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API Developer Learning Path

An API Developer designs and develops secure and efficient application programming interfaces on the Google Cloud Platform.

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An API Developer designs and develops secure and efficient application programming interfaces on the Google Cloud Platform. This learning path guides you through a curated collection of on-demand courses, labs, and skill badges that provide you with real-world, hands-on experience using Google Cloud technologies essential to the API Developer role. Once you complete the path, check out our catalog for 700+ labs and courses to keep going on your professional journey.
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01

A Tour of Google Cloud Hands-on Labs

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access_time 45 minutes
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In this first hands-on lab you will access the Google Cloud console and use these basic Google Cloud features: Projects, Resources, IAM Users, Roles, Permissions, and APIs.

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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure

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access_time 5 hours
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Google Cloud Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure introduces important concepts and terminology for working with Google Cloud. Through videos and hands-on labs, this course presents and compares many of Google Cloud's computing and storage services, along with important resource and policy management...

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API Design and Fundamentals of Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform

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access_time 8 hours
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In this course, you learn how to design APIs, and how to use OpenAPI specifications to document them. You learn about the API life cycle, and how the Apigee API platform helps you manage all aspects of the life cycle....

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API Security on Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform

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access_time 24 hours
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In this course, you learn how to secure your APIs. You explore the security concerns you will encounter for your APIs. You learn about OAuth, the primary authorization method for REST APIs. You will learn about JSON Web Tokens (JWTs)...

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API Development on Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform

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access_time 24 hours
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In this course, you learn how to create APIs that utilize multiple services and how you can use custom code on Apigee. You will also learn about fault handling, and how to share logic between proxies. You learn about traffic...

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Develop and Secure APIs with Apigee X

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access_time 9 hours 45 minutes
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Develop and Secure APIs with Apigee X quest, where you learn how to modernize your APIs, use service accounts and Google Authentication to securely access backend services from Apigee API proxies, productize APIs...

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Deploy and Manage Apigee X

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access_time 8 hours 15 minutes
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Earn a skill badge by completing the Deploy and Manage Apigee X quest, where you learn about the Apigee X architecture, how to provision an Apigee X organization within a Google Cloud project, the management of Apigee X using the...

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