In a very real way, APIs are technology’s bridges. And like bridges in the physical world, these digital bridges must be engineered carefully to function and last as intended. Designing an API that’s ...

In the last decade, every web application developer has become an API designer. But most organizations do not think of developers as API designers, nor do they think about APIs as a product of design ...

Daniel Jacobson (Twitter | LinkedIn), is currently director of engineering for the Netflix API. Prior to Netflix, Daniel ran application development for NPR where, among other things, he created the ...

There are two broad pathways to designing RESTful APIs. One is the open process approach, which is the most common. This approach focuses on steps and tools that support the process of API design, ...

Latest Version of Popular Open Source Swagger UI and Editor to Launch by SmartBear at IBM InterConnect – March 19-23, 2017 – Las Vegas SOMERVILLE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SmartBear Software, the ...

Microsoft’s Concise API Design Language has a new name and a larger role to play in building REST, OpenAPI, gRPC, and other services. Some time ago I wrote about the work Microsoft was doing to ...

RapidAPI, an online marketplace that lets developers discover and manage application programming interfaces (APIs), has acquired Estonian startup Paw, creators of a Mac app for designing and testing ...

Every enterprise will likely use a hybrid cloud model in some capacity, so development teams need to consider how to approach building software for this environment. Developers should explore common ...

I sat at a table with faculty, technologists, CIOs, startup founders and students, all gathered under one roof to tackle the question: How might we use application program interfaces (APIs) to empower ...

When you’re writing software for other people to use in their applications, designing the API is important. The API is the interface that developers see and work with. Building on top of a great API ...