This week in API land #28
The big news of the week is the launch of the Open API Definition Initiative, hosted by the Linux Foundation, and supported by 3Scale, Apigee, Capital One, Google, IBM, Intuit, Microsoft, PayPal, and...
View ArticleThe never-ending debate on REST API design
Last week, I had the chance to present at the Devoxx conference in Antwerp, Belgium, one of the biggest tech conferences in Europe, gathering over 3500 developers each year. This year, I talked about...
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Navigating HTTP Status Codes
APIs, like any server, can send and receive requests, these can take the form of either asking for information or sending data. HTTP status codes provide us with information on what occurred during the...
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And the Summer of APIs is a wrap!
As you may have heard, we organized a virtual hackathon this summer, the Summer of APIs, and since the end of September we’ve been evaluating the different projects submitted. It was great seeing the...
View ArticleThis week in API land #29
Let’s start the news, selfishly, with the ones from Restlet! The fun highlight for this week is the D3.js powered interactive HTTP Status Codes Map, that illustrate the HTTP status codes in the form of...
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10 years of REST APIs in Java
Back in May, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Java programming language, and now is the time to celebrate another milestone — the 10th birthday of Restlet Framework, the most used framework to...
View ArticleA quick recap on APIStrat
The API Strategy & Practice conference in Austin, Texas, is over already. Jérôme Louvel, CTO of Restlet, participated to a round table on API discovery, hubs and IDEs. Here are the slides that...
View ArticleThis week in API land #30
A round number, for this week in API land, with the 30th edition! And I’ll start with another round number, with this interview I did of Jérôme Louvel, on the 10th anniversary of Restlet Framework: 10...
View ArticleRestlet’s Official 2016 Predictions for APIs
The API industry is shifting from infancy into its grown-up years. More companies than ever are rolling out large scale API strategies, transforming the job of both frontend and backend developers, and...
View ArticleThis week in API land #31
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...
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Tweeting from #GartnerAADI
Last week, I was privileged to attend the Gartner Application Architecture, Development & Integration Summit (AADI for short) in Las Vegas. Like I have done in the past (in prior lives), I have...
View ArticleAPIdays Paris recap
APIdays Paris just closed its doors yesterday, after two intense days of conference on the theme of automating IT, business and the whole society with APIs. I particularly enjoyed the show and the...
View ArticleThis week in API land #32
Last week took place APIdays Paris 2015, and the API community has been abuzz about the great content, discussions, ideas, and topics covered. Restlet was present with a booth, as well as part of the...
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The Star Wars API interview
The highly anticipated “Star Wars: the force awakens” new episode of the Star Wars franchise will be in display worldwide, and millions of fans will rush into theaters to watch it. Paul Hallett...
View ArticleThis week in API land #33
The world is abuzz with Star Wars, the force awakens! I had the chance to interview Paul Hallett about the Star Wars API! And don’t worry, if you haven’t seen the movie yet, there’s no spoilers in...
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This week in API land – Christmas edition!
It’s the Christmas edition of my API news column. The whole Restlet team is joining me to wish you a Merry Christmas! A startup journey on Amazon Web Services: from bare metal monolith, to serverless...
View ArticleThis week in API land #35
Thierry Templier talks about the connector capability of APISpark to manage existing Web APIs, and will soon uncover part 2, showing how to apply the connector to a Restlet Framework based API. Thierry...
View ArticleThis week in API land #36
Following up a first part, Thierry Templier continues on his journey to explain what brings the APISpark platform to a Restlet Framework based API. For InfoQ, Jérôme Louvel interviewed Tony Tam on the...
View ArticleThis week in API land #37
Thierry Templier dives into Node.JS based-APIs, and what APISpark can bring to them, using Swagger for the API definition, and Express.JS and HAPI for the implementation. Jérôme Louvel interviewed Dion...
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Introducing new plans, new unified capabilities across the Restlet Platform
Today marks an important milestone in Restlet’s mission to deliver a comprehensive and unified platform for API developers (which I will use here in the broad sense of the term: developers...
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