APIs are the new skin of your organisation
summary
Claim: APIs act as an organizational membrane that mediates inside/outside interactions, so they belong to a distinct scope economy between cost-driven scale and market-driven differentiation. Practical moves: apply service design and empathy maps to improve developer experience, defer configuration to consumers, treat reusable data and well-formed functions as harvestable products, and manage the API layer with its own governance. Examples cited include platform dynamics like TomTom traffic API and AWS showing value-in-use.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:41Why APIs
- 2:50Membranes
- 4:11Systems
- 7:32Service Design
- 14:47How do APIs fit in
- 15:55The wall of confusion
- 16:37Three economies
- 19:51Reusable data
- 21:46Outro
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