API Economy consumer point of view

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1. Sept 11th Jarkko Moilanen – APItalist, PhD Board Member of Finnish Centre for Open Systems and Solutions Igniter of Global APIOps network, Demola Network Ambassador Full-stack API Economy house – APInf Oy – apinf.com API Economy – Consumer Point of View
2. APInf Oy Open Source API management product – DX focus ➔ Multiorganisation support ➔ Multiproxy support ➔ Multiprotocol (SOAP, REST, Websocket, Stomp, CoAP, TCP, MQTT) ➔ Dasboard, monitoring, API portal, Swagger support…. APItalists – API strategy & smart city consultancy Standardized API value chain automation – APIOps community Full-stack API Economy house Finland (Tampere), India, Ukraine and Brazil Tampere, Helsinki, Budapest, Atlanta (GA), Copenhagen...
3. API Economy - what it is? Strategic tool to gain more opportunities, business and profit. ➔Modern Application Architecture Relies on APIs ➔Consuming APIs will be more common than exposing APIs ➔APIs Enable Bimodal, and Bimodal Requires APIs Full-stack API Economy house – APInf Oy
4. Full-stack API Economy house – APInf Oy Trends and facts REST has taken over...for now GraphQL is moving fast in production use in Finland, HSL Real-time APIs will bring more protocols to the stack in couple of years. (IoT) Open data is not going to vanish – it will grow. MyData will come 2018
5. Understand & utilize Developer scene Full-stack API Economy house – APInf Oy Early adopters: gatekeepers, ”beta fine tuning” Innovators: skilled, participatory, window to future, ”forgiving” Mass: expect ease of use, performance, ”ruthless” Let them be
6. Developer expectations (mass) Full-stack API Economy house – APInf Oy Access to different data via multiple methods ➔ Datasets / APIs APIs taken into use in minutes (no email requests or form filling) Self-service (API-portals as an example) For APIs: ➔ Reliability (prove it!) ➔ Ease of use (SDKs, guides, frameworks driven) ➔ Performance (prove it!) Where the money comes from
7. Full-stack API Economy house – APInf Oy Developer experience – broader view Open Data Developer eXperience API Developer eXperience Platform Developer eXperience
8. API – Data – Platform Economy Full-stack API Economy house – APInf Oy Data economy API economy Platform economy Data sets Function APIs Developer eXperience Data APIs Partner APIs Internal APIs Markets Scalability
9. Full-stack API Economy house – APInf Oy Data - fuel for apps and services ➔ Data sets - Low barrier for citizen usage ➔ Quality, availability ➔ Open APIs - currently learning curve too steep to get wide adoptance ➔ Importance of API DX is not understood ➔ Some dont even want wider usage (sign of not treated as products) ➔ Limited access APIs - partner, commercial, governmental (X- Road as an example) ➔ Platform Developer eXperience vs API DX
10. Full-stack API Economy house – APInf Oy Data is just be beginning Dataset Data API Service Function Function Function Function Function Function Dataset API API
11. Full-stack API Economy house – APInf Oy Function APIs – undiscovered goldmine ➔They provide much needed functionality for developers and integrators. ➔Function APIs can save developers time when building their applications by providing needed functionality immediately, cost effectively, and with functionality that would otherwise be impossible without an API.
12. Full-stack API Economy house – APInf Oy Function APIs – undiscovered goldmine ➔ Translation APIs ➔ Fedex API - provide shipping costs ➔ Directions from A → B as with the Google Maps API. ➔ Location of a mobile application user ➔ F-Secure Security Cloud API for URLs - determine the safety and content categories of URLs, which helps you to prevent end-users from accessing URLs that lead to harmful sites All of these require data mass, but the added value is not to provide raw data but processed data.
13. Full-stack API Economy house – APInf Oy Opportunities Data Data API Dataset Data Data API Dataset Data Functions API towards 70% 30% 20% 40% 40% Provide functions over API, processed information, towards block programming Support application logic building – not just provide data