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Where's My DevOps API?
Matthew Erbs discusses the need for applying lessons learned building APIs for customers to the creation of internal APIs for the DevOps team.
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REST Considered Harmful
Ross Garrett explores how design decisions may be leading to poor UX, discussing the principles of reactive applications and how streaming APIs can deliver significant benefits over RESTful APIs.
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A Darwinian Approach to APIs in Government Health
Bruce Haefele shares from the successes and failures implementing an API strategy at Healthdirect Australia.
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Typed Services Using Finch
Tom Adams outlines the problems faced when building small services, and how using a good type system can help, introducing Finch and highlighting how it addresses these concerns.
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Learnings from Implementing a Hypermedia Client
Uli Holtel discusses the principles of hypermedia APIs, how to decouple from media type formats, using profiles, 'fully dynamic' vs. 'tightly coupled' client, tools, code artifacts and examples.
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Hypermedia Web API as a Network of Data
Todd Brackley discusses accessing the “network of data” through a RESTful hypermedia API, exposing it to developers, testers, analysts and clients.
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How to Create Genuine Value for Internal and External API Consumers
Steven Willmott looks at how APIs’ value helps genuine success for an API program and an organization's platform initiatives as a whole, including examples and takeaways.
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The RESTed NARWHL: an Approach to Building Adaptable APIs
Rob Zazueta introduces RESTed NARWHL, a design framework for building RESTful APIs that adhere to current best practices while being able to rapidly adapt to change.
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Driving Customer Engagement & Acquisition in the Digital Era
Rana Pereis explores case studies of how banks are using APIs to evolve new digital offerings and business models that help drive customer engagement and acquisition.
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A Review of Eclipse 4, Its APIs and Architecture
Tom Schindl reviews Eclipse 4’s API and architecture, pinpointing successes, failures and mistakes.
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API or Die Trying
Brett Adam shares how Zendesk built an API-first company and some tips and tricks learned "from the field" on how to build an API that developers love.
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5 Anti-Patterns in Designing APIs
Ali Kheyrollahi elaborates on the Client-Server tenet of REST which focuses on separation of concerns and responsibilities between the client and the server.