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Get Some REST: Building Great APIs for Great Apps | Allen Pike, Steamclock Software
- 1. Get Some REST The why and how of great APIs Allen Pike, Steamclock Software
- 4. APIs in 2013
- 5. Great APIs are table stakes • UI is for users • API is for developers • They need to be clear, fast and easy
- 9. Different models, different APIs different APIs • Up front purchase • Pure adoption • A subscription SaaS • API is the product
- 10. Help us help you • Internal developers • Consultants • Partners • Customers • Fans
- 11. Building a great API
- 12. APIaaS
- 13. No surprises please • Consistent • Standard • Plain • Boring
- 14. #!QOX!# on,361926297#!QOX!#Daniel Burka,Google Ventu o-founder,@apike,917292#!QOX!#Tobias Lütke,S ae,29817237#!QOX!#Robert Scoble,Rackspace,St utsol,500px,CEO,@oleggutsol,103872#!QOX!#Ell ngh,Tempo AI,CEO
- 15. Enter REST • REpresentational State Transfer • The modern best practice • Uniform methods, no surprises • Contrasts with SOAP RPC vinaysahni.com/best-practices-for-a-pragmatic- restful-api
- 16. RESTing up • GET,POST,PUT,PATCH,DELETE • Embraces HTTP • Explorable with simple tools • Fundamentally scalable
- 17. JSON { "XML": [ "Verbose", "Heavy Handed", "Overkill" ], "JSON": [ "Human Readable", "Lightweight", "The new gold standard" ]}
- 19. Care and feeding
- 25. Future proof your API • Always version • Sometimes you release a bad API • New versions mark breaking changes • Deprecate and document
- 26. Support your API • Documentation is just the seed • Blog for news • Forums and Stack Overflow for help • Intercom.io for actual support
- 27. Drive adoption • Promote novel API uses • Fund hackathons and sponsorships • SEO • Double down on examples and docs • Royal decree
- 29. Recap• APIs are crucial • Follow standard REST design • Return JSON, gzipped, over https • Support with great documentation • Scale with versioning and marketing
- 30. Go make great things. apike steamclock.com Get the slides here!
Editor's Notes
- - I run Steamclock Software- At Steamclock, we build iOS, Android, and JavaScript apps - Our work has been featured by Apple, CNN, and Fast Company- Before founding Steamclock, I was a Software Engineer at Apple
- Triopoly No explosion of viable platformsNo one platform dominatesJavaScript apps increasingly consume APIs
- Sep 2012: Twitter restricts their APIMar 2013: Netflix restricts their APIJul 2013: Google cans ReaderWhat is going on?
- Twilio, Urban Airship, Stripe Github, dropbox Instapaper
- Great APIs lead to great apps
- Apple iCloud APIsDropbox APIParse (now owned by FB)Other APIs as a Service
- It was like an archeological dig The CTO had no idea this was happening
- Not a silver bullet, but at least bronze
- Some Enterprises will demand XML or other noise, but provide JSON by default
- it's cheap, it's secure, it's easy to support now saves time and bandwidth. Stack Overflow doesn't even accept GZIP off, this is becoming more common
- Story This is an alpha-stage platform built by a team of 3. The docs were so thoughtful that Justin trusted them immediately Docs are a marketing message
- Swagger is a tool and specification for generating API docs
- This is on the homepage of stripe.com. Hell yes. Show both a simple and a complex example
- Documentation needs to be googled Reasonable SEO No PDFs, no login walls
- Twilio is the top 3 results The #1 result is their REST API docs!
- Versions telegraph and enable change Sets the expectation that things may change
- Start by solving a problem
- APIs all the way down The Amazon SOA architecture