APIs as Agent of Change
summary
Argues that APIs act through four concrete powers — open vision, super experience, breaking walls, platform superstar — and gives specifics: BMW ConnectedDrive integrates Teaser/Napster and DriveNow as distributors; SpareBank One builds a specialized loan API to finance solar panels; CustomerNG cuts weather-data consumption cost by 3x cost reduction via a reusable internal weather API; monetization is mostly indirect (under 5% direct), tracked by client acquisition, cost savings and risk mitigation; organization shifts to product teams per line and a lightweight platform team, using REST, streams/event buses and microservice wrappers to unblock legacy and scale to 11 million users.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:58What people are looking for
- 2:02The two views
- 3:01The four superpowers
- 4:04Open vision
- 6:45Create experience
- 12:21Breaking walls
- 12:42You need bricks
- 13:01Breaking the wall
- 16:26API as Agent of Change
- 17:37Embed API Capabilities within Lines of Business
- 19:09Create Superstars
- 23:51Summary
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