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readme.io's Build Looks To Greatly Simplify API Provisioning and Consumption (video)

Readme.io, a service that greatly simplifies the process of documenting technologies like APIs, is taking its popularity with API providers to the next level in a new offering called Build. Working off that tradition of simplicity, Build simplifies the design, provisioning and consumption of APIs.

Interview

David Berlind

API Design, API Management, Application Development

09-29-2017

Gauging API Success: Knowing What Metrics to Measure API University

Deciding what metrics matter depends on the overall strategy goals and business model that aligns with your APIs. This is why defining the business model was one of the first steps in your decision series. Now we need to make sure our evaluation framework matches back up to what we set out to do.

Analysis

Mark Boyd

API Strategy, Analytics, API Management

09-27-2017

Best Practices and Tools for Documenting APIs API University

Congratulations, your API is now production ready. Next you will need to provide documentation to consumers so they can integrate the data and services you have exposed via API quickly. This part covers API documentation including the role of API specs and a number of available tools.

Analysis

Mark Boyd

API Strategy, API Design, API Management

09-27-2017

Why To Treat and Manage Your APIs as Products API University

As you go through the decisions involved in setting up the business side of managing an API, it becomes clear that you will need to treat the API as a product in order for it to succeed. But what does that mean and how do you do that? This part takes you through the things you need to consider.

Analysis

Mark Boyd

API Strategy, API Education, API Management

09-27-2017

How To Get the Team and Support in Place for Your API Strategy API University

This is Part 3 of ProgrammableWeb's series on maximizing the ROI on your API. In this part we explore how to build a team that can build internal support by liaising with various business units. The article also looks at putting together the right team to drive your API strategy.

Analysis

Mark Boyd

API Strategy, API Management

09-27-2017

How to Test APIs From the Command Line With HTTPie and cURL API University

Our API Testing Series continues with a look at two command line tools – HTTPie and curl. Both of these tools are ideal for exploration. Along the way you will create a couple of API tests running against the Trello API, which is a real API with formal authentication tokens.

Review

Justin Rohrman

Testing, API Design, API Management

08-29-2017

New Version of Tool for Busting-Open Apple's KeyChain Serves as a Security Reminder

Elcomsoft has upgraded Phone Breaker; commercially sold software that has been implicated in API attacks that resulted in the exfiltration of personal info from iPhone users' iCloud accounts. With this recent upgrade, now it can extract secrets like IDs and passwords kept Apple's iCloud Keychain.

Analysis

David Berlind

Security, API Management

08-23-2017

Why Intellexer Runs Two Identical Versions of Its API (Including One on Mashape)

Just when we thought the data model behind ProgrammableWeb's API directory was designed to capture all the different edge cases that API providers throw our way, along comes EffectiveSoft with two completely separate but identical endpoints for the same thing. So, why would an API provider do that?

Analysis

David Berlind

API Management, Developer Relations

06-02-2017

How to Design Static REST API Documentation API University

You need good API docs if devs are going to have success with their integrations. Just as importantly, your docs are also like marketing material. If on first reading, the prospective user doesn’t understand how your product works or thinks it would be a nightmare to integrate, you’re in trouble.

How-To

Seamus Holland

API Management, API Design

05-29-2017

Why Twilio's Function Strategy Is Revolutionary and Other API Providers Should Pay Attention

Twilio announced Twilio Functions and while there are other API providers who offer serverless function capabilities, Twilio appears to be the first major API provider that, in addition to providing APIs, is also offering a serverless execution environment that’s specific to consuming them.

Analysis

David Berlind

API Strategy, API Management

05-25-2017

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readme.io's Build Looks To Greatly Simplify API Provisioning and Consumption (video)

Gauging API Success: Knowing What Metrics to Measure API University

Best Practices and Tools for Documenting APIs API University

Why To Treat and Manage Your APIs as Products API University

How To Get the Team and Support in Place for Your API Strategy API University

How to Test APIs From the Command Line With HTTPie and cURL API University

New Version of Tool for Busting-Open Apple's KeyChain Serves as a Security Reminder

Why Intellexer Runs Two Identical Versions of Its API (Including One on Mashape)

How to Design Static REST API Documentation API University

Why Twilio's Function Strategy Is Revolutionary and Other API Providers Should Pay Attention