Design valuable APIs
You want to design a high-quality, usable and user-friendly API. One that’s easy to integrate, secure, scalable and solves users’ problems. Excellent. But how do you do all that work with limited time?
Tyk provides these tools out of the box, enabling fast launches and even faster iterations.
With Tyk, you can design, secure, launch and start tracking adoption in under a week.
PAIN POINTS
Why is it hard to design valuable APIs?
Effective API design is built on two pillars: knowledge and design guidelines. The knowledge of how your API can effectively solve a problem, and the design guidelines that ensure it is easy to use, secure, reliable, performant, and scalable. These, along with clear and up-to-date documentation, are your tools for success.
The hard part comes in implementing those design guidelines into reality. Guidelines provide the guardrails you need while supporting innovation in terms of API design so that you deliver value each and every time.
In practical terms, you’ll need crystal clear documentation, consistent design, easy versioning to ensure backward compatibility, a well-implemented authentication mechanism and consumption plans that reflect your business model. And let’s not forget clear, informative error handling, all of which needs to be designed to meet your data privacy and compliance obligations.
Don’t panic. Help is at hand…
SOLUTIONS
How does Tyk solve those problems?
API designer
Use Tyk’s API Designer to create or import APIs. Apply policies at API and granular level for outstanding control and use our dashboard GUI to design and implement APIs fast – have a URL for testing in under a minute.
Documentation OOTB
In Tyk, API Definitions are created as OAS definitions. By designing or importing your APIs, you are also documenting them for your internal and 3rd party developers.
Robust security
Easily implement robust authentication, security, rate limiting and quotas, to version your APIs without breaking existing integrations and to handle errors gracefully.
Universal Data Graph
With Tyk’s Universal Data Graph, it’s easy to take one or more REST APIs and stitch them into a single GraphQL API using a no-code approach. Declaratively offer a GQL API to your developers so they can choose how to integrate and build on top of your APIs.
SOLUTIONS
Benefits to
Tyk’s solution
Centralized standards
Tyk makes it easy to put guardrails in place, from caching mechanisms to security policies.
Analytics
Have a helicopter view of all your APIs – which are most popular, where errors are occurring, and more.
CASE STUDIES
