💭 forwords : "From grocery to supermarkets"

In a few words : you cannot hope for people to use and pay for your APIs and put your digital products & strategy to the next level if you don't showcase them in a proper place : the "developer portal".

Picture taken 17 February 1963 of Edouard Leclerc the French businessman in front of the first butcher's shop he opened in Paris. E. Leclerc wants to reform the distribution system in selling goods at wholesale prices, [...].
In the 80's Leclerc owns over 130 superstores, 350 supermarkets and about 50 specialized shops (sportswear, clothes, do-it-yourself, agricultural equipments stores). Moreover he his the biggest oil distributor in France after the national distributors.

💡 It's all about Customer empowerment

👉 Metaphorically, in the past people were going to the grocery and were asking to an agent to pick the products for themselves.
The disruption came when Edouard Leclerc empowered customers so they could choose, carry and even pay by themselves.

This is what we want to achieve in the digital era : putting self service as much as possible. Everywhere.

❔ About APIs "supermarkets"

Developer portals are at the core the digital transformation as they are the place where outer & inner software engineers/architects will come, discover available API products, ideate - and hopefully prototype - on how they will build innovative solutions on top of them thanks to appealing free plans.

🎯 What you'll learn

In this content, you'll :

• 🥳 Discover the public developer portal thanks to Apigee integrated portal we recently kicked off, in its early - alpha - version,
• 🔑 Learn how to authenticate
• 🔓 Learn how to create API keys
• 🚀 See how to call APIs by yourself

🍿 Demo time

🔖 Resources

• Our portal (α version)
• Apigee integrated portal
• Developer portal solutions

Further about the "Apigee API hub" to

"consolidate and organize information about all of the APIs of interest to your organization.":

• What is Apigee API hub?