Find the best spots for the July 4th fireworks! Restlet launched a fully-hosted Web API with assets in a Github file store, and data in a Google Sheets wrapper, to list all the fireworks in the US.
Our very own Thierry Templier explains how to easily develop web applications with the APISpark API platform on ProgrammableWeb, and Guillaume Laforge guides you through managing APIs with APISpark. Also on ProgrammableWeb, Brian Krausz from Stripe tells us why it’s okay to design imperfect APIs.
Also don’t forget the Summer of APIs! If you want to participate in this virtual hackathon, on Open Data and APIs. The summer’s gonna be hot!
Mike Vizard cover recent partnerships of SnapLogic with 3scale and Restlet, and explains the trouble with APIs and how to fix it, and tells us about the legal tussle between Oracle & Google to foster open API development.
Reacting to the Supreme Court decision in the API copyrightability case (Oracle vs Google), Kin Lane claims that APIs will not be suffocated by Oracle and the courts, but by each of us not sharing API designs! With a nice humor note, Steven Willmott makes 3scale copyright database store API! Matt McLarty covers the topic too saying the defense RESTs.
Lorinda Brando listed two new tools and companies taking advantage of Swagger, with Restlet and Axway.
Tom Huston on the Smartbear blog tells you all you’ll ever need to know about hypermedia APIs!
Jason Harmon shares his API design anti-patterns presentation slides.
Brian Pagano lists 5 common mistakes of API management.
KimonoLabs as an alternative to the closing Yahoo! Pipes, combining different data sources, and streaming them live with StreamData.IO.
Keith Casey invites people to combine cURL with the power of the jq tool to process JSON payloads on the command-line.
Kin Lane found an interesting gem, with a custom Swagger UI with a Slate documentation touch.
Postman introduces the Postman Collection format schema, to validate your JSON collections.
Nordics API features an article on Green APIs that promote sustainability and climate action, by Bill Doerrfeld.
On API2Cart, Lexy Maiko explains why it’s important to build long-lasting APIs, from an IoT perspective.
In a Q&A session, on TechTarget, Greg Brail says that in APIs, it’s hard to go wrong with JSON and how to boost API usability.
More news:
- API2Cart’s API digest #18
- REST API notes by Matthew Reinbold
- Kin Lane’s weekly API report