This document discusses publishing SQL data as web APIs. It introduces the presenter and their background working with REST APIs and web frameworks. It then outlines three common use cases for exposing SQL data via REST APIs: allowing citizens to integrate data, opening data to other applications, and providing global access. The document raises concerns about caching, latency, scalability, and querying that APIs may need to address and provides examples of API caching and high availability solutions. It also briefly describes some existing API framework and platform options for building APIs with different levels of control, cost, and time to deployment.