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Behind Closed Doors: The World of Private APIs
Attend any Web API presentation and you are likely to see a graph like this one, demonstrating the growth of publicly-available Web APIs. Speakers (including me) love using these graphs for good...
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API Design Tutorial: The Interaction Model
API design can be daunting. With so many decisions to make and so many differing opinions available on interface design, it’s easy to feel frustrated by the process. Even worse, it’s possible to...
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API Design Tutorial: Pagination
At the Layer 7 API Academy, we’ve had a few requests from API designers who are seeking strategies for handling large amounts of data in API responses. Pagination is the most common method for...
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Considerations for Private APIs
In the past, we’ve talked about the nature of private APIs (those interfaces that are built primarily to serve an organization’s own projects rather than to fulfill the needs of others). But what are...
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Compromised Twitter OAuth Keys
So Twitter’s OAuth keys have leaked. What does that mean? Don’t panic. The consequences of a client application’s key being compromised is as serious as user credentials being compromised. The risk...
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When Good API Design is a Waste of Time
The idea that good design is essential to building great products and services has become a truism in our industry. Most of us intuitively understand the idea that expending effort on the design of...
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Designing Web APIs – A Candid Conversation
It was just over a year ago that we hosted our first API Workshop (for the record, it was July 2012 in Sydney Australia). Since then, I and my API Academy buddies Ronnie Mitra and Alex Gaber have had...
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Thanks to All Who’ve Been Good This Year
The year 2013 has been one heck of an adventure for me. My work with Layer 7, CA Technologies and the API Academy team (yes, we have many names!) has taken me around the world, allowed me to speak at...
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SDK vs API – Round 2
Inspired by a conversation with Kin Lane and Mike Amundsen at last year’s APIdays conference in Paris, I decided to dig deeper into the SDK-vs-API debate. As I wrote in my last post, I had noticed a...
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The View From #API360
It was my great pleasure to join our inaugural #api360 event in Washington, DC, Sept 12. The Newseum was an ideal venue, offering a stunning cityscape view including the Capitol building and, of...
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