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Three Approaches to API Design Your Digital Transformation Team Needs to Master
API University

API design is often treated as a uniform set of generic steps, but this approach can lead to development rework down the road. Instead, APIs should be segregated into three layers to make sure their architecture will scale, before a team chooses from among a set of API design approaches.

Analysis

David Zhao

API Design

08-27-2019

What is GraphQL and How Did It Evolve From REST and Other API Technologies?
API University

API-like technologies that move data between dissimilar systems have been around for much longer than the phrase "Web API" has been fashionable. As it turns out, a walk down memory lane is all it takes to understand what GraphQL is, how it evolved from its predecessors, and why it matters.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

GraphQL, API, Developers

07-31-2019

GraphQL APIs for Everyone: An In-Depth Tutorial on How GraphQL Works and Why It's Special
API University

You've heard about it. You may have even seen apps that depend on it. Now you're curious about GraphQL APIs and want to understand how they work. In this article, we explain all of the GraphQL fundamentals you'll need to start your successful journey with the GraphQL architectural style of APIs.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

GraphQL, API Design, API Education

07-31-2019

Hands-On: How To Design, Launch, and Query a GraphQL API Using Apollo Server
API University

In this part of our comprehensive series on the GraphQL architectural style of APIs, we offer a comprehensive tutorial on designing, launching, and querying, a GraphQL API. The tutorial includes tons of sample code while offering an interactive learning environment to make learning GraphQL easy!

Analysis

Bob Reselman

GraphQL, API, API Design

07-31-2019

How GraphQL Delivers on the Original Promise of the Semantic Web. Or Not.
API University

In an effort to address a key weakness in the World Wide Web, its inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee developed a second generation web technology called the Semantic Web. But the Semantic Web's fundamentals were never widely embraced. Now, those fundamentals are showing up in GraphQL and gaining traction.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

GraphQL, API Design, Semantic Web

07-31-2019

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

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