API’s Whole - Video from Build 06
Josep Pujol of 3scale gave an expert talk about APIs at the Build 06 event. Josep is the latest addition to HackFwd Referrers, and as attested by the great talk below, a superb asset to the HackFwd pool of expertise. We are very happy to welcome him on board!
API extends programmatic access to your product and enables others to build on your applications. But API is about connectedness, Josep says, and a connected code is a mechanism. An API can ‘glue’ data, visualization or services, which can conceptually be interpreted and treated as an MVC architecture.
An MVC connects components. APIs connect businesses. The interconnectedness of APIs allows for truly distributed applications to emerge, where the layers of the application stack can originate from different services from anywhere on the web.
How to write a successful API? The simpler the better, says Josep. A good API lowers the entry barrier to including the desired functionality. In planning your API, add functionality incrementally and be aware that removing features is much harder than adding them. Watch the video for Josep’s list of good API features – a very valuable talk if you have or are planning to release an API.
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