8 API Discovery Tools That Will Make You Want More
The world is moving to a direction where everything will be connected. APIs are a concrete way for apps to communicate. How do we connect everything? How many APIs are out there? How do I find them? How do I choose the right one? This is a challenge.
API Checklist: Things to Consider When Creating Your API
Looking back on the early days of Application Programming Interface, the deal was only in deploying and consuming. But nowadays, API universe is expanding day by day offering new approaches and tools to provide various services with API design in the center. It can be defined as everything that goes into architecture planning, designing, testing and finally releasing.
Using Containers To Bridge What Swagger Cannot Define On The Server-Side For My APIs
When I discuss what is possible when it comes to generating both server and client side code using machine readable API definitions like Swagger, I almost always get push-back, making sure I understand there are limitations of what can be auto-generated.
WordPress.com REST API Transitions to v1.1
WordPress has launched version 1.1 of the WordPress.com API. With the transition to 1.1, WordPress has officially deprecated version 1, but there are no current plans to disable version 1. However, users should not add new development in version 1.
Why 2015 will be the year of microservices
The idea of building applications using services has always had appeal. Why code from scratch when you can assemble multiple applications that tap the same services via standard APIs? As long as those services are properly provisioned, you should be able to enjoy tremendous economies of scale.
A Slack Bot Without A Server using APItools
In the old days of the Internet there was the IRC. IRC was a great chat system with channels and servers for every small community around the world. I've spent hours on it as a kid. But the thing that fascinated me the most about it were the bots people created.
Deploying an APItools monitor in Amazon EC2
There are several ways to install an APItools monitor as an on-premise tool, as mentioned in our docs. One of them is installing them on Amazon EC2. On this blogpost, we'll enumerate the steps to install it on that platform.
The Business of APIs
APIs are a really tough concept to help folks on-board with. I have come to realize that people see APIs very differently, and most of the time, I think this can be a good thing. In a perfect world it would be nice if everyone followed the same standards, and used only the best API patterns, when designing their APIs.
API Strategy and API Tactic
Experts in the API Economy (API = application programming interface) have been discussing as to whether there is such a thing as an "API strategy." This was triggered by Daniel Jacobson's article " Why you probably don't need an API strategy" on The Next Web.
Reverse Engineering Raises Ethical Aspects of Using Private APIs
A recent inquiry on Hacker News questioned the ethics of reverse-engineering a private API, and what should be done with it next. The question is a valid one, with opinion split over whether to publish the hack, allowing developers to create better applications through third-party integration, or to inform the company of the security breach, risking the closure of the API.
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