THE ARCHITECT!IS NOT CONVINCED

Adam DuVander @adamd :!!!

NordicAPIs 2014

Your Typical Developer

Claire Thompson

Claire Thompson

Felipe Venâncio

Ray Devlin

Who is the Architect?

How We’ll Convince the Architect

Control

Reliability

Security

Longevity

Infrastructure APIs

Content APIs

Application APIs

CONTROL

Can We Build It?

Tom Hughes-Croucher Em

Yes We Can! But do we need to?

Can We Touch It?

Dave Lawler

Your Biggest Competitors

You C1 C2 C3

Your Biggest Competitors

You C1 C2 C3

C0

Embrace Standards/Conventions

Lucene Query Syntax

(apis OR api) AND nordic

topic:apis AND country:sweden

days:[1 TO 3]

Client Library Abstractions

db.get('collection', 'key')

db.put('collection', 'key', { “data”: “goes here” })

Client Library Abstractions

db.get('collection', 'key')

db.put('collection', 'key', { “data”: “goes here” })

Data Export

Data Export

my data in

my data out

Bulk Downloads

Bulk Downloads

On Premises / Dedicated Option

John McStravick

RELIABILITY

Twitter’s SXSW Downtime

API Survey

What Downtime?

Goals of a Status Page

Be Transparent

Be Helpful

Be Proactive

Provide Status Updates

Show Current API Health

Show Current API Health

Show Current API Health

Show Recent Issues and Downtime

Show Recent Issues and Downtime

SECURITY

Your Systems

Scott Schiller

Eran Sandler

Process for Data Access

Thom

as Guest

Privacy

Share Best Practices

Data Ownership

LONGEVITY

LaptopMag

LaptopMag

API Business Models

John Musser — bit.ly/apibizmodels

33+ Dead GoogleAPIs

@adamd at #nordicapis

“Worrying about API longevity is just another way to ask for more control.”

THE ARCHITECT!CAN BE CONVINCED

and we can do it together

Ray Devlin

Felipe Venâncio

Convincing the Architect Together

Control: Provide as much as is necessary

Reliability: Be transparent, proactive, helpful

Security: Systems, processes, best practices

Longevity: Do your best, fall back to control

Let’s talk about it: @adamd