Keynote presentation at APIDays Barcelona 2019.

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The End of the Beginning
of APIs Steven Willmott
@njyx / Red Hat Inc.

2. The End of the Beginning
of APIs Steven Willmott
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3. Image Credits….
From Neuromancer Movie Concepts
See Twitter: @Vincenzo_Natali

4. APIs have come a long way!

5. The end of the beginning?
Copyright
Discoverability Ease of Use
Ease of Creation
Security
API Types
Semantics

6. ● Mass API Usage and Users
● Easy API Creation and Creators
● Uniqueness and Copyright
● Security and Trust
● Syntax v’s Semantics

7. A question to you...

8. Mass API Usage and Users

9. Take-away: Think about 1000x, 10,000x end
users as users, developers are best thought of
as partners

10. Easy API
Creation &
Creators

11. Take-away: Co-design your APIs with domain
specialists, automate everything

12. Uniqueness &
Copyright

13. Take-away: Standard and shared is better,
prepare for automation, engage your peers

14. Security &
Trust
Body of Glass
1992, by Marge
Piercy
The Black Swan,
2007, by Nassim
Taleb

15. Take-away: Security means facing the
unknown, as well as constant evolution and
change, you are never “done”

16. Syntax v’s Semantics

17. Take-away: be deliberate about documenting
meaning

18. Conclusions...

19. ● Your audience will probably be much
bigger than you think it will be
● API creation needs to spread
● API designs are better shared
● Security will be an ongoing arms race
● Semantics >> Syntax in the long run

20. Thank You!
+ Q&A
Images: copyrighted.
From Neuromancer Movie Concepts
See Twitter: @Vincenzo_Natali