Service Publishing with Azure API Management for Beginners

Modern software architectures rely heavily on APIs, but managing, securing, and scaling these connections across microservices can quickly become overwhelming. This text-based course guides you through the foundational concepts of API gateways and service publishing, showing you how to centralize control over your services. You will learn how to design, secure, and monitor your APIs to ensure high availability and seamless developer integration. Through clear explanations and practical design patterns, you will discover how to transform raw backend services into managed, consumer-facing APIs. What you will learn: Understand the core architecture of API gateways and service publishing; Configure routing, rate limiting, and request transformation policies; Secure your endpoints using modern authentication flows and key management; Monitor API performance with logging, metrics, and tracing; Design developer portals to improve service discovery and onboarding. The course begins with essential terminology and structural fundamentals before moving into step-by-step publishing workflows and security configurations. This course is designed for backend developers, systems architects, and technical professionals who are new to API management and want to build a solid foundation. Start reading today to simplify your service architecture and secure your API ecosystem.