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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.
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Evolution of the PayPal API Platform: Enabling the Future of Money
Deepak Nadig discusses how PayPal’s API Platform evolved both internally and externally, the principles and patterns used, and how it is enabling the future of Money.
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Rethinking API Design with Traits
Cedric Champeau discusses the concept of traits introduced by Groovy 2.3. Traits look like interfaces, but allow the developer to add both implementation and state into it.
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Less, but Better
Michael Garvey discusses about understanding of common challenges, and learning strategies, principles and practices to overcome them and craft better design for your interfaces.
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All Your API Are Belong to Us
Paul Hill presents a case study of building an API with a short deadline using Node.js, WebSocket, MongoDB, JSON, Promises, Swagger, Memcached, Varnish and Hypermedia ReST.