Navigating Modern API Platforms: Insights & Strategies
summary
Argues APIs follow a three-phase evolution from SOAP/XML legacy to REST/JSON microservices to a data-first next gen where gRPC and MQTT enable tiny devices; gives concrete patterns: API Gateway doing schema validation, queues/topics for fire-and-forget, saga coordination across services, and dead-letter queue retries with counters for failed backend calls. Cites Postman usage trends (JSON Schema and OpenAPI top) and notes webhooks and cloud events gaining real traffic.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00API platforms evolution
- 3:15Speaker background
- 5:01Agenda overview
- 6:04Synchronous communication
- 8:15Asynchronous fundamentals
- 10:42Synchronous API implementation
- 12:07Asynchronous API strategies
- 14:14Fault tolerance in async
- 17:06Service-to-service async
- 18:32Saga pattern for transactions
- 21:22Sync versus async
- 23:07Synchronous API approaches in depth
- 27:18Asynchronous API approaches in depth
- 29:48Messages versus events
- 31:35Closing remarks & Q&A
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