APIs at the Crossroads From Integration Glue to Intelligence Infrastructure
summary
Built a GIS server that manages a terabyte of network data with a client SDK in C and a Unix fork-per-connection server, then repurposed it as a web service using CGI + Java applet and SVF that feeds into what becomes SVG; created an XML endpoint for Rail Access Corp — arguably Australia's first web API in 1997 — and traces the rise and fall of CORBA, SOAP and REST, warns of API sprawl 100x and argues for AI to manage authenticity and security.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:38Early APIs and spatial data
- 7:52World Wide Web and first APIs
- 11:53CORBA and protocol wars
- 17:38SOAP and web services rise and fall
- 22:45REST, JSON, and API languages
- 25:40Why REST won
- 26:45Polyglot API landscape
- 27:50Service-oriented architecture and microservices
- 29:16API evolution lessons
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