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Bots & Messaging Application APIs
Jasmine Anteunis discusses integrating bots with messaging applications.
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GitHub's GraphQL Future
Kyle Daigle shares why GitHub chose GraphQL, how it differs from REST, how GitHub went about implementing it, and how they're using it in production a year later.
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Testing Web Services with QuickCheck
Thomas Arts discusses how to test web services with QuickCheck.
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Beyond REST: Coursera's Journey to GraphQL
Bryan Kane talks about why Coursera is transitioning to GraphQL and shares challenges and learnings from building their GraphQL assembly layer.
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Rethinking CodeGen: IDL, Thrift, gRPC, Ohh My
Cameron Waeland discusses the evolution of Compass and presents their extensible code generation framework which is at the heart of their automatically generated REST to gRPC reverse proxy.
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API Design and the Future of API Descriptions Formats
Zdenek Nemec discusses the birth, evolution, and the current and the foreseeable future of web APIs.
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Scaling Your API Development Workflow
Vincenzo Chianese shares an API development workflow based on culture, understanding, communication and collaboration.
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Building out Hypermedia Clients
Todd Brackley outlines the general engine of a hypermedia client implementation, what API forms look like, and then outlines five design issues useful in creating such clients.
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Automation of Business Processes
Giuliano Lacobelli discusses the challenges faced automating business processes for a company with large API investments.
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GraphQL for All? A Few Things to Think about before Blindly Dumping REST for GraphQL
Arnaud Lauret discusses REST vs. GraphQL, comparing their strengths and weaknesses, suggesting evaluating both before making a decision.
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gRPC: A High Performance, Modern RPC System
David Howden introduces gRPC and outlines its main strengths/weaknesses, and then recounts his experience of migrating from JSON/HTTP-based REST to gRPC, including benefits and issues encountered.
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Building a Hypermedia API in a Few Minutes with the API Platform Framework
Kevin Dunglas introduces the API Platform and shows how to build an API with it.