What is the glue of APIs

by Mehdi Medjaoui @ Apistrat NYC (Feb. 2013)

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1. 1 000 000 APIs in 2017. What is the glue of APIs? Building the programmable web and the Internet Operating System
2. Who I am? Mehdi Medjaoui Co-founder of Webshell.io API Rating Agency blog {"apis":"the joy"} tumblr APIdays.io event
3. Trust
4. 20th century supply chain
5. What is trust in business?
6. What is trust in APIs?
7. API changes
8. What is trust in API economy?
9. API ToS
11. API Neutrality
12. Net Neutrality • Absolute non discrimination to 3rd- party • Limited discrimination without tiering • First-come First-served
14. Copyright
15. What is an API? API design? Case Oracle Vs Google
16. What is the glue of APIs which could provide this trust?
18. The number of APIs is growing 1 000 000 in 2017
19. API are interfaces
20. in 2017? 1 000 000 APIs designs ?
21. Solutions IETF Standards Business Standards DeFacto Standards
22. IETF Standards?
23. IETF Standards? too late...
24. Business Standards?
25. DeFacto Standards? A) Modern computing standards B) Web standards
26. DeFacto Standards? A) Modern computing standards B) Web standards
27. DeFacto Standards? Future interface : What the last 50+years of modern computing history may tell us about the future?
28. DeFacto Standards? 1) REST/JSON
29. 2) Node The evolution of modern computing Latency : transform a bug into a feature
30. 3) Collaborative The evolution of modern computing
31. 4) Smaller but numerous services The evolution of modern computing
33. How the web is evolving? I would personnaly add
34. How the web is evolving? 5) Browser based
35. How the web is evolving? HTML5 Backbone.js Bootstrap Angular.js Ember.js!.j Websocket WebRTC
36. The whole expressivity of a web language to script APIs APIs become Objects apis.google.maps() apis.twitter.auth() apis.facebook.getFriends()
37. An Operating system of the web?
38. The software industry : PC phase
39. The software industry : cloud phase
40. Hardware Abstraction Layer APIs Abstraction Layer (schema.org)
41. "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 •
42. Assembly Language C Language Javascript Coffeescrip t Hardware Kernel UNIX MSDOS Program APIs Kernel for the Web Apps Bytecode Node.js V8
43. The whole expressivity of a web language to script APIs APIs become Objects
44. 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}
45. The glue of APIs for the Internet Operating System
46. 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
48. is an open platform with an open API
49. Roadmap More APIs in Js Unification/AAL Events UI
50. "Never in the face of digital revolution has so much been owed by so many to so few."