Get Some REST: Building Great APIs for Great Apps | Allen Pike, Steamclock Software

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Allen Pike, Co-Founder, Steamclock Software With the modern explosion of apps and platforms, building APIs has become a core skill for any technology business. Building great web based REST APIs will make scaling your business easier, allow third parties to accelerate your growth, and make supporting new platforms and devices much easier. We'll see why and how building great APIs is key to building great software. Attendees will learn: - The state of APIs in 2013 - What makes for a great API - How to make developers love you - How to feed and care for your APIs

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Get Some REST
The why and how of great APIs
Allen Pike, Steamclock Software

Great APIs are table
stakes
• UI is for users
• API is for developers
• They need to be clear, fast and
easy

Different models,
different APIs
different APIs
• Up front purchase
• Pure adoption
• A subscription SaaS
• API is the product

Help us help you
• Internal developers
• Consultants
• Partners
• Customers
• Fans

No surprises please
• Consistent
• Standard
• Plain
• Boring

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Enter REST
• REpresentational State Transfer
• The modern best practice
• Uniform methods, no surprises
• Contrasts with SOAP RPC
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restful-api

RESTing up
• GET,POST,PUT,PATCH,DELETE
• Embraces HTTP
• Explorable with simple tools
• Fundamentally scalable

JSON
{ "XML": [ "Verbose",
"Heavy Handed",
"Overkill" ], "JSON": [
"Human Readable",
"Lightweight", "The new gold
standard" ]}

Future proof your
API
• Always version
• Sometimes you release a bad
API
• New versions mark breaking
changes
• Deprecate and document

Support your API
• Documentation is just the seed
• Blog for news
• Forums and Stack Overflow for
help
• Intercom.io for actual support

Drive adoption
• Promote novel API uses
• Fund hackathons and
sponsorships
• SEO
• Double down on examples and
docs
• Royal decree

Recap• APIs are crucial
• Follow standard REST design
• Return JSON, gzipped, over
https
• Support with great
documentation
• Scale with versioning and
marketing

Go make great
things.
apike
steamclock.com
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