State of the API: Insights into the Future of APIs
summary
A 13,500‑person industry survey finds developers make up about half of respondents and non‑developers include product, marketing and C‑suite roles; 13,500 respondents shows APIs are organization‑wide. The top obstacle to producing APIs is lack of time (52.3%) while the top obstacle to consuming them is lack of documentation (54.3%). REST dominates (93.4%); JSON Schema (75.6%), Swagger 2.0 (43.9%) and OpenAPI 3.0 (27.8%) lead specs. Nearly half (45.7%) plan to increase API investment and over 60% report being somewhat or fully API‑first.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:10Agenda
- 2:00Survey Results
- 2:45Developers vs NonDevelopers
- 4:25Rise of API First
- 8:00Lack of Time
- 9:20People Processes Platforms
- 12:10Lack of Documentation
- 12:50The Future of APIs
- 14:40Architecture Styles
- 17:10Most Popular APIs
- 18:50Future of APIs
- 20:20Data
- 22:10Questions
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