Designing & Consuming a Cloud 2.0 API
Andrew Phillips discusses Cloud API 2.0: the current state of cloud computing, why a Cloud API, the choices made while designing jClouds API, and how to consume such an API.
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Is IQueryable A Bad Choice For APIs?
Mark Seemann suggests in his article “IQueryable is Tight Coupling” that designing an API such that it exposes an IQueryable
Web API Design Book - Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love
Apigee, provider of API products and technology for enterprises and developers, has announced the release of "Web API Design: Crafting Interfaces that Developers Love", a free e-book on designing Web APIs. The e-book is a collection of REST API design practices developed in collaboration with various API teams around the world undergoing the Apigee design workshop.
Best Practices For HTTP API Evolvability
As the title suggests, in Best Practices For HTTP API Evolvability, Benjamin Carlyle, set out to define priciples and practices for designing systems, that are built around HTTP API’s. Systems, that are extensible and can evolve over time.
eBay Announces ql.io
After a teaser with clues last week, Subbu and the engineering team at eBay have unveiled ql.io, a SQL inspired dsl to enable frictionless composition of web API's with a SQL like syntax.
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Interview and Book Excerpt: Jaroslav Tulach's Practical API Design
Jaroslav Tulach's latest book Practical API Design covers the topic of API design of software projects. He brings his experience as the architect for NetBeans IDE project to the writing of this book. InfoQ spoke with Jaroslav about his new book, the main motivation for writing it and other topics. We are also making an excerpt from the book available for our readers.
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Techniques for Scaling the Netflix API
Daniel Jacobson covers the history of Netflix’s APIs, adaptation for the cloud, development and testing, resiliency, and the future of their APIs.
Building a Great Web API
Evan Cooke discussing ways of building Simple APIs with fast signup, a clear value proposition, efficient quick start, concise documentation, easy authentication and debuggable.
The API Platform
Gregory Brail discusses about APIs, what an API platform is, how the typical API call flows-security, authorization, authentication, caching, etc., and some of the challenges in using an API platform.
Writing Usable APIs in Practice
Giovanni Asproni presents techniques for writing usable APIs: using user's perspective, naming, the caller should have the control, explicit context, error reporting, logging, organizing.
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Dean Wampler on Programming Languages
This interview begins with a discussion of functional programming, the use of Scala by programmers trained in Java and the differences between purely functional languages like Haskell and hybrids like Scala. Later in the interview other programming languages are discussed along with the notion of programming paradigms and the need for combining both paradigms and languages to best solve problems.