Developer Evangelist at Twilio, Paul Hallett, looks at the power of APIs in the modern web and how APIs are changing web app builds.

1. THE POWER OF WEB APIS
DIGIBURY
APRIL 2014

2. HI. I’M PAUL
I’m a Developer Evangelist at twilio

3. WHAT IS AN API?

4. DEMO TIME
curl
-­‐X
POST
http://livedemo.com/start/
!
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Content-Type: application/xml
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 19:35:26 GMT
!
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<Response>
<Say>HOOT HOOT</Say>
</Response>

5. THE PROBLEM
• Hardware
• Setup
• Negotiations
• Hiring
• Investment

6. APIS SET YOU FREE

7. THE SOLUTION
• Internet connection
• Creativity

8. PROVIDING SERVICES

9. PROVIDING DATA

10. POKEAPI.CO
• Completely open data API
• Nearly 2 million requests
• RESTful standards

11. THE FUTURE

12. THE NEW FOUNDATION
• APIs for all the services!
• Web applications spend 90% of their time consuming APIs
• Web applications can be built over night

13. THANKS
@phalt_
!
paul@twilio.com