Survey: Closing the gap between API development and API consumption
As the digital links that enable countless disparate applications to communicate with each other, APIs are the glue holding much of our connected world...
Microservice API Patterns: A Language for API Design
In the overall API lifecycle, it is important to first align APIs with business capabilities, turn this into a clear and business-aligned value proposition...
Designing Private, Partner, and Public APIs: What’s the Difference?
One of the defining characteristics of an API is that it should be reusable, but that doesn’t say much about the scope of an...
API Design fundamentals: How to find your mythical “Yggdrasil” of APIs
On a lazy Sunday afternoon, I was bored and decided to start a new game on my PS4. I recently bought a few, one...
12 Disruptive API Trends for 2020
One of our customers made an astute observation: You've created thousands of APIs, but this one is our first. Over the years, we've worked...
API Design: Tabs versus spaces
With Thanksgiving behind us, the holiday season is now in full effect with lights on houses, jingles on the radio and relentless commercials reminding...
Why API Design is so important
The (obvious) importance of APIs in this era of modern and powerful web browsers with the rise of smartphones, IoT devices, simplification of protocols...
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder – Beautiful APIs
Recently, a colleague asked me for examples of “Beautiful APIs.” Immediately I gave a tongue in cheek response that “beauty is in the eye...
How to get prepped for creating API documentation
What is API documentation?
In order to get prepped for creating API documentation, one must first understand the concept. According to Wikipedia, “API documentation describes...
Benefits of self-service APIs
In the eighth video on APIs and microservices, you learn how the growing trend for APIs is going in the direction of self-service APIs.
It’s...
Accelerating business growth via APIs
What did it take for Star Entertainment Group in Australia to solve their digital transformation woes? Our video explores the topic of accelerating business...
APIs and healthcare: Why the healthcare industry needs APIs
APIs and healthcare work hand in hand these days. Across the world, APIs are being utilized in the healthcare industry to work at optimum...
APIs and the art world: Working together for digital collaboration
Thanks to APIs, the art world has become completely accessible. It’s no longer necessary to take a flight to see the Mona Lisa in...
How to use a common API layer to ground the cloud
The way technology works within the organization needs to change. APIs are a key enabler for this revolution, including using a common API Layer...
Large set of API tools: Interview with Stoplight
For this new interview, I'm really happy to welcome this week Duane Tharp, VP Strategic Sales & Services at Stoplight.io.
Stephane Castellani: Hi Duane, can...
Role of APIs in microservices
Microservice architecture is revolutionizing the way enterprises build their technical infrastructure and develop new applications. They are helping a number of organizations to minimize...
Cloud-native development and deployment – Interview with Pivotal
For this week’s interview, I’m very happy to welcome Dormain Drewitz, Director Product Marketing at Pivotal.
Philipp Schöne (PS): Hi Dormain (DD), can you please present...
How to pick the best API creation tool (for your needs)
With the rise of the API Economy, forward-looking enterprises are increasingly relying on off-the-shelf tooling to help them fast-track their digital transformation journeys. Key...
API design, testing and monitoring – Interview with SmartBear Software
For this week's interview, I'm very happy to welcome Greg Lord, Director Product Marketing at Smartbear Software.
Stephane Castellani: Hi Greg, can you please present...
How and why should you optimize the performance of mobile APIs?
At one point or other we have all experienced mobile apps that we wish were faster and more responsive, but in almost all cases...
Ever heard of User Experience APIs?
APIs are often seen as a technology only but they are the essential infrastructure to enable any new User Experience (UX). In this case,...
What is API Orchestration?
Is it one API or multiple APIs? From the consumer perspective, it's often one API that they consume, but in the background, there might...
What is an API First definition?
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are the interfaces provided on the resources that you want to leverage in the interaction process from your customers, partners,...
API creation and microservices going mainstream
Building API-based and sophisticated microservices are going more and more mainstream these days. As a consequence of addressing the full lifecycle of APIs, this...
SaaS connectors – Interview with Cloud Elements
This week, I have had the pleasure to meet Ross Garrett, Head of Product Marketing at Cloud Elements. Ross accepted to share with us...
What size for your microservices?
The "microservice" term is going through a big hype. But beyond this trendy term which reflects the need for small (or very small) services,...