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Twilio's Quinton Wall Emphasizes API as a Product
API University

An essential part of any API strategy is to engage with your developer ecosystem. This interview continues a series where ProgrammableWeb talks to providers about their best practices for engaging with developers. We talk with Quinton Wall from Twilio to learn what drives it's engagement strategy.

Analysis

Wendell Santos

Developer Relations

11-04-2020

How Postman Empowers its Community as a Key to Developer Relations Strategy
API University

An essential part of any API strategy is to engage with your developer ecosystem. This interview is the first in a series where ProgrammableWeb talks to providers about their best practices for engaging with developers. We talk with Nick Tran from Postman to learn about how he set up its strategy.

Analysis

Wendell Santos

Developer Relations

10-27-2020

ProgrammableWeb’s Guide to Modern API Business Models
API University

This report provides a comprehensive overview of the API business models being used by providers today. It revisits the old API business models to see what has changed and also identifies all of the newcomers based on real-world observations across the API economy over the last five years.

Analysis

David Berlind

API Strategy

10-26-2020

How to Make Use of gRPC Libraries and Frameworks
API University

While gRPC brings a lot of power to enterprise-level distributed computing, it's not an easy technology to implement. Fortunately, there are projects that provide the necessary framework to do this. This article focuses on a detailed examination of the Node.js implementation of gRPC.

How-To

Bob Reselman

Developers, API, API Education

10-14-2020

How to Auto-Generate gRPC Code Using protoc
API University

The objective of this article is to explain how to get protoc, a tool that does a lot of the mundane work that goes with creating code for a gRPC API, up and running to auto-generate gRPC code in a variety of programming languages. We'll cover auto-generating code in JavaScript, C#, and GoLang.

How-To

Bob Reselman

API Design, API Education

10-14-2020

Understanding the Essentials of gRPC
API University

In this article, we're going to take a detailed look at gRPC. We're going to cover the essentials of gRPC architecture in terms of specification and implementation. Then, we're going to take a detailed look at the underlying concepts and practices required to create a gRPC API.

Analysis

Bob Reselman

API Design, API Education

10-14-2020

APIs Can Offer a Frictionless Customer Experience Amid Crisis
API University

The COVID pandemic has pressured businesses more than ever to communicate with and serve customers without needing physical interaction. This article looks at how with the right approach, APIs can transform the way companies interact with customers by creating one seamless chain of communication.

Analysis

Omar Javaid

API Strategy

08-11-2020

Why You Should Re-evaluate the Strength of Your API Security
API University

APIs are core to digital business—assembling data, events, and services from within the organization and across devices. With organizations moving more of business online, those APIs are being exposed to externalities, whether to other departments, customers, or enterprises in their partner network.

Analysis

Pubudu Gunatilaka

Security, Authentication, OAuth

04-29-2020

From the DC-Area API Meetup: How To Build A Scalable API on AWS in 10 Minutes
API University

In this special presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from the Washington, DC-area API Meetup on Nov 5, 2019, calletime.ai co-founder Adam Becker shows attendees how he and his partner collaborated to stand-up an API endpoint in almost no time using three Amazon Web Services.

Analysis

David Berlind

DC-Area API Meetup, API, API Education

01-27-2020

What is an API and Why does the API Contract Matter So Much?
API University

In this special presentation of ProgrammableWeb's Developers Rock Podcast from the Washington, DC-area API Meetup on Dec 5, 2019, ProgrammableWeb.com editor-in-chief David Berlind kicks off his long running college course on APIs. In this first chapter, Berlind reviews the definition of an API.

Analysis

David Berlind

DC-Area API Meetup, API Education

01-24-2020

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