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Generic Hypermedia and Domain-Specific APIs: RESTing in the ALPS
Mike Amundsen describes the ALPS standard, a way to define the data and workflow details for a Web application and apply these details consistently regardless of the media type in use.
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Building APIs by Building on APIs
Paul Downey and David Heath discuss the UK Government Digital Service API Design Principles, the lessons learnt from building the GOV.UK publishing platform and transactional services on APIs.
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Functional Reactive Programming in the Netflix API
Ben Christensen describes how Neflix has optimized their API using a functional reactive programming (modeled after Rx) in a polyglot Java stack.
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The Structure of API Revolutions
Daniel Jacobson shares advice on dealing with evolving APIs based on his experience with Netflix APIs.
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API Conf Keynote: Jeff Meisel, National Instruments
Jeff Meisel shares insight in National Instruments’ attempt to create an open API for their software spanning 25 years.
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OpenStack Extensions: Challenges and Lessons Learned in the Development and Governance of Extensible REST Services
Jorge Williams shares some of the challenges and lessons learned while adding extensions to OpenStack.
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Test-Driven Web APIs
Ian Robinson discusses creating test-driven, resource-oriented and hypermedia-based web APIs, and constructing clients for consuming them.
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Designing a REST-ful API Using Spring 3
Ben Hale explains how to design and test a RESTful API with Spring MVC, providing an example of a simple game application showing the design principles used.
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The Costs and Benefits of Building Hypermedia APIs (with Node.js)
Mike Amundsen discusses the theory behind building hypermedia APIs combined with real life cases exemplifying the successes and failures of such an endeavor.
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Web API Evolution
Rob Daigneau discusses some of the challenges met when creating and maintaining web APIs, impediments and design patterns for web API evolution.
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The Costs and Benefits of Building Hypermedia APIs (with Node.js)
Mike Amundsen explores a way of designing hypermedia APIs based on messages instead of URIs, plus documenting, extending, versioning and registering hypermedia designs.