Summary

At this point, you should be familiar with the various ways that products are categorized. Understanding the types of products will help you analyze the unique challenges of any product based on its technology, business model, and the relationship between API consumers and API producers.

Looking at API products, you can now understand the architectures and protocols used and the types of APIs across private, public, partner, and internal APIs. With this understanding, you can look at the wide variety of APIs currently on the market and understand how these protocols enable the development of unique API-first products and business opportunities. You are now ready to think of APIs as products.

In the next chapter, you will learn about API product management and develop product thinking to enable you to build an API-first strategy for your organization.