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Module 1: There's an API for that

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    There is an API for that – Lesson summary
    That concludes the module there is an API for that here is a reminder of what you’ve learned, you began by learning that APIs are software structures written so that they can present clean well-defined interfaces that remove needless detail. Next you discovered that using rest APIs ensures that Legacy and newly created apps can communicate clearly with each other. You also found out that when designing and developing your apps you need to make a range of considerations that include the interface, authorisation and authentication. Management and scalability and logging and monitoring. The next part of the module focused on different tools that you can use to manage your APIs this included cloud endpoints which is a distributed API management system that helps you create and maintain APIs. And Apigee Edge a platform for developing and managing API proxies it wraps around the APIs and has a business focus in other words brake limiting, quarters, analytics and so on. Next you learned about managed messaging systems they ingest, transform and analyse massive amounts of data. They also orchestrate complex business processes, finally you learn that cloud pub/sub some passes messages between data gathering and processing systems. Cloud pub/sub is a service to help customers capture data and rapidly pass massive amounts of messages between other Google Cloud platform big data tools and other software applications with world-class security.