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Twelve Patterns for Hypermedia Microservices
Mike Amundsen presents 12 patterns and practices for building APIs that can evolve over time and client applications that can adapt to those changes without relying on explicit versioning systems.
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API Design Lessons Learned: Enterprise to Startup
Mohamed El-Geish explores lessons learned at big companies like Microsoft and LinkedIn, and adapts the insights drawn from them to fit a fast-growing startup.
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From Customer Self Service Portals to Web APIs
Florian Marquardt presents how Regiocom has created and uses web APIs to serve the energy market in several countries.
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Reinventing Credit Insurance with APIs
Christophe Spoerry discusses embedding insurance in B2B innovations.
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How to Survive the API Copyright Apocalypse
Steven Willmott recommends avoiding the possible API copyright troubles by sharing API definitions rather than copyrighting them.
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The Future of Your Business Needs an API Program... Now!
Roberto Galves discusses the need and how to develop an API-as-a-Business initiative to face the current economy.
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Your API - Don’t Make Developers Hate It
Adeel Ali shares from experience working with developers in 10 programming languages, covering what works and what not, and how to use automation to create a beautiful developer experience for APIs.
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API Design and the Future of API Descriptions Formats
Zdenek Nemec discusses the birth, evolution, and the current and the foreseeable future of web APIs.
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The State of API Languages
Jerome Louvel discusses the state of API languages, covering especially OAS, RAML and API Blueprint.
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Scaling Your API Development Workflow
Vincenzo Chianese shares an API development workflow based on culture, understanding, communication and collaboration.
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How to Talk about APIs
Andrew Seward presents tips on how to talk about an API and how to create an ubiquitous language for that.
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WebHooks: The API Strikes Back
Phil Nash takes a look at services that use Webhooks, exploring reasons to use WebHooks and the emerging best practices, and discusses implementing WebHook endpoints with live coded examples.