Kin Lane

API Evangelist

Remembering Why It All Works

API Days Berlin - May, 2014

• Some Quick Background On Myself...
• 25 Years Database Engineer
• 15 Years Web Applications
• 8 Years Cloud Computing
• 4 Years Studying APIs

www.apievangelist.com

Focus

• Technology of APIs
• Business of APIs
• Politics of APIs

Target

• Individuals
• Startups
• SMB
• Enterprise
• Government

History of APIs

Modular Resources

Distributed Resources

Nimbleness and Agility

Innovation

What We Have Learned

Developer Portal

Self-Service

Interactive Documentation

Helper Code

Communication

Terms of Service

Support

Rate Limits

Acess Tiers

Roadmap

API Design

Mock Interface

Collaboration

Management

Evangelism and Storytelling

Monetization

APIs Are Delivering

Websites

Mobile

Tablets

Data Analysis and Visualizations

Internet of Things

Trends

Aggregation

Automation and Reciprocity

Real-Time

Hypermedia (HATEOAS)

Remember Why This All Has Been Working!

Simplicity

Easy, Low Cost Access To Resources

Working Together (Community)

Permissive Terms of Service

Operational Transparency

What we Need To Do!

# 1

Respect Privacy

Not The New Oil!

Most Valuable Assets

# 2

Stop Re-inventing The Wheel

API Description

• WSDL
• RSDL
• WADL
• I/O Docs
• Swagger
• RAML
• API Blueprint

Application Media Types

• vnd.api+json
• vnd.collection+json
• vnd.collection.next+json
• vnd.hal+json
• vnd.heroku+json
• vnd.siren+json
• json-patch+json
• ld+json

Data Models

• OData
• JSONP
• JSONModel
• JSON-LD
• BSON
• GeoJSON
• JSON-RPC

Common Interfaces

• /users
• /images
• /articles
• /blogs
• /videos
• /products
• /messages

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By Kin Lane (@kinlane)