A University API

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The University API

Phillip J. Windley, Ph.D.Brigham Young Universityhttp://www.windley.com

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Software is Eating the World!More and more major businesses and industries are being run on software and delivered as online services—from movies to agriculture to national defense. Many of the winners are Silicon Valley-style entrepreneurial technology companies that are invading and overturning established industry structures. Over the next 10 years, I expect many more industries to be disrupted by software, with new world-beating Silicon Valley companies doing the disruption in more cases than not.

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Bake your business model into your API

- John Musser Founder, Programmable Web

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Principle #1: Design Business-Oriented APIs

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/students/instructors/courses/classes/locations/programs/colleges/departments

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Principle #2: Ensure interfaces are open, extensible, and published

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GET /studentsGET /students?major=CS

GET /students/:idGET /students/:id?fieldset=transcripts

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POST /students

{id: ... first_name: ... last_name: ... ...

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Principle #3: Support student and faculty choice.

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Principle #4: Access Control Happens at the API

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Principle #5: Keep workflow below the API

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HATEOASHypertext as the Engine of

Application State

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An ever expanding range of computing platforms are needed to reach students

@windleySource: Morgan Stanley Mobile Internet Report (12/09)

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Hundreds, even thousands of developerswho don’t work for youmust be convinced to adapt your product to the dynamic environment of various apps

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Principle #6: Developers are Your Customer

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Principle #7: Cloud First

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Principle #8: Security is Too Important to Not Outsource

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Principle #9: Focus on What’s Core

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Principle #10: APIs First

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Principle #11: Start Where You Are

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Principles for Starting an API Initiative1. Design business-oriented APIs2. Ensure interfaces are open, extensible, and published3. Support student and faculty choice.4. Control access at the API5. Keep workflow below the API6. Make developers the customer7. Be cloud first8. Security is too important to not outsource9. Focus on what’s core10. Buy and build API first11. Start where you are

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Resources• Mashup Corporations’• The Phoenix Project• Implementing Domain Driven Design• Kin Lane on University APIs• windley.com

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Join us on this journey

• @UniversityAPI• University API Workshops• Utah, Feb 28-Mar 1, 2017 (http://bit.ly/UAPI2017)• Chicago Summer 2017

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The University API

Phillip J. Windley, Ph.D.Brigham Young Universityhttp://www.windley.com

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Other issues• Other university APIs: services like lockers, vending machines, health,

payments, HR, calendars, assets, library, collections