The end of the beginning of APIs
summary
APIs are past “early” but not yet ubiquitous: tens of thousands public and likely millions internal, like the web in the late 90s. Marketing data firm SimilarWeb adds Excel/Docs plugins and gets 80% of API traffic from plugins in six months. Recommendation is to treat developers as partners, automate API creation and teardown, co-design with domain experts, avoid locking interfaces behind copyright, keep security as continuous investment against Black Swan events, and document semantics not just syntax so auto-generated clients actually work.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 5:00The end of the beginning
- 6:00Changes in APIs
- 8:55How proud do you feel
- 10:38Mass API usage in users
- 14:35API creation
- 17:02Uniqueness copyright
- 20:48Security and Trust
- 25:17Syntax vs Semantic
- 30:30Conclusions
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