Harmony in API Design Jakub Nesetril, VP Product Development, Oracle Apply to be a speaker here - https://apidays.typeform.com/to/J1snsg

1. Harmony in API Design
Jakub Nešetřil, VP Product Development, Oracle

2. apiary+
470,440
APIs
5.5M+
API Consumers
365,802
API Designers

3. REST?
GraphQL?
Hypermedia?

4. Golden Standard?

5. There is no golden standard!

6. What is an API?

7. in · ter · face
/ˈin(t)ərˌfās/
verb
1. interact with (another system, person, organization, etc.)
“his goal is to get people interfacing with each other”
2. COMPUTING
connect with (another computer or piece of equipment) by an interface
noun
1. a point where two systems, subjects, organizations, etc., meet and interact.
“the interface between accountancy and the law”
2. COMPUTING
a device or program enabling a user to communicate with a computer.
COMPUTING
a device or program enabling a user
to communicate with a computer

8. API is UI to Data/Service
User Experience
Design
Subjective
Simplicity
Conversion Rates
Emotions
Productivity
Usability Studies
Culturally Dependent
Hackathons

9. You can try to do all of these and still fail

10. in · ter · face
/ˈin(t)ərˌfās/
verb
1. interact with (another system, person, organization, etc.)
“his goal is to get people interfacing with each other”
2. COMPUTING
connect with (another computer or piece of equipment) by an interface
noun
1. a point where two systems, subjects, organizations, etc., meet and interact.
“the interface between accountancy and the law”
2. COMPUTING
a device or program enabling a user to communicate with a computer.
a point where two systems,
subjects, organizations, etc.,
meet and interact

11. Provider Consumer
Uptime
Caching
Security
Maintenance
Versioning
Validation
Can It Be Done?
Debugging
Support
TTFHW
Example
Latency
Java
C++
Go
Node
Kotlin
Swift
React

12. Examples

20. (API) Design
=
User Empathy

21. Oracle OpenWorld
Europe
London
16–17 January 2019
Are you ready to experience the latest and
greatest developer technologies?
Oracle Open World is coming to LONDON !
✓ Keynotes, Hands-on Labs
How to develop software including
o Containers
o Microservices and APIs
o Machine learning & AI
o Chatbots and Mobile
o Blockchain
o Databases & Big Data
o DevOps, Tools & Low Code Platforms