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Four Lessons from 10+ Years of APIs
Adam Duvander shares 4 API lessons: outsourcing development, possible regrets on making an API public, not all need your API, and an API can provide more opportunities that one can build.
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Moving Beyond the Monolith
David Harrison presents the API and culture journey at freelancer.com.
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REST for an Hour
Lyndsey Padget introduces the basic principles of RESTful APIs, terminology, design patterns, data, pitfalls, best practices, and others.
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Practical Insights when Designing an API from Scratch
Paul Glavich discusses design decisions to be made when building a new API regarding versioning, hypermedia usage, authentication and other aspects.
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API Design Methodology
Mike Amundsen describes a methodology for designing Web APIs (based on the book "RESTful Web APIs") that allows to map key aspects of a business into a usable, scalable, and flexible interface.
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Hack Your API First
Troy Hunt explain how to discover the vulnerabilities of one��s own APIs, identifying common security anti-patterns.
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The Programmable World with APIs & Containers
Kin Lane discusses the opportunities of deploying high value, re-mixable APIs, using Docker.
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The Road to JSON API 1.0
Steve Klabnik discusses how the JSON API (jsonapi.org) helps building APIs in JSON, and the process of bringing the standard to the 1.0 release.
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Liberating the API Economy with Scale-Free Networks
Mike Amundsen explores the "Scale-Free" (long tail) rule of complex systems and how it affect the producing and consuming of web APIs.
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Building IoT APIs - Dos and Don’ts
Preeti Lovekar, Simon Lemay discuss the major components of an IOT platform, dos and don’ts when building APIs for them, common pitfalls and solutions using open source tools and standards.
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Restful Services in Grails
Ken Kousen demonstrates the RESTful features in Grails and shows how to take advantage of them with annotations, controllers, renderers and more.
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Building Awesome APIs with Grails
Chris Latimer discusses how to develop APIs ready for public consumption with Grails.