APIs 101 - API Strategy Conference, Amsterdam

Some business & technical use cases on why you might need an API

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1. So you want an API? D Keith Casey Jr Platform Guy Austin, TX Op3nvoice
2. Talk Overview • Intros & Getting Started • Dive into APIs • Business/Technical Cases • REST Deconstructed • API & Developer Success
3. Business Cases
4. Mobile/Market Penetration
5. Drive Usage
6. Defensive Strategy
7. Partner Connectivity
8. Technical Cases
9. Abstraction of Complexity
10. Simplifying Interfaces
11. Metered Usage
12. All of the Above
13. Platform as a Strategy Making Stuff: How can we build more stuff? Examples: manufacturing, NYT/blogging networks Optimizing Stuff: How can we better distribute the stuff? Examples: Walmart, search engines/RSS readers Redefine Stuff: How can we redefine ‘stuff’ & find new ways to solve the problem? Examples: Ebay/Amazon Prime, Twitter Source: http://platformed.info/platform-thinking/
14. Architectural Considerations
15. What you can do: Affordances ! ! “An affordance is a quality of an object, or an environment, which allows a user to perform an action.” ! Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affordance WRT Hypermedia: http://amundsen.com/blog/archives/1109
16. How you can do it: Hypermedia
17. What it looks like: Schema ! ! “An outline or model; organized pattern of thought or behavior” ! Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schema_(psychology) WRT Hypermedia: http://json-schema.org
18. Who can do it: Authentication & Authorization ! Authentication - Confirming who are you Authorization - Granting access to perform certain actions ! ! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authentication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorization
19. Talk Overview • Intros & Getting Started • Dive into APIs • Business/Technical Cases • REST Deconstructed • API & Developer Success
20. TheAPIDesignBook.com