Know Your Developer: Changing Business for the Better
summary
eBay describes a 20‑year developer program that revamps in 2016 into a consistent REST portfolio with 26 API families and about 250 modern methods (600 methods including legacy SOAP), publishes OpenAPI v2 and v3 specs and Swagger clients for 40+ stacks, and open sources SDKs for transparency. Monitoring and governance drive decisions; usage analysis of 200 million API calls per hour spots gaps and guides evolution. The program keeps legacy endpoints live, incentivizes migration with new capabilities, and treats security and privacy as continuous auditing rather than one‑off fixes.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Intro
- 2:29Start
- 4:16Know Your Developer
- 5:44Apis play an integral role
- 6:57Celebrating 20 years
- 8:02Apis are forever
- 10:08Customer satisfaction
- 11:59Governance
- 13:27Design
- 14:54Open API
- 16:39SDKs
- 17:54Apis
- 19:08Api Usage
- 21:43Data Privacy
- 22:46Recap
- 23:14Questions
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