APIs Are Eating the Universe
summary
Postman reports a 37,000‑respondent survey showing 51% of teams spend more than half their development effort on APIs and 89% plan to hold or increase API investment; only about 8% identify as API‑first yet those teams outperform. gRPC measures 7–10x faster than REST, ChatGPT hits 1 million users in five days, and a Postman experiment finds importing a Postman collection cuts “time to first call” from hours or days to minutes. Twilio proves API‑as‑product works.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 1:04APIs in daily life
- 3:31Brief history of web APIs
- 9:11First modern web APIs
- 12:03APIs as products
- 15:38Current state of APIs
- 20:30Future of APIs
- 24:02Best practices for APIs
- 31:22Protocols and standards
- 32:44Summary and takeaways
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