On the Restlet blog, Yves de Montcheuil shares his 2016 predictions for APIs, and he wrote about the API-powered shopping season on InfoWorld.
Thierry Templier shows a concrete example of using DHC for testing an example API.
Fabienne recorded a screencast on how to create a realtime stock quotes app with APISpark and Streamdata.io.
Guillaume Laforge shares 4 lessons in building a successful open-source community on JAXEnter.
The schedule of APIDays Paris is now available online. Restlet will be on stage, with a session on the state of Web API languages by Jérôme Louvel, a workshop by Jonathan Michaux on public & private APIs, and I’ll be joining our partner Streamdata.IO for another workshop on turning APIs into realtime ones. So come and join us at the conference, we’re looking forward to seeing you!
A couple late items on APIStrat:
- Nicolas Grenié presented about API discovery, introducing APIs.json.
- Kin Lane spoke about the API lifecycle, and goes back in time through a quick history of computing, and also makes a parallel with the subway map design and how his work of API evangelist is about designing such maps, with lines being different concerns in the API lifecycle.
- A replay of the API discovery roundtable with Kin Lane, Jérôme Louvel, Nicolas Grenié, Natalie Kerns.
- Keith Casey shared his recap of the conference
Google releases its Cloud Vision API, which lets you label things in pictures, do character and language recognition, facial / landmark / logo detection, and more.
On DZone, an interview with Dan Gebhardt on JSON API, comparing with other hypermedia approaches, the state of the community, what’s coming up in the next release, the upcoming extension support, and useful links on the topic.
On the Amazon Web Services blog, Stefano Buliani introduces and demonstrates JAWS, a Node-based framework on top of Amazon API Gateway and Amazon Lambda to scalable services and APIs.
The second part on designing evolvable APIs, on interaction, on the Nordic APIs blog, by Pedro Felix (you can read the first part too), covering HTTP methods, HTTP status codes, and caching.
Kin Lane says there’s a growing need for API virtualization solutions, with a recipe of on demand Docker containers, virtualizing APIs with common API definitions, and with provided data. Kin also questions how to price API resources.
Jennifer Riggins explains that API documentation is essential to your business strategy. API documentation is about storytelling. Jennifer suggests to try to even start writing the documentation before the API itself. And the API should be treated as an product. Last but not least, remember that API documentation perfection is never done, and there’s always something to improve.
Jennifer also wrote about what good API management looks like and whether we should automate our API documentation.
Gergely Nemeth goes through web authentication methods with Node.JS, with basic authentication, cookies, tokens, signatures, and one-time passwords.
Generate API documentation for your Go-based APIs from your tests with a simple addition to Go’s testing package, with the test2doc project on Github.
Beautiful API documentation with negligible overhead, by Florian Benz, with Spring REST Docs, and Asciidoctor.
With “Black Friday” behind us, Runscope’s Ashley Waxman is going shopping for retail APIs.
A funny Bond-inspired newsletter from Streamdata.io.
A bird’s eye view on API development by Frederick Vanbrabant.
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