs. The focus of this hack is to give attendees a hands-on experience of working and managing API using Microsoft Azure. The concept of One Day Hack for API is based on attendees working in teams while completing a set of gated challenges that will exponentially boost their knowledge of the brave new world of today’s modern, API-based cloud-application world. They will do that by leveraging Microsoft Azure.
Course Content
The challenges are connected – each of them builds on top of the previous one. The attendees will be faced with three challenges in total and will be given a repo containing the source code of the demo application consisting of several microservices. The challenges are briefly described below
Challenge 1: I can see clearly now - Cloudy Functions
Introduction to function as a code on Azure will start with the team looking to write their first API. Each team member will have to create and debug an HTTP triggered Azure Function locally on their development machine.
Challenge 2: Manage those APIs before they go wild
The team will be introduced to the Azure API Management. They will need to develop and publish additional APIs through Azure API Management. After doing just that, they will configure different product suites to offer various API products.
Challenge 3: What’s going on with APIs?
At this point, everything should be up and running. However, this doesn’t end the lifecycle of an API. That is why the team should check their API, from developer engagement metrics to business and operational metrics, to improve their APIs so that app developers can also enhance their apps. The team should keep an eye on traffic patterns, usage of API methods, API response times, etc