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Thinking of you. Customizing the store of the WSO2 API Manager for the non programmer
APIs for the non programmers
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APIs for the non programmers
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APIs: are not a new way to do things that I can do now.
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APIs: are not only a new way to do things that I can do now.
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API: a way to offer my knowledge and abilities to the rest of the world.
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Everyone has abilities or knowledge to offer
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APIs
specialization
collaboration
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specialization
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collaboration
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Once upon a time...
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About 10.000 years ago...
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In the earth lived a bunch of different animals...
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Some of them have been living on earth for millions of years...
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Crocodiles...
55.000.000 years
6 hours under water!
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Great white shark...
15.000.000 years
90% of great white sharks disappeared in the last 20 years
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Sabertooth...
...competition with humans
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Mamuts... 5.000.000 years ago to 5.700 years ago
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And a newcomer...
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Who will be the earth dominant?
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Why did the human being win this war?
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Why did the human being win this battle?
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Other animals collaborate, but do they havespecialists?
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You can choose to specialize and collaborate or not.
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But remember what happened to the guys who chose not to collaborate!
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We are facing a disruptive change. Sure!
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To break barriers
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To surpass the limits
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With a little help of everybody, of course!
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But, it’s easyto use an API?
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From a developerspoint of view?
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From a end user point of view?
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Could your mother use an API?
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OAuth
Header
JSON
CurlREST
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Is it really necessary to know this?
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Two cases...
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Simplify the process
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Do we need to create a huge consortium of experts?
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Not really!
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Two basic ideas:
Lego Graphical interface
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Lego
Connectivity
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Graphical interface
Interaction
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But,…you’re not convinced
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Let’s talk about another example...
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against
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Different times, different situations, but... Let’s play
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Ipad: 1.000.000 sales in one month...
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IBM PC: 5 years to sell 1.000.000
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60x
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Ipad: 33.000.000 sales in 19 months...
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IBM PC: 10 years to sell 33.000.000
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7x
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Ipad: 100.000.000 units in 32 months...
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IBM PC: 15 years to sell 100.000.000
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6x
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6x - 60x more customers
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A last opinion...
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Alan Kay
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XPARC Alto
1973
very near from here
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The desktop metaphor...
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The scroll bar...
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The ethernet,(LAN)...
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The GUI..
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Laser printing..
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Icons..
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Windows..
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Bitmaps..
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WYSIWYG..
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Smalltalk, the Object Oriented paradigm
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The only failure...
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Every computer user will be a programmer
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¿Fail?
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APIs are simple
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APIs are very simple
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Some ideas to begin...
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One application...
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One subscription...
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The copy paste experience
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Test it, use it for free without credit card info
or even registration
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Every business owner will be happy to offer this at no cost!
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Every one!
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Examples, pieces of code, more examples…
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More advanced...
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Graphical interface
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Connectors
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Create their
own APIs
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