APIs are how modern enterprises expose value — and Apigee is Google Cloud's platform for managing them at scale: security, traffic control, mediation, analytics, and a developer ecosystem in front of your backends. This course takes you from fundamentals to advanced delivery, including using Apigee as an AI/LLM gateway.
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Who this is for
Engineers and architects building or operating APIs on Apigee (Edge / X / hybrid). Helpful: basic HTTP, REST, and OAuth familiarity. No prior Apigee experience required — we start at the concepts.
What you'll learn
- Fundamentals & Architecture — what an API gateway does, Apigee's components, and request flow.
- Building API Proxies — proxy vs target endpoints, flows, conditions, and your first proxy.
- Policies & Security — traffic management, mediation, OAuth/JWT/API keys — and policy anti-patterns.
- Environments & Deployment — orgs, environments, revisions, and safe promotion.
- CI/CD Pipelines — automating proxy build, test, and deploy.
- AI Integration & Best Practices — Apigee as an AI gateway, plus the consolidated do/don't list.
The big picture
Apigee sits between consumers and your backends, applying policies (security, traffic, mediation) declaratively — so cross-cutting concerns live in the gateway, not in every service.
How to use this course
Work the pages in order; each builds the next. Examples use Apigee policy XML and the management tooling (apigeecli / Maven plugin). Pair with the official Apigee docs and a trial org you can deploy to.
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