In this course, you learn how to design APIs, and how to use OpenAPI specifications to document them. You learn about the API lifecycle, and how the Apigee API platform helps you manage all aspects of the lifecycle. You learn how APIs can be designed using API proxies, and how APIs are packaged as API products to be used by app developers.

Through a combination of lessons, hands-on labs, and supplemental materials, you will learn how to design, build, secure, deploy, and manage API solutions using Google Cloud's Apigee API Platform.

This is the first course of the Developing APIs with the Apigee API Platform series. After completing this course, enroll in the API Security with the Apigee API Platform course.