Managing APIs with Apigee Training by AcadNXT is designed to provide participants with practical expertise in API lifecycle management, security, monitoring, and governance using the Apigee API Management platform. This instructor-led program focuses on designing, deploying, securing, and monitoring APIs at scale using Apigee Edge/Apigee X concepts. Participants will learn how to manage API proxies, enforce security policies, control traffic, analyze API usage, and implement enterprise-grade API governance strategies. The course is ideal for API developers, integration engineers, DevOps professionals, and cloud architects responsible for managing API ecosystems in modern distributed systems.

• Understand API lifecycle and Apigee architecture
• Build and deploy API proxies effectively
• Implement API security and authentication mechanisms
• Manage traffic control and rate limiting policies
• Monitor API performance using analytics tools
• Apply API governance and versioning strategies
• Troubleshoot API issues in real environments
• Integrate APIs with backend services

• API Developers
• Integration Engineers
• DevOps Engineers
• Cloud Engineers
• Backend Developers
• Enterprise Architects
• Site Reliability Engineers (SREs)
• Platform Engineers

• Basic understanding of REST APIs and HTTP concepts
• Familiarity with JSON and web services
• Basic knowledge of software development or integration concepts
• Understanding of microservices is helpful but not mandatory
• Awareness of cloud concepts is beneficial

• Understanding API lifecycle management using Apigee
• Designing and deploying API proxies
• Implementing authentication and authorization mechanisms
• Managing traffic control, quotas, and rate limits
• Monitoring API performance and analytics
• Applying security policies for enterprise APIs
• Debugging and troubleshooting API issues
• Managing API versioning and deployments
• Integrating APIs with backend services
• Applying API governance best practices

After completing the Managing APIs with Apigee Training, participants will be able to design, secure, deploy, and manage enterprise APIs using the Apigee platform. Learners will gain practical expertise in API lifecycle management, security enforcement, traffic control, monitoring, and governance strategies.

Introduction to API Management and Apigee

• Overview of API economy and API lifecycle
• Introduction to Apigee platform architecture
• API management concepts and components
• API proxy structure and flow
• Setting up Apigee environment overview

API Proxy Development and Deployment

• Creating and configuring API proxies
• Request and response flow handling
• Target endpoints and routing strategies
• Deploying APIs to environments
• Debugging and testing APIs

Traffic Management and Policies

• Introduction to Apigee policies
• Rate limiting and quota enforcement
• Spike arrest and throttling strategies
• Caching policies for performance optimization
• Traffic control best practices

Security and Access Control

• API key management and validation
• OAuth 2.0 implementation basics
• JWT validation and token policies
• Access control and authentication flows
• API security best practices

Monitoring, Analytics, and Troubleshooting

• API analytics dashboards
• Monitoring API traffic and performance
• Error handling and logging strategies
• Debugging failed API requests
• Performance optimization techniques

API Lifecycle Management and Governance

• API versioning strategies
• Deployment lifecycle management
• CI/CD integration for APIs
• Governance and compliance policies
• Enterprise API management practices

Mini Project and Practical Implementation

• Building end-to-end API management solution using Apigee
• Creating secure and scalable API proxies
• Applying traffic and security policies
• Monitoring APIs using analytics dashboard
• Final project review and optimization

• Apigee architecture and components
• API proxy development and deployment
• Policies for traffic and security management
• Authentication and authorization mechanisms
• API monitoring and analytics
• API lifecycle and governance
• Troubleshooting and debugging APIs
• Mini project implementation

• Hands-on API proxy creation exercises
• Policy configuration and security implementation tasks
• Traffic management assignments
• API debugging and troubleshooting activities
• Mini project development and evaluation
• API analytics and monitoring scenarios

Participants will receive course materials, slides, reference materials, exercises and access to resources for further learning.

Participants who successfully complete the training will receive an AcadNXT Certification in Managing APIs with Apigee Training, validating their expertise in API lifecycle management, Apigee proxy development, security policies, monitoring, and enterprise API governance.