APIs for the B2B Social Tech Revolution
summary
A live B2B network connects 500,000 companies across 190 countries and transacts one billion dollars a month via a REST API that is modeled on UBL 2.1 (65 document types, ~2,000 information items), uses OAuth1 today, and adds converters for CSV/legacy ERPs. Design tradeoffs: heavy XML semantics enable global interoperability but raise client complexity; CI deployment and an app framework power extensions; a Kaggle machine-learning contest already doubles paper-to-electronic invoice conversion accuracy.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Start
- 2:38What is Alibaba?
- 4:03Zooming out: What is Alibaba about?
- 4:57Zooming out: The bigger opportunity
- 7:38Back to APIs..
- 11:50About UBL
- 12:44UBL example
- 13:03Tradeshift is..
- 14:04How it works
- 19:17Some design considerations
- 21:48Apps, B2B and social tech
- 24:08Resources
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