The Dark Side of Managing APIs as a Product, Martin Buhr, Co-Founder & CEO, Tyk

1. June 2015 Tyk
April 2019

2. June 2015 Tyk
The Dark Side of Managing APIs

3. June 2015 Tyk
April 2019
Martin Buhr
CEO & Co-Founder, Tyk Technologies
• General tinkerer
• Digital hippie
• Maker of things

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Lest we forget: APIs run deep.

5. Usability = Adoption = Success

6. Usability = Adoption = Success

7. In-Memory DB?

9. Document Store?

11. SQL?

13. …?

14. Adoption

15. Adoption
DesignFlexibility

16. Adoption
DesignFlexibility

17. Adoption
DesignFlexibility

18. Adoption
DesignFlexibility

19. Adoption
DesignFlexibility
High adoption creates pressure
to standardize and stabilize
your APIs

22. The Great API Heist

27. Oracle America, Inc. v. Google, Inc.

28. The same risk applies to your
public APIs

29. Tyk
There are limits to the risk of interface
theft, and they depend on
your product…

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UI/Dev
Ex
Risk
Function Owned
Data
Curated
Data
Replicability

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Ask yourself, does it even matter?

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Competitive edge

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Competitive edgew

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Protecting yourself

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The legal option

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Use the data

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Don’t build a
skinner box

38. If your API is the product, you
don’t have a product

39. June 2015 Tyk
April 2019
Thanks for listening!
Find me at the Tyk Technologies stall if you want to
chat any further, or take a look at our API
Management Platform.
@martinbuhr
@tyk_io