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Road to REST
Rickard Oberg explains how to expose use-cases to solve the linking problem in RESTful APIs, and how this will simplify both API development, documentation, as well as client development.
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APIs in Government
Gray Brooks discusses the efforts around creating APIs for accessing the vast amounts of data administered by the US Government.
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Generic Hypermedia and Domain-Specific APIs: RESTing in the ALPS
Mike Amundsen describes the ALPS standard, a way to define the data and workflow details for a Web application and apply these details consistently regardless of the media type in use.
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Introducing the BBC's Linked Data Platform and APIs
David Rogers outlines how a highly-scalable RDF and SPARQL-based API was delivered, how a graph of highly-connected data can be managed effectively across a large organization, and more.
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Beyond APIs: Creating an Ecosystem Around Your Business
Sanjiva Weerawarana keynotes on building a ecosystem and transforming the business into a service by creating and providing an API.
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Building APIs by Building on APIs
Paul Downey and David Heath discuss the UK Government Digital Service API Design Principles, the lessons learnt from building the GOV.UK publishing platform and transactional services on APIs.
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API Business Models. 20 Models in 20 Minutes
John Musser presents 20 API business models explaining how developers can make money with their APIs.
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Functional Reactive Programming in the Netflix API
Ben Christensen describes how Neflix has optimized their API using a functional reactive programming (modeled after Rx) in a polyglot Java stack.
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The Structure of API Revolutions
Daniel Jacobson shares advice on dealing with evolving APIs based on his experience with Netflix APIs.
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API Conf Keynote: Steve Klabnik on "Why Open?"
Steve Klabnik discusses the importance of having an open API, believing that those who have it will succeed in the long run, and the others will fail.
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API Conf Keynote: Jeff Meisel, National Instruments
Jeff Meisel shares insight in National Instruments’ attempt to create an open API for their software spanning 25 years.