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From Customer Self Service Portals to Web APIs
Florian Marquardt presents how Regiocom has created and uses web APIs to serve the energy market in several countries.
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Reinventing Credit Insurance with APIs
Christophe Spoerry discusses embedding insurance in B2B innovations.
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How to Survive the API Copyright Apocalypse
Steven Willmott recommends avoiding the possible API copyright troubles by sharing API definitions rather than copyrighting them.
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The Future of Your Business Needs an API Program... Now!
Roberto Galves discusses the need and how to develop an API-as-a-Business initiative to face the current economy.
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Your API - Don’t Make Developers Hate It
Adeel Ali shares from experience working with developers in 10 programming languages, covering what works and what not, and how to use automation to create a beautiful developer experience for APIs.
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API Design and the Future of API Descriptions Formats
Zdenek Nemec discusses the birth, evolution, and the current and the foreseeable future of web APIs.
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The State of API Languages
Jerome Louvel discusses the state of API languages, covering especially OAS, RAML and API Blueprint.
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Scaling Your API Development Workflow
Vincenzo Chianese shares an API development workflow based on culture, understanding, communication and collaboration.
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How to Talk about APIs
Andrew Seward presents tips on how to talk about an API and how to create an ubiquitous language for that.
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WebHooks: The API Strikes Back
Phil Nash takes a look at services that use Webhooks, exploring reasons to use WebHooks and the emerging best practices, and discusses implementing WebHook endpoints with live coded examples.
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Building out Hypermedia Clients
Todd Brackley outlines the general engine of a hypermedia client implementation, what API forms look like, and then outlines five design issues useful in creating such clients.
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Simplifying API Development
Abhinav Asthana discusses methods for simplifying API development.