digibury: the power of web apis by paul hallett from twilio
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Developer Evangelist at Twilio, Paul Hallett, looks at the power of APIs in the modern web and how APIs are changing web app builds.TRANSCRIPT
THE POWER OF WEB APIS
DIGIBURY
APRIL 2014
HI. I’M PAULI’m a Developer Evangelist at twilio
WHAT IS AN API?
DEMO TIME
curl -‐X POST http://livedemo.com/start/ !HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/xml Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 19:35:26 GMT !<?xml version="1.0" ?> <Response> <Say>HOOT HOOT</Say> </Response>
THE PROBLEM
• Hardware
• Setup
• Negotiations
• Hiring
• Investment
APIS SET YOU FREE
THE SOLUTION
• Internet connection
• Creativity
PROVIDING SERVICES
PROVIDING DATA
POKEAPI.CO
• Completely open data API
• Nearly 2 million requests
• RESTful standards
THE FUTURE
THE NEW FOUNDATION
• APIs for all the services!
• Web applications spend 90% of their time consuming APIs
• Web applications can be built over night