A walkthrough of the current state of APIs and the future trends of APIs. Presented at Nordic APIs in Stockholm in March 2013. More information about Nordic APIs at nordicapis.com or twitter.com/nordicapis.
2. Andreas mashup.se
Krohn
@andreaskrohn dopter.se
APIHQ.com
nordicAPIs.com
3. PAST PRESENT FUTURE
APIs EVERYWHERE
‣ THE way to integrate
systems
‣ THE way to expose
data
‣ Beyond internet
startups
4. PAST PRESENT FUTURE
APIs EVERYWHERE
INFRASTRUCTURE
Cloud
Mobile
Sync
5. PAST PRESENT FUTURE
APIs EVERYWHERE
INFRASTRUCTURE
‣ PSI rules!
OPENGOV
‣ Open data movement
6. PAST PRESENT FUTURE
APIs EVERYWHERE
INFRASTRUCTURE
‣ Hackathonmania
OPENGOV
API EVENTS
7. PAST PRESENT FUTURE
APIs EVERYWHERE
INFRASTRUCTURE
OPENGOV
API EVENTS
DEFACTO STANDARDS ‣ REST(ish)
‣ JSON
‣ OAuth 2(ish)
8. PAST PRESENT FUTURE
THE OBVIOUS
MORE
‣ APIs in more industries
‣ REST + JSON
‣ Open data
9. PAST PRESENT FUTURE
THE OBVIOUS
‣ Do not reinvent the
API MANAGEMENT
wheel (unless you can
patent it)
‣ The whole package is
important
Alessandro Suraci, from The Noun Project
10. PAST PRESENT FUTURE
THE OBVIOUS
API MANAGEMENT
INTERNET OF THINGS
‣ Tessla, Ford, Philips,
Ninja Blocks...
11. PAST PRESENT FUTURE
THE OBVIOUS
‣ Power of APIs for
API MANAGEMENT
INTERNET OF THINGS
non-coders
APIs FOR MUGGLES
‣ Automation
‣IFTTT.com
‣Zapier.com
12. PAST PRESENT FUTURE
THE OBVIOUS
API MANAGEMENT
‣ One API to rule them all
INTERNET OF THINGS
APIs FOR MUGGLES
‣Janrain, Singly
‣ Scripting solutions
AGGREGATION
‣Webshell
13. PAST PRESENT FUTURE
THE OBVIOUS
API MANAGEMENT
‣ All data all of the time
INTERNET OF THINGS
APIs FOR MUGGLES
‣ Streaming
‣ Push
AGGREGATION
REAL TIME
14. PAST PRESENT FUTURE
THE OBVIOUS
API MANAGEMENT
‣ Hypermedia APIs
INTERNET OF THINGS
APIs FOR MUGGLES
‣ Descriptors
‣ Linked data
AGGREGATION
REAL TIME
API DESIGN
‣ Documentation
15. PAST PRESENT FUTURE
THE OBVIOUS
‣ APIs are not the
API MANAGEMENT
solution to all
INTERNET OF THINGS
APIs FOR MUGGLES
problems
AGGREGATION
REAL TIME
‣ Twitter, Netflix, Google
API DESIGN
Reader...
BACKLASH
‣ Part of growing up