API dicovery, buzzword and reality by Nicolas Grenié

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API discovery buzzword and reality Nicolas Grenié @picsoung Hacker in Residence at 3scale.net @3scale

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Where do you ﬁnd APIs?

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Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung APIstrat Austin - Nov. 2015 Some directories 2005 14k APIs owned by Mulesoft 2013 5k APIs owned by Mashape http://www.programmableweb.com/apis/directory https://www.publicapis.com/

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Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung APIstrat Austin - Nov. 2015 All existing solutions are directories

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Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung APIstrat Austin - Nov. 2015 Directories won’t scale with the increase in number of APIs

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Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung APIstrat Austin - Nov. 2015 There should be an automative, machine readable way of doing API discovery

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Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung APIstrat Austin - Nov. 2015

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Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung APIstrat Austin - Nov. 2015 launched in May 2014 at Gluecon latest version of spec: 0.15 (April 2015) supported mainly by open-source (MIT) https://github.com/apis-json/api-json JSON-schema description support X-vendor extension also integrated by WSO2, SmartBear, API Science…

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Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung APIstrat Austin - Nov. 2015 Example https://gist.githubusercontent.com/kinlane/10094618/raw/ 4dbb7254635417b2daa071aa1ca139a7d7f225bc/api.json

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Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung APIstrat Austin - Nov. 2015 ≈

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Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung APIstrat Austin - Nov. 2015 ≈ {API}s.io

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Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung APIstrat Austin - Nov. 2015 {API}s.io launched in May 2014 at Gluecon open-source https://github.com/apisio/apis.io ~1000 APIs listed Ofﬁcial listing from companies: Paypal, Spotify, trade.gov, Xero 5000 visits for 4000 searches this month http://apis.io

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Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung APIstrat Austin - Nov. 2015 To go further? IoT infrastructure: each part will send it’s apis.json to a central unit (server?). The unit then knows what APIs are available. Could have an UI too. Deploy APIs: span new APIs in containers using APIs.son + Swagger API search Engines per vertical

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API Discovery Nicolas Grenié @picsoung Hacker in Residence at 3scale.net @3scale APIstrat Austin, Nov. 20, 2015