from Web

to a Programmable Web

to a Programmable World

DC Web API User Group, January 31st 2013

Kin Lane

API Evangelist

• 23 Years Database Engineer
• Evangelize APIs to Masses
• Democratizing Power of APIs
• Independent Voice

History of APIs

History of APIs

Commerce

• Salesforce
• eBay
• Amazon
• Paypal

History of APIs

Social

• Flickr (Photos)
• Delicious (Bookmarks)
• Twitter (Messaging)
• Facebook (Friends)

History of APIs

Cloud / Infrastructure / Scalability

• Amazon S3 (Storage)
• Amazon EC2 (Compute)
• Amazon SimpleDB (Data)
• Amazon RDS (Database)

History of APIs

Mobile

• Instagram (Photos)
• Foursquare (Local)
• Pandora (Music)

History of APIs

Data

• Guardian (Journalism)
• Data.Gov (Government)
• World Bank (World)

Number of APIs

2010

Number of APIs

2011

Number of APIs

2012

Tech of APIs

Business of APIs

Politics of APIs

Success of APIs

Why Is It Working?

• Simplicity
• Self-Service
• Developer Centric
• Hackable
• Distributed
• Built on HTTP

Growth of APIs

Today

API Directories

API Hub

Aggregation

Interoperability

Automation

Real-Time

Scripting

Voice

Programmable Web

Mobile

iPad

Quantified Self

Automobile

Buildings & Homes

Sensors

Programmable World

The End

By Kin Lane (@kinlane)