Operate Integrations Securely
Learn to run API integrations in production: manage and rotate API keys, verify signed webhooks, log and alert on API calls, and test against real APIs.
Operate Integrations Securely badgeComplete all 4 lessons to earn it. About 2.7 hours.
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What you'll be able to do
- Issue, scope, inject and rotate API keys per service and environment without downtime
- Verify HMAC-signed webhooks over the raw body with a replay window and constant-time comparison
- Log every API call as structured data with credits, latency and request identifiers, and no secrets
- Alert on error classes and credit burn, and hand support the identifiers that find your call
- Test integrations with pure units, recorded fixtures and bounded live contract tests in CI
This course is one of three skill areas on exam APV-300, APIVerve Certified Engineer: Production Integrations: 10 of its 30 questions. See the full path
Syllabus
- Manage API keys in productionStart hereRun API keys like infrastructure: one key per service and environment, secrets managers, scoping and IP allow-lists, zero-downtime rotation and leak response.
- Verify webhook signatures with HMACVerify signed webhooks: HMAC-SHA256 over the raw body, t= and v1= signature headers, a replay window, constant-time comparison and rejecting before parsing.
- Monitor API integrations with logs and alertsLog every API call as structured data, redact keys and PII, set SLOs and alerts on error classes and credit burn, and give support the IDs that find your call.
- Test API integrations against real APIsTest API integrations in layers: pure units, recorded fixtures, live contract tests on a scoped key, null premium fields, fixture drift and bounded CI spend.