API Design Courses and Certifications

Platform Engineering

Preventing $2M Loss: Detecting and Managing API Breaking Changes

Discover how to prevent costly API breaking changes through cryptographic analysis, legacy service migration strategies, and automated detection algorithms for maintaining API consistency.

• YouTube
• 32 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Conf42

Optimizing Performance and Security: Crafting Robust APIs

Enhance API performance and security through authentication, input validation, caching, and error handling. Learn best practices for robust, fast, and secure API development.

• YouTube
• 29 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

GOTO Conferences

10x Developer Experience: Shift-Left API Governance for Reduced Cycle Time

Discover how to revolutionize API governance through shift-left practices, improving developer experience and reducing cycle times while ensuring secure, compliant integrations with practical strategies and real-world implementations.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Devoxx

Behind the Scenes of Novibet's Casino API - Building a Scalable and Modular Platform

Discover how Novibet built a modular, scalable Casino API handling real-time traffic and game integrations for thousands of daily gaming sessions.

• YouTube
• 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Open Data Science

Are Your APIs Ready for AI Agents? A 90 Day Action Plan

Discover a strategic 90-day playbook to transform your APIs for AI agents, covering clean documentation, automated workflows, and scalable infrastructure for intelligent automation.

• YouTube
• 27 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Jamf

Building an Enterprise API for Secure and Scalable Jamf Integration

Discover how to build enterprise APIs that enhance Jamf automation scalability, security, and efficiency for large organizations beyond basic API usage.

• YouTube
• 39 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Linux Plumbers Conference

Libside: Tracer-Agnostic Instrumentation API for User-Space Applications

Explore libside, a new API for user-space application instrumentation, enabling seamless integration with kernel and user-space tracers while optimizing performance and flexibility.

• YouTube
• 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Linux Plumbers Conference

An Introduction to the DPLL Subsystem

Introduction to DPLL subsystem: API for configuring and monitoring Digital Phase Lock Loop circuits in Linux. Enables precise time synchronization for systems requiring syntonised frequencies across networks.

• YouTube
• 15 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Devoxx

The Never-Ending REST API Design Debate

A debate on designing clean, elegant REST APIs, weighing choices for resource paths, versioning, responses, pagination, status codes, and authentication.

• YouTube
• 59 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Okta

API Throwdown: RPC vs REST vs GraphQL - Comparing API Design Styles

A clear comparison of RPC, REST, and GraphQL to help choose an API design style for an application.

• YouTube
• 46 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Strange Loop Conference

Type-Driven API Design in Rust

Learn how Rust traits and its type system shape composable APIs that catch client mistakes at compile time.

• YouTube
• 41 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

CppCon

Back to Basics: C++ API Design - Making APIs Hard to Use Wrong

Master C++ API design techniques to create user-friendly interfaces. Learn strategies for making APIs intuitive, robust, and hard to misuse, enhancing code quality and developer productivity.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 1 minute
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Designing RESTful APIs

16 ratings at Udacity

Build and secure a web server with a RESTful Developer-Friendly API that developers will love to use.

• Udacity
• 5 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

NDC Conferences

ReST API Design - A Beginner's Guide

Learn a step-by-step process for defining a REST API specification before implementation, including where to begin, what to consider, and common gotchas.

• YouTube
• 50 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk

Devoxx

The 7 Deadly Sins of API Design

Explore common API design pitfalls and best practices to create effective, user-friendly APIs. Learn from real-world examples and interactive discussions on avoiding "evil" designs.

• YouTube
• 43 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Conference Talk