Apigee For Beginners: Api Gateway & Management, Google Cloud

Hands-on APIGEE training to build, deploy, secure & manage APIs. Perfect for developers, freshers & backend beginners.

What you'll learn

What is an API? Explained for Beginners

Full API Lifecycle: Explained with Google APIGEE

How to Set Up Your First APIGEE Project

How to Create an API Proxy

Securing Your APIs: Key Auth & OAuth

Debugging & Monitoring APIs with APIGEE Analytics

How to deploy APIs to Production

Best Practices for API Design & Scalability

Debugging API Traffic

Requirements

Comfort with a terminal and a code editor

Basic REST/HTTP knowledge (verbs, headers, JSON)

Curiosity to break things and fix them

Basic understanding of web development or programming

No prior knowledge of APIs or APIGEE required

Description

Learning objectivesBy the end of this course, you will be able to:Design and build REST APIs using Google APIGEECreate API proxies, policies, products, and appsImplement API security using OAuth, API Keys, and rate limitingMonitor, debug, and analyze API traffic using dashboardsApply full API lifecycle management best practicesUse APIGEE in real-world backend or DevOps projectsWhat is the course about?Start your API journey with Google APIGEE—used by over 500 top enterprises to manage billions of API calls daily.With this beginner-friendly, practical course, you'll learn everything from setting up your first API proxy to deploying a secure, scalable gateway using Google Cloud’s APIGEE platform.Whether you're a fresher, junior developer, or switching to backend or DevOps roles, this course gives you the real-world skills and confidence to start working with APIs immediately.You will learn through a series of hands-on lessons, live projects, and guided walkthroughs, designed to break down complex concepts into simple, actionable steps. Plus, you’ll walk away with:A working API deployed on APIGEEA downloadable project repo to add to your portfolioWhat’s included in the course:Real-world API lifecycle explainedComplete APIGEE setup and environment walkthroughAPI proxy, policy, and product creationOAuth, key-based security, and quota managementMonitoring and analytics using APIGEE dashboardsAPI testing with PostmanI’ve worked on B2B APIs used by fintech, logistics, and SaaS platforms, so my lectures are based on solving real production issues.I will break down tough backend concepts into simple, beginner-friendly lessons for you to have a guided, systematic learning journey into the full API lifecycle. You won’t just learn what to do, but why it works in the real world. This course is actively maintained and regularly updated to reflect changes in APIGEE and API best practices.You don’t need experience to start working with APIs like the pros do. Learn to design, secure, and manage them in real environments—starting today.Lecture TitlesWhat is an API? Explained for BeginnersFull API Lifecycle: Explained with Google APIGEEHow to Set Up Your First APIGEE ProjectHow to Create an API ProxySecuring Your APIs: Key Auth & OAuthDebugging & Monitoring APIs with APIGEE AnalyticsHow to deploy APIs to ProductionBest Practices for API Design & ScalabilityDebugging API TrafficCapstone Project: Build Your First Real-World API on APIGEE

Overview

Section 1: Course Introduction

Lecture 1 Course structure

Section 2: Introduction to APIs

Lecture 2 Introduction to API

Lecture 3 How API works?

Lecture 4 API life cycle

Lecture 5 HTTP Status Codes

Section 3: Introduction to APIGEE and Setup

Lecture 6 Introduction to API Management

Lecture 7 Provision APIGEE

Lecture 8 Introduction to APIGEE

Section 4: API Proxies and Policies

Lecture 9 Creating your first Proxy

Lecture 10 Conditional flows

Lecture 11 Conditional flows Configuration

Lecture 12 Flow Variables

Lecture 13 Operators

Lecture 14 Introduction to Policies

Lecture 15 No Target Proxy

Section 5: Mediation Policies

Lecture 16 Assign Message Policy

Lecture 17 Assign Variable Policy

Lecture 18 Extract Variable from XML Policy

Lecture 19 Extract Variable from JSON Policy

Lecture 20 OpenAPI Specification

Lecture 21 JSON to XML Policy

Lecture 22 XML to JSON Policy

Lecture 23 HTTP Modifier Policy

Section 6: API Products, Apps, Developers and Developer Portal

Lecture 24 API Products and Developer Portal

Lecture 25 API Apps

Lecture 26 OpenAPI Specification ( for other policies )

Section 7: Traffic Management Policies

Lecture 27 Spike Arrest policy

Lecture 28 Shared Flows

Lecture 29 Flow Control

Lecture 30 Quota Policy

Section 8: Security Policies

Lecture 31 Basic Authentication ( Encode )

Lecture 32 Basic Authentication ( Decode )

Lecture 33 OAuth 2.0

Lecture 34 JWT Token

Backend or cloud engineers moving APIs to GCP,Students prepping for Apigee API Engineer certification,Architects seeking an enterprise API gateway pattern,DevOps/Platform teams adding security & governance,Backend or DevOps beginners,Frontend developers transitioning to full-stack,Anyone curious about how APIs and APIGEE work,Freshers and junior developers