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Transcript of Digibury: The Power of Web APIs by Paul Hallett from Twilio
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