10.20.2005 Web APIs and Enterprise: On Agility, Community and Governance. Layer 7 Webinar April 19 th 2012
May 10, 2015
10.20.2005
Web APIs and Enterprise: On Agility,
Community and Governance.
Layer 7 Webinar April 19th 2012
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Rise of the APIs
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Rise of the API Giants
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Fragmentation of Everything
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Explosion of Forms
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Language Tiers
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No Permission Required
Source @cbtacey, AppFog
data from National Venture Capital Association and UNH Center for Venture Research
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Forage
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Then Forge
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On Quality
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On Engagement
• The API Economy is a social phenomenon• Community management is not optional – invest in people• Your people may already be good at this• Hiring gets easier• Web APIs set the bar for consumability• APIs can’t build communities
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On Design
• Good APIs generate great PR - early adopters as evangelists• Bad APIs generate a ton of calls to your support organisation• REST not SOAP (and definitely not WS-*)• JSON not XML• API first design encourages service modularity, enabling reuse• Easy to Learn, Easy to Use, Easy to Extend• Minimum Progress to Declare Victory. Avoid “Requirement Creep”
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“The lumber industry sells what used to be waste — sawdust, chips, and shredded wood — for a pretty profit. Today you’ll find these by-products in synthetic fireplace logs, concrete, mulch, particle board, fuel, livestock and pet bedding, winter road traction, weed killing and more.”
Jason Fried, 37signals
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Engagement with customers, partners, employees, and other stakeholders
generates data
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• Location, location, location• Influence patterns• Customer service feedback• Sentiment• Geographical trends• Search Findings• Predicting retail and property sales
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Right now, if you think of the data at all, you probably consider it a by-product
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Why not turn it into API?
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QUESTIONS
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Photo credits
Breadcrumb – diongillard on FlickrPathway by ^riza^ on FlickrSF in Cloud – SF Chronicle
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