Kin Lane

API Evangelist

Business of APIs

API Days Mediterranea - 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

11,455 APIs

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 Design

API Definitions

Interactive API Documentation

Server Side Code

Client Side Code

Mock Interface

Testing

Monitoring

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

APIs

Glossary (Links)

APIs.io

Business Contract

Definition (Truth)
Terms of Service
Privacy
Service Level Agreement
Service Accord
Interface License
Data License
Code License
Deprecation Policy
Roadmap
Change Log
Rate Limits
Uptime / Availability
Pricing
Service Tiers
Support

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By Kin Lane (@kinlane)