The talk consist of fundamentals in the client-server communication defined by the HTTP protocol. HTTP verbs, status codes, commonly used headers will be quickly summarized while our main purpose would be to focus on the importance of media types by an introduction to the concept of Hypermedia API.
Finally, familiarise with APIBlueprint and the toolchain provided to achieve collaboration with clients, quick iterations between sketch and prototyping during API design.
Resources
Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP/1.1): Message Syntax and Routing
{json:api}: A standard for building APIs in JSON
API Design Lifecycle / Honza Javorek
New Acropolis Museum / Bernard Tschumi Architects
apiblueprint: API Documentation with powerful tooling
Failing Fast with API Design / Ronnie Mitra