Tyk API Management Platform – Basics, Learn about APIs, API Management and the Tyk Platform.
What you”ll learn:
- Able to articulate what APIs and API Management is.
- Understanding of the Tyk Gateway, Dashboard and Pump Components.
- Understanding of the Tyk Developer Portal.
- More advanced understanding of API Management Configuration.
Course Description
Tyk is a full lifecycle API Management platform used by some of the biggest businesses in the world to manage their API infrastructure. You can read more about Tyk on our website.
This course is presented by Firas Aboushamalah, who is a Solutions Architect at Tyk – looking after our prospective customers and supporting them in finding robust solutions to their API Management problems. It’s been created in conjunction with multiple teams in the business, to give you a high level overview on the product and company. We will build out more in depth certifications and specialisations over time.
In this course we’ll give an overview on Tyk the company and where we started, we will also summarise what APIs and API Management mean at a high level.
We will then take you through an overview of the different components of the Tyk Platform, those being the Tyk Gateway, Tyk Dashboard and Tyk Pump.
We’ll dive into a bit more detail on some features like authorisation, authentication, policies, organisations, users and user groups to give you a wider understanding on the key aspects of the platform.
We will then go a little deeper into analytics, quotas and rate limits before giving a comprehensive overview of our Tyk Developer Portal.
At the end of this course you should have a full understanding of the Tyk Platform at a high level. If you get stuck, or have any questions you’re welcome to post them to our community forum.
