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APIs for the non programmers

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Thinking of you. Customizing the store of the WSO2 API

Manager for the non programmer

Eduardo BasterrecheaApicultur

CEO



Thinking of you. Customizing the store of the WSO2 API Manager for the non programmer




@ebaste API



APIs: are not a new way to do things that I can do now.



APIs: are not only a new way to do things that I can do now.



API: a way to offer my knowledge and abilities to the rest of the world.



Everyone has abilities or knowledge to offer



APIs

specialization

collaboration



specialization



collaboration



Once upon a time...



About 10.000 years ago...



In the earth lived a bunch of different animals...



Some of them have been living on earth for millions of years...



Crocodiles...

55.000.000 years

6 hours under water!



Great white shark...

15.000.000 years

90% of great white sharks disappeared in the last 20 years



Sabertooth...

...competition with humans



Mamuts... 5.000.000 years ago to 5.700 years ago



And a newcomer...



Who will be the earth dominant?



Why did the human being win this war?



Why did the human being win this battle?



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Other animals collaborate, but do they havespecialists?



You can choose to specialize and collaborate or not.



But remember what happened to the guys who chose not to collaborate!



We are facing a disruptive change. Sure!



To break barriers



To surpass the limits



With a little help of everybody, of course!



But, it’s easyto use an API?



From a developerspoint of view?



From a end user point of view?



Could your mother use an API?



OAuth

Header

JSON

CurlREST



Is it really necessary to know this?



Two cases...



Simplify the process



Do we need to create a huge consortium of experts?



Not really!



Two basic ideas:

Lego Graphical interface



Lego

Connectivity



Graphical interface

Interaction



But,…you’re not convinced



Let’s talk about another example...



against



@ebaste

Different times, different situations, but... Let’s play



Ipad: 1.000.000 sales in one month...



IBM PC: 5 years to sell 1.000.000



60x



Ipad: 33.000.000 sales in 19 months...



7x



Ipad: 100.000.000 units in 32 months...



6x



6x - 60x more customers



A last opinion...



Alan Kay



XPARC Alto

1973

very near from here



The desktop metaphor...



The scroll bar...



The ethernet,(LAN)...



The GUI..



Laser printing..



Icons..



Windows..



Bitmaps..



WYSIWYG..



Smalltalk, the Object Oriented paradigm



The only failure...



Every computer user will be a programmer



¿Fail?



APIs are simple



@ebaste

APIs are very simple



Some ideas to begin...



@ebaste

One application...



One subscription...



The copy paste experience



Test it, use it for free without credit card info

or even registration



Every business owner will be happy to offer this at no cost!



Every one!



Examples, pieces of code, more examples…



More advanced...



Graphical interface



Connectors



Create their

own APIs

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