Lazier, happier and more productive developers - API economy

Presented at Ultrahack 18.11.2019 in Helsinki

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1. Lazier, happier and more productive developers Jarkko Moilanen @kyyberi apinf.com
2. ➔ Understand customer segments ➔ Design First ➔ Productise your APIs! ➔ Written SLAs belong to the 19th century ➔ Get involved - apiops.net Topics
3. Remember that API is a product Treat it like a product
4. Remember that application developers are lazy bastards But they are more...
6. ➔ Use Design First approach ➔ API design, implement logic ➔ Open API (Swagger) spec is defacto ➔ RAML and API Blueprint are history Design First
7. ➔ listen to your customers and their needs ➔ minimize stupid errors for example in naming the parameters or logic ➔ maximize developer experience satisfaction ➔ increase API consumer engagement ➔ minimize development costs (created by mistakes in design) ➔ minimize onboarding learning curve. Why Design First?
8. Include API consumers to the process Include early adopters to the process Update API roadmap and prepare marketing Heads up message to early adopters Time to make noise! Credit review participants Utilize API management
9. ➔ Freetier means 3x more likely paying customers ➔ Provide fast start & first impression – ”This is easy!” ➔ Under 5 minutes in use in own code ➔ Self-service ➔ If you provide SDKs – installation from package management ➔ Plan versioning and lifecycle – retirement takes months ➔ Provide roadmap Productise Your APIs
10. ➔ ”I believe it when I see it” ➔ Provide statistics and analytics view ➔ ”I believe it if my peers say so” ➔ Pay attention to what developers write in media ➔ Stack overflow ➔ Yet legally you have to have SLA to satisfy managers Trust is earned, not given
11. 500+ API enthusiasts 20 + companies Eficode, Microsoft, Digia, Futurice, Demola International, University of Tampere Technical University of Tampere apiops.net Kwork innovations, Vincit
12. Open source API management with free tier SaaS available apinf.io API strategy consulting Smart city platform FIWARE apinf.com Full Stack API Economy House