Web APIs: The Past, The Present and The Future

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1. Web APIs: The Past, The Present and The Future Lukáš Linhart
2. work@almad.net
 @almadcz
 http://www.almad.net
3. 470.000 APIs 5M+ Consumers 350.000 Developers Apiary CTO @
4. Web APIs (exchange of machine-readable, structured data where client has semantic understanding of the domain)
5. Web ~= HTTP
6. The Past-ish
7. structured; data; definition; RO
10. What went wrong? • “text” originally just ASCII • POST tunneling • Simplistic
13. What went wrong? • (in the enterprise world) Nothing!!!!!!!1111!111 • POST tunneling • Way too complex • Sharing domain dictionaries across organisations
16. What went wrong? • Easy to be done wrong • Tooling fragmentation • Be An Architect For This Simple Endpoint™
19. AJAX/AJAJ (SPAs are API clients too!)
20. The Present (based on personal perception)
22. The Rise of HTTP Contracts Swagger/OAS3, API Blueprint
23. The Fall of HATEOAS Tooling is not here. Not enough benefits in affordances vs fixed (URL) contracts
24. RPC reborn GraphQL & gRPC/protobuf rising
26. Client Has The Power GraphQL, cURL, “old” REST
27. Return of the Binary HTTP/2-3, ProtoBuf, 0101s are less frowned upon
28. Real-Time Rising Protocol winner unclear
30. The Future (Questions)
31. Client generalisation Will we break out of domain-specific clients?
32. Shared semantic/ domain model It (almost always) failed. Will we succeed?
33. IoT pressure Scaling clients that can’t break, on low-power devices. Autonomy?
34. ML usefullness Will ML be usable for protocol programming?
35. Internal & External API unification Currently rarely same because of different contracts
36. @almadcz http://www.almad.net Thank You @apiaryio https://apiary.io/
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