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What Are APIs and How Do They Work?
Intro:
APIs Are Like User Interfaces--Just With Different Users in Mind
Part 1:
What is an API, Exactly?
Part 2:
What are the Benefits of APIs?
Part 3:
How Web and Browser APIs Fuel The API Economy
Part 4:
How the API Principles of Abstraction Benefit API Providers
Part 5:
Why Did They Put the Web in Web APIs?
Conclusion:
The API Economy Delivers Limitless Possibilities
8 Real World API Strategies and The Keys To Their Success
Intro:
What Successful API Strategies Have In Common: The 3 "Blooms of Growth"
Part 1:
How SDKs and Community Drove Contentful's 2000% Growth In Two Years
Part 2:
How Edmunds API Program Thrives On Its Marketplace and Developer Earnings
Part 3:
Why Philips Targets Enterprise, Commercial, and Hobbyist Developers Separately
Part 4:
Comprehensive Platform Support Including Ruby and .NET Drive Podio's API Success
Part 5:
Non-Developer Offerings and Analytics Help Drive SimilarWeb's API Success
Part 6:
How Verticalization and Hyperlocalization Contribute To TransportAPI's Growth
Part 7:
How Walgreens' API Program Leverages Seasonality And Revenue Sharing
Part 8:
How Pivoting Towards Platform Providers Transformed WePay's API Business
Conclusion:
The Keys To Successful Real World API Strategies
Maximizing the ROI on Your API
Part 1:
Making API Decisions: Are You Connecting Business and Technical Interests?
Part 2:
Dixons Carphone Shows How to Link Technology and Service
Part 3:
How To Get the Team and Support in Place for Your API Strategy
Part 4:
What Data and Services Should Your API Expose First?
Part 5:
How To Pick the Best Business Models for Your APIs
Part 6:
Why Ziggeo Had to Pivot to a New API Business Model
Part 7:
Why To Treat and Manage Your APIs as Products
Part 8:
How Dun & Bradstreet Product Manages Their API
Part 9:
How to Choose Architectural Styles and Specification Formats For Your APIs
Part 10:
How to Pick the Right Technology Stack to Provision Your API
Part 11:
Understanding What it Takes to Secure Your API
Part 12:
Best Practices and Tools for Documenting APIs
Part 13:
How to Build Great API Developer Communities
Part 14:
The ABCs of Building API Developer Portals
Part 15:
Gauging API Success: Knowing What Metrics to Measure
Part 16:
Learn How Intercom Grew Its Developer Program with APIs
Featured Courses
Understanding The Realities of API Security
Intro:
APIs are Critical to the Internet but Frequently Targeted for Attack
Part 1:
How Does The External Availability of APIs Impact Their Security?
Part 2:
Do You Publish API Docs Online for Availability to Third Party Developers?
Part 3:
How Do You Determine Who Gets Access to Your API?
Part 4:
Must API Developers Be Certified for Privacy or Security Standards by Your Organization?
Part 5:
Are There API Terms of Use With Specific Language for Privacy and Security?
Part 6:
How Many Production Deployments Exist of APIs and Third Party Apps?
Part 7:
What Are the Perceived and Actual Security Concerns for APIs?
Part 8:
How Can API Risks and Vulnerabilities Be Mitigated?
Part 9:
Could Third Party Certification Authorities Play a Role in API Security?
Conclusion:
API Security is Easier Said Than Done
Microservices 101: Understanding and Leveraging Microservices
Part 1:
What Are Microservices and Why Should You Use Them?
Part 2:
How Microservices Offer Scale, Velocity, and Risk Reduction
Part 3:
Understanding The Role of APIs In Microservice Architectures
Part 4:
What's the Difference Between a Monolith and Microservices?
Part 5:
7 Deadly Sins of a Microservices Architecture
Part 6:
How to Migrate to a Microservices Architecture
Part 7:
How to Align Your Team Around Microservices
Part 8:
How Netflix OSS Helps Companies Build Microservices Architectures
Part 9:
How Accusoft Migrated From Monolithic Applications to a Microservice Architecture
Part 10:
How Uber Broke a Monolithic API into Microservices
Part 11:
Tools to Monitor and Visualize Microservices Architecture
Part 12:
How to Use Message Brokering to Choreograph Microservices
Part 13:
Why The Monolith Isn’t Dead
Why it's the End of the API Economy as We Know it
Part 1:
It's the End of the API Economy As We Know It
Part 2:
How PeopleLinx Thrived, Even After LinkedIn Cut-Off Access To Its APIs
Part 3:
Stitch Avoids the End of API Economy as We Know It
Part 4:
How DataSift Survived Twitter's Merciless Business Behavior in the API Economy
Understanding API First Design
Part 1:
Introduction to API-First Design
Part 2:
The Emergence of API-First Development
Part 3:
Why You Should Use an API First Design Strategy
Part 4:
Why API-First Design Isn’t Just for Startups
Part 5:
How API First Design Could Have Avoided These Failures
Part 6:
MuleSoft CTO Touts Advantages of API-First Design
Part 7:
Does Open Data Demand an API-first Approach?
Part 8:
Why The UK's Government Data Service Takes an API-First Approach To Data.Gov.UK
Part 9:
How To Design Great APIs With API-First Design
How and Why To Provide Event-Driven Streaming APIs
Intro:
Why the Push/Streaming API Architectural Style is More Prominent Than Ever
Part 1:
What is a Webhooks Push-Styled API and How Does It Work?
Part 2:
What Is a PubSubHubbub Push-Styled API and How Does It Work?
Part 3:
What Is a WebSockets Push-Styled API and How Does It Work?
Part 4:
Understanding the Less Popular Push/Streaming Protocols (XMPP, CoAP, MQTT, etc.)
Part 5:
When Push and Streaming APIs Are Just Too Hard To Do, Outsource Them
A Developer’s Guide To Blockchain and Cryptocurrency
Part 1:
Remember This Word: Blockchain
Part 2:
Why Ethereum is the Java of Blockchain
Part 3:
Amid The Cryptocurrency Gold Rush: Who Are the Shovel Providers With an Eye On the APIs?
Part 4:
What Are Some of The Better Known Blockchain and Cryptocurrency APIs?
Part 5:
Banking on Speed, Ripple Makes a Name For Itself Among Cryptocurrency Developers
Part 6:
HyperLedger is a Platform-Agnostic Toolset For Building Blockchain Apps
Part 7:
The Blockchain Train Is Leaving The Station. Should You Be On Board?
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How Government Meddling and Regulation is Impacting the API Economy
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How GraphQL Delivers on the Original Promise of the Semantic Web. Or Not.
Government
How Devs Benefit From the New U.S. Government-Wide Digital Registry API
API Design
How to Tap The Weather Underground’s Plethora of Data Via API
Testing
LoadView Takes API Testing to the Next Level with Webapps Simulating Users
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APIcon
How APIs Power The Smartest Cities
Hacking
How the NFL Tackled a Mountain of Data, Hackathon Style
Microservices
5 Potential Use Cases for Serverless Frameworks
REST
What HTTP/2 Means for REST APIs
Business
How APIs Can Save Telecom Firms
API Design
8 Steps to Help Your API be Forward Compatible
