What are Web APIs
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What exactly are Web APIs? Why are Web APIs so popular and widely used? This presentation explores what APIs are and how they have evolved into what we call Web APIs. To learn more, read the "What are Web APIs" article on Medium: https://hackernoon.com/what-are-web-apis-c74053fa4072 Presented at IronHack, in Barcelona, on January 2018.
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- 1. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved. What are Web APIs Bruno Pedro / IronHack Barcelona / January 2018
- 2. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved About me • Since 2004 has been building hundreds of API integrations • 2008: Co-founded tarpipe, a predecessor to IFTTT and Zapier • 2016: Co-founded Hitch, API community & support platform • 2017: Working on APIs & Integrations at New Relic
- 3. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved Summary • Definition of API • Different types of APIs • Brief history of Web APIs • Architecting the next 10 years
- 4. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved Different APIs Operating System Library Remote Web
- 5. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved History of Web APIs 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s AT&T Unix BSD LinuxSun
- 6. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved Operating System APIs Operating System System calls IPC
- 7. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved Library APIs Operating System POSIX GNU C Operating System APIs
- 8. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved History of Web APIs 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Sun RPC sockets AT&T UNIX BSD LinuxSun
- 9. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved Remote APIs Operating System RPC OS APIs Libraries Operating System RPC OS APIs Libraries
- 10. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved History of Web APIs 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Sun RPC SOA sockets standardization AT&T UNIX BSD LinuxSun
- 11. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved History of Web APIs 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Sun RPC SOA WWW sockets standardization AT&T UNIX BSD LinuxSun
- 12. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved Web APIs
- 13. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved History of Web APIs 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Sun RPC SOA WWW SOAP sockets standardization integration AT&T UNIX BSD LinuxSun
- 14. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved History of Web APIs 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Sun RPC SOA WWW SOAP sockets standardization REST integration simplification AT&T UNIX BSD LinuxSun
- 15. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved History of Web APIs 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s Sun RPC SOA WWW SOAP sockets standardization REST gRPC GraphQL integration simplification control data AT&T UNIX BSD LinuxSun
- 16. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved What’s next? Metcalfe’s Law Utility APIs
- 17. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved Microservices
- 18. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved Complexity
- 19. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved Asynchronous APIs broker
- 20. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved Distributed APIs caller ? ? ?
- 21. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved What’s next? ?
- 22. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved Takeaways • Different types of APIs • It all started with UNIX and IPC • The creation of the WWW changed everything • Technology doesn’t matter, architecture does
- 23. ©2008–18 New Relic, Inc. All rights reserved. Thank you Q & A Bruno Pedro / IronHack Barcelona / January 2018