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API Strategy & Practice Conference
July 04, 2013
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What is the glue of APIs
by Mehdi Medjaoui @ Apistrat NYC (Feb. 2013)
API Strategy & Practice Conference
July 04, 2013
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Transcript
1 000 000 APIs in 2017. What is the glue
of APIs? Building the programmable web and the Internet Operating System
Who I am? Mehdi Medjaoui Co-founder of Webshell.io API Rating
Agency blog {"apis":"the joy"} tumblr APIdays.io event
Trust
20th century supply chain
What is trust in business?
What is trust in APIs?
API changes
What is trust in API economy?
API ToS
None
API Neutrality
Net Neutrality • Absolute non discrimination to 3rd- party •
Limited discrimination without tiering • First-come First-served
None
Copyright
What is an API? API design? Case Oracle Vs Google
What is the glue of APIs which could provide this
trust?
None
The number of APIs is growing 1 000 000 in
2017
API are interfaces
in 2017? 1 000 000 APIs designs ?
Solutions IETF Standards Business Standards DeFacto Standards
IETF Standards?
IETF Standards? too late...
Business Standards?
DeFacto Standards? A) Modern computing standards B) Web standards
DeFacto Standards? A) Modern computing standards B) Web standards
DeFacto Standards? Future interface : What the last 50+years of
modern computing history may tell us about the future?
DeFacto Standards? 1) REST/JSON
2) Node The evolution of modern computing Latency : transform
a bug into a feature
3) Collaborative The evolution of modern computing
4) Smaller but numerous services The evolution of modern computing
None
How the web is evolving? I would personnaly add
How the web is evolving? 5) Browser based
How the web is evolving? HTML5 Backbone.js Bootstrap Angular.js Ember.js!.j
Websocket WebRTC
The whole expressivity of a web language to script APIs
APIs become Objects apis.google.maps() apis.twitter.auth() apis.facebook.getFriends()
An Operating system of the web?
The software industry : PC phase
The software industry : cloud phase
Hardware Abstraction Layer APIs Abstraction Layer (schema.org)
"JS is the x86 assembly language of the web. The
point is JS is about as low as we can go. But it also has higher level facilities" Brendan Eich, inventor of Javascript •
Assembly Language C Language Javascript Coffeescrip t Hardware Kernel UNIX
MSDOS Program APIs Kernel for the Web Apps Bytecode Node.js V8
The whole expressivity of a web language to script APIs
APIs become Objects
The whole expressivity of a web language to script APIs
var m = apis.google.maps({height: '500px'}); m.center(args.city); m.zoom(12); http://api.webshell.io?code={code}&args={args}
The glue of APIs for the Internet Operating System
A cloud platform, on Node.js, where developers can script client-side
and/or server-side APIs in Javascript, create new REST/JSON micro- services on the fly, in a collaborative file system Github-synchronized
None
is an open platform with an open API
Roadmap More APIs in Js Unification/AAL Events UI
"Never in the face of digital revolution has so much
been owed by so many to so few."