In this talk, Restlet's Chief Geek, Jérôme Louvel discussed the continuous API delivery, the API team collaboration and increasing API use cases.

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workshop
Restlet experience
Boston, 11/2/2016

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Jérôme LOUVEL
About Jérôme LOUVEL
• Founder, CTO & VP of Products at Restlet
• Restlet Framework creator,
first REST framework for Java (2004)
• Contributor to “RESTful Web Services” (O’Reilly,
2007)
• Member of JAX-RS 1.0 expert group (2007 - 2009)
• Co-author of “Restlet in Action” (Manning, 2012)
• InfoQ editor covering Web APIs (since 2014)
• Board member of OAI

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• Increasing API Use Cases
• Continuous API Delivery
• API Team Collaboration
Why API Description
Formats?

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API Use Cases
API centric
software
Mobile app
backend
IoT
backend
Micro
service
Web app
backend
Social bot
backend
Partner
API
gateway
Public
API
gateway
Automated
workflow

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Continuous API Delivery
DEV
API centric
software
QA
OPS
BIZ
Create
TestEngage
Run

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1 | Code-first & Provider driven
Provider
team
Consumer
teams
API
Impl
SDK
Client
A
SDK
Client
B
...
...
3
1
2

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2 | Contract-first & Provider driven
Provider
team
Consumer
teams
Impl
SDK
Client
A
SDK
Client
B
...
...
2
1
Mock
2
API

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3 | Collaborative Contract-first
Provider
team
Consumer
teams
Impl
SDK
Client
A
SDK
Client
B
...
...
2
1
Mock
2
API

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4 | Contract-first & Consumer Driven
Provider
team
Consumer
teams
Impl
SDK
Client
A
SDK
Client
B
...
...
2
1
Mock
2
API
Mock
API
Impl
Mock
API
Impl
ServicesData

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5 | Contract-first & Consumer Owned
Provider
team
Consumer
teams
Impl
SDK
Client
A
SDK
Client
B
...
...
2
1
Mock
2
API
Mock
API
Impl
Mock
API
Impl
Data Services

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API Team Collaboration
Owner
Developer Writer
Tester
Operator
API
Team
Manager

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• Restlet Studio → Collaborative & visual API design
• DHC → Collaborative & automated API testing
• APISpark → Data API creation & operations
Restlet Tools

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Restlet Studio - Collaborative & visual API design

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DHC - Collaborative & automated API testing

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APISpark - Data API creation & operations

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Restlet & OAS
• Visually edit OAS definitions
→ easier learning curve
→ boost productivity
• Import existing OAS definitions
→ older versions and alternative formats
→ generates API test scenarios
• Export OAS definitions
→ share the API description with other tools
• Display OAS as interactive doc
→ embed Swagger UI in API portal

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Thanks!