APIs and the Bot Revolution (APIDays Nordic, May 18)

APIs and the Bot Revolution

Nicolas Grenié Hacker in Residence at 3scale @picsoung

APIdays Nordic 19th May 2016

Tampere, Finland

How Bots are changing APIs

APIDays Nordic - May 2016 Nicolas Grenié - !picsoung

@picsoung

3scale.net/jobs

700+ clientsbillions of API calls per month

SlackFund: $80 M to Slack Bot Startups

350k new users each day

15Bn messages daily

100 million MAUs

source: http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/23/telegram-now-has-100-million-monthly-active-users-a-60-increase-in-9-months/

350k new users each day

15Bn messages daily

100 million MAUs

source: http://venturebeat.com/2016/02/23/telegram-now-has-100-million-monthly-active-users-a-60-increase-in-9-months/

$1 million to Bot Devs

900 million MAUs

launched on April 12th 2016

10k+ developers

Call of Duty bot exchanged 6M messages in a week

source: http://techcrunch.com/2016/05/10/facebook-chatbot-analytics/

300M users6000 bots

215M usersbot APIs just launched

700M users

It goes beyond text

Agenda

1. APIs are bot enablers2. Bots are changing APIs3. APIs as tools for bots

I. APIs are

bot enablers

Bots without APIs

are stupid

Birdly

Alterra Travel Agent

Poncho

APIs for Bots

" Platform APIs

APIs for Bots

" Platform APIs

Data APIs

APIs for Bots

" Platform APIs

Data APIs

Action APIs

intelligence and data

come from APIS

II. Bots are changing

Bots will force you to change

your API

+ # $!

Conversational Interface

generic input

easy win=

Example

Issues•Results are not organized ex. API search for “Uber”

•Need another API call to refine result

Limited number of items

Sort by relevance

Hypermedia design

🐰APIbunny🍫

Examplebuilt with

III. APIs as tools for bots

Bots are your new API

consumers

make the bot builder’s

life easier

bot builders are your

new audience

is your API

bot ready?

radical change in internet

consumption

Takeaways•challenge your API on no-UI applications

•target for bot usage•paradigm shift to CI

Microsoft Tay

Love bots

ReferencesDaft Punk by Kooroshication https://www.flickr.com/photos/kooroshication/8881035467 (CC)

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