Application programming interfaces (APIs) enable two or more computers or programs to communicate via a request and a response. Some examples of APIs include a user placing an order on a website, an employee updating a store inventory database through a mobile app, or a hedge fund's trading software displaying charts with live market data. Through this course, learn about the role of APIs and the technical requirements for API development. Discover the benefits, use cases, best practices, and common tools for working with APIs. Next, practice creating APIs and examine practical methods for API testing, deployment, integration, and security. Finally, learn how to monitor and meter API usage. After course completion, you'll be able to create and maintain APIs.

Low-code, no-code, and serverless applications are changing the business landscape for technical tasks. Businesses are rapidly adopting these technologies due to the numerous ways they improve business efficiency, like reducing technical overhead and increasing speed and ease of app delivery. With this course, explore alternatives to writing code and using frameworks by focusing on low-code and no-code solutions. Examine the similarities and differences between low-code and no-code solutions. Next, discover common use cases for popular low-code and no-code platforms and build a web app without writing a single line of code. Finally, learn how to create a workflow for an event-driven application and explore best practices for low-code and no-code platforms. Upon completion, you'll be able to work with low-code and no-code platforms.

Programming frameworks facilitate software development in a variety of ways. Pre-packaged tooling, improving security, and providing infrastructure are some ways programming frameworks help developers. Through this course, learn about development frameworks, software development best practices, and version control systems. Explore common web frameworks for front-end and back-end development and the use cases for frameworks. Next, examine test-driven (TDD) and behavior-driven (BDD) development approaches and best practices for effective and safe programming. Finally, learn how to configure and work with code repositories and integrate software version control systems into programming frameworks. After course completion, you'll be able to list development frameworks and version control systems and their use cases.