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API courses can help you learn how to design, build, and test application programming interfaces, as well as understand RESTful services and authentication methods. You can build skills in data exchange formats like JSON and XML, error handling, and API documentation practices. Many courses introduce tools such as Postman for testing APIs, Swagger for documentation, and various programming languages like Python or JavaScript to implement API calls, allowing you to effectively integrate and manage data across different systems.


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    Google Cloud

    Manage and Secure Distributed Services with GKE Managed Service Mesh

    Skills you'll gain: Kubernetes, Virtual Networking, Cloud Applications, Cloud Deployment, Google Cloud Platform, Multi-Tenant Cloud Environments, Cloud API, Application Deployment, General Networking

    Advanced · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
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    Google Cloud

    Reliable Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process en Français

    Skills you'll gain: Microservices, Application Deployment, Kubernetes, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Computing Architecture, Network Architecture, Cloud Security, CI/CD, Service Level Agreement, Restful API, DevOps, API Design, Distributed Denial-Of-Service (DDoS) Attacks, Virtual Networking, Cloud Storage, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Scalability, System Monitoring

    4.3
    Rating, 4.3 out of 5 stars
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    7 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Google Cloud

    Using Cloud Trace on Kubernetes Engine

    Skills you'll gain: Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Application Deployment, Cloud Applications, Load Balancing, Web Applications, Cloud API, Application Performance Management, Web Servers

    Intermediate · Project · Less Than 2 Hours

  • Status: Preview
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    Coursera

    Generative AI for Code Completion

    Skills you'll gain: LLM Application, Large Language Modeling, Prompt Engineering Tools, OpenAI API, Microsoft Copilot, AI Enablement, Generative AI, Software Development Tools, Application Development

    4.3
    Rating, 4.3 out of 5 stars
    ·
    8 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    G

    Google Cloud

    Architecting with Google Compute Engine in italiano

    Skills you'll gain: Identity and Access Management, Cloud Infrastructure, Google Cloud Platform, Application Deployment, Cloud Development, Microservices, Virtual Machines, Cloud Applications, API Design, Kubernetes, Load Balancing, Virtual Networking, Google App Engine, Infrastructure As A Service (IaaS), Terraform, Data Storage Technologies, Restful API, Cloud Computing Architecture, Cloud Computing, CI/CD

    Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
    P

    Packt

    Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-305)

    Skills you'll gain: Data Integration, Microsoft Azure, Authorization (Computing), Azure Active Directory, Event-Driven Programming, Cloud Infrastructure, Authentications, Cloud Storage, Disaster Recovery, Data Architecture, Cloud Computing Architecture, Database Design, Cloud Security, Data Infrastructure, Event Monitoring, Role-Based Access Control (RBAC), Application Design, Application Programming Interface (API), Cloud Deployment, Identity and Access Management

    Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

  • P

    Packt

    Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners

    Skills you'll gain: Web Scraping, Extensible Markup Language (XML), Data Processing, Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), JSON, Data Capture, Application Programming Interface (API), MongoDB, Data Storage, Hypertext Markup Language (HTML)

    Beginner · Course · 3 - 6 Months

  • Status: Free
    Free
    C

    Coursera

    Machine Learning with PySpark: Recommender System

    Skills you'll gain: PySpark, Apache Spark, Data Pipelines, Data Processing, AI Personalization, Dimensionality Reduction, OpenAI API, Data Manipulation, Pandas (Python Package), Data Transformation, Predictive Modeling, Unsupervised Learning, Applied Machine Learning, Scatter Plots, Embeddings, Machine Learning

    Intermediate · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    Packt

    MERN eCommerce from Scratch

    Skills you'll gain: Node.JS, Full-Stack Web Development, Front-End Web Development, Server Side, Application Deployment, Back-End Web Development, JavaScript Frameworks, Web Applications, UI Components, Authentications, User Accounts, Database Development, User Interface (UI), Payment Systems

    Intermediate · Course · 3 - 6 Months

  • Status: Preview
    Preview
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    Vanderbilt University

    Programming for a Networked World

    Skills you'll gain: Event-Driven Programming, Programming Principles, Computer Programming, Distributed Computing, Computer Science, Computational Thinking, Computer Networking, Data Structures, Natural Language Processing, Algorithms, Problem Solving, Application Programming Interface (API)

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
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    Packt

    Applied Generative AI & NLP with Python

    Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, Vector Databases, Retrieval-Augmented Generation, Hugging Face, Generative AI, OpenAI API, Natural Language Processing, Large Language Modeling, OpenAI, LLM Application, Transfer Learning, Embeddings, Python Programming, Model Evaluation

    Intermediate · Course · 3 - 6 Months

  • Status: Free Trial
    Free Trial
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    Edureka

    Advanced Data Handling and Reactive Programming Concepts

    Skills you'll gain: Frontend Performance, Restful API

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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In summary, here are 10 of our most popular api courses

  • Manage and Secure Distributed Services with GKE Managed Service Mesh: Google Cloud
  • Reliable Cloud Infrastructure: Design and Process en Français: Google Cloud
  • Using Cloud Trace on Kubernetes Engine: Google Cloud
  • Generative AI for Code Completion : Coursera
  • Architecting with Google Compute Engine in italiano: Google Cloud
  • Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions (AZ-305): Packt
  • Web Scraping Tutorial with Scrapy and Python for Beginners: Packt
  • Machine Learning with PySpark: Recommender System: Coursera
  • MERN eCommerce from Scratch: Packt
  • Programming for a Networked World : Vanderbilt University

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