3scale's Nicolas presented "APIs and the Bot Revolution" at the APIDays Nordic event on May 18. He covered the importance of making bots smart by using APIs. APIs for bots need specific API design considerations and some different thinking about DX. Bots and APIs have the potential to introduce a paradigm shift about how we interact with technology.

1. APIs and the Bot
Revolution
Nicolas Grenié
Hacker in Residence at 3scale
@picsoung
APIdays Nordic
19th May 2016
Tampere, Finland
How Bots are changing APIs

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@picsoung

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3scale.net/jobs

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700+ clients
billions of API calls per month

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7. Bots

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SlackFund: $80 M to Slack Bot Startups

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350k new users each day
15Bn messages daily
100 million MAUs
source: http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/23/telegram-now-has-100-million-monthly-active-users-a-60-increase-in-9-months/

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350k new users each day
15Bn messages daily
100 million MAUs
source: http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/23/telegram-now-has-100-million-monthly-active-users-a-60-increase-in-9-months/
$1 million to Bot Devs

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900 million MAUs
launched on April 12th 2016
10k+ developers
Call of Duty bot exchanged
6M messages in a week
source: http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/10/facebook-chatbot-analytics/

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300M users
6000 bots
215M users
bot APIs just launched
700M users

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It goes beyond text

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It goes beyond text

16. Agenda
1. APIs are bot enablers
2. Bots are changing APIs
3. APIs as tools for bots

17. I. APIs
are
bot enablers

18. Bots
without APIs
are stupid

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Birdly

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Birdly

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Alterra Travel Agent

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Poncho

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APIs for Bots
"
Platform APIs
#
$

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APIs for Bots
"
Platform APIs
#
$
Data APIs
☼
&

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APIs for Bots
"
Platform APIs
#
$
Data APIs
☼
&
'
(
Action
APIs

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intelligence
and data
come from
APIS

27. II. Bots are
changing
APIs

28. Bots will force
you to change
your API

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UI
) *

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CI
+

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+ # $
!
"
Conversational
Interface

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generic
input

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generic input
easy win
=

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Example

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Issues
•Results are not organized
ex. API search for “Uber”
•Need another API call to refine result

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Limited
number
of items

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Sort by
relevance

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Hypermedia
design

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🐰APIbunny🍫
Example
built with

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44. III. APIs as
tools for bots

45. Bots are your
new API
consumers

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make the
bot builder’s
life
easier

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bot builders
are your
new
audience

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is
your API
bot ready?

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radical
change in
internet
consumption

51. Takeaways
•challenge your API on
no-UI applications
•target for bot usage
•paradigm shift to CI

52. Microsoft Tay

54. Love bots

55. References
Daft Punk by Kooroshication https://www.flickr.com/photos/
kooroshication/8881035467 (CC)