API Developer Training

How Companies are Making GraphQL Work in the Real World
API University

GraphQL is not a product. It's a specification. Specifications like GraphQL don't magically come to life. To make them work in the real world, you need platforms that support the specification, talented personnel who understand the spec, and API providers looking to put both to work.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

GraphQL, API Design, API Strategy

07-31-2019

Why APIs Are Still a Top Cause Of Downtime: 3 Ways to Protect Your Site
API University

If you integrate with an API and it performs poorly, it can degrade the quality of your service and possibly make your site unavailable to customers. It doesn't have to be this way. The following are three best practices for API integrations that can save you from getting hit with this kind of pain.

Analysis

Josh Koenig

API Education, API Management

07-12-2019

Research Confirms Significant Technical Barriers To Quitting Facebook
API University Facebook Graph

Despite a barrage of headlines that could kill most companies, Facebook operates with near absolute impunity. To dissatisfied users who want out, it brazenly dangles an offer to take all their data before quitting so it can be uploaded to another service. We tested the veracity of that offer.

Analysis

David Berlind

Social

07-02-2019

I Tried Getting My Data Out of Facebook Before Quitting. I Even Wrote Code. It Didn't Go Well.
API University

Before Facebook users consider an alternative social network, two things must be easily moved to that alternative; their friends and their data. Facebook's website advertises it will give you your data so it can be uploaded to another service. ProgrammableWeb puts that bold claim to the test.

Analysis

Shelby Switzer

Social

07-02-2019

Self-Hosted Personal Data is Key to Four Promising Facebook Alternatives
API University

As government regulators and consumers grapple with the extraordinary control and commercialization that Facebook exerts over personal data, and the extent to which Facebook has abused that privilege, a bigger question looms; what hope exists, if any for the emergence of a legitimate alternative?

Analysis

Shelby Switzer

Social, Cloud

07-02-2019

How Intuit Designed its API Ecosystem For Both Internal and External Success
API University

In this follow up to a previous case study examining Intuit's Quickbooks ecosystem, we're improving on an existing diagram of the Quickbooks ecosystem; this time we get into the details of what a successful API ecosystem looks like and how you should go about building yours.

Case Study

David Berlind

API Design

07-02-2019

Addressing The API Consumption Problem
API University

Many APIs are developed to support the UI for a single application: they are not optimized for connecting multiple different applications, frequently without user interaction. Automation-centric APIs are designed to learn and improve, increasing business agility to stay competitive.

Analysis

Gautham Viswanathan

API Design, API Education

06-27-2019

How to Transform an Air Traffic API to GeoJSON to Render on a Map
API University

Many APIs provide data to use in an application but that data isn't always complete. This tutorial shows how to retrieve data from an API for global flight tracking and then transform it into GeoJSON to store in HERE's XYZ Geospatial Storage API and then render it as a 3D map with Three.js.

How-To

Jayson DeLancey

Mapping, 3D, Air Travel

06-14-2019

How to Build Twilio Appointment Reminders with Node.js and Express
API University Twilio

Many of us have a love/hate relationship with appointment reminders. Maybe the least annoying notification is a text message, and it's also the easiest. The Twilio REST API lets you create intelligent reminders, and you can also benefit from simple integration with your CRM and reservation systems.

How-To

Andrew Baker

Messaging, Business

03-27-2019

Why Segment Moved from Microservices to a Monolith
API University

Segment shares its experience developing with both the microservices and monolithic architecture, and details the pros and cons of each and why they chose the monolith in the end. The journey was a difficult one. The company's developers where pushed to their limits, but they succeeded in the end.

Case Study

ProgrammableWeb Staff

Microservices, API Design

03-17-2019

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