LinkedIn – Programming Foundations: APIs and Web Services 2025-4

Programming Foundations: APIs and Web Services. This course teaches you how to design, build, secure, test, and optimize APIs using RESTful, GraphQL, and AI frameworks. Participants will learn the fundamentals of APIs and web services, how to implement RESTful APIs with Python, and how to build GraphQL servers. The course also covers advanced topics such as API security (authentication, authorization, and sensitive data management), pagination, filtering, and integrating with AI APIs like OpenAI. Hands-on challenges and tools like Postman and the OpenAPI Specification help reinforce learning. By the end, participants will be familiar with future trends such as serverless architectures, edge computing, and trustless security, and will be able to build scalable and secure APIs.

What you will learn

• API Design and Building: Participants will learn how to design and build APIs using RESTful, GraphQL, and AI-based frameworks.
• API Security: Learn best practices in API security, including authentication and authorization techniques to protect sensitive data.
• Big Data Management: Learn advanced topics such as paging, filtering, and sorting to efficiently manage large data sets.
• AI-based API Management: Explores the application of AI in API management to increase performance and security.
• API Testing: Using tools like Open API Specification (Swagger) and Postman, they test APIs and check their usability.
• Future Trends: Gain insights into future technology trends such as serverless architectures, edge computing, and zero trust security.

This course is suitable for people who:

• Programming enthusiasts and software developers looking to learn or improve their skills in APIs and web services.
• Engineers who want to build scalable, secure, and efficient APIs.
• People looking to understand API security and big data management best practices.
• Those interested in exploring the use of artificial intelligence in API management.
• Anyone who wants to work with tools like Open API Specification (Swagger) and Postman.
• People looking to understand future trends in API development such as serverless architectures and edge computing.