API Design

DC Web API User Group, September 2013

Kin Lane

• Presidential Innovation Fellow
• 20+ Year Databases

The API Evangelist

What I Really Look Like

How Do You Describe An API?

Quantifying API Interface

Swagger by Wordnik

API Blueprint by Apiary

Markdown vs. JSON

Tools for Deploying APIs - Swagger

Aggregation

Interoperability

Automation

Backedn as a Service (BaaS)

Real-Time

Scripting

Voice

Programmable Web

The End

By Kin Lane (@kinlane)