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The Art of Effective API Design

This presentation was recorded at the 2014 Nordic APIs Platform Summit in Stockholm. It is known that an API designer’s goal has evolved to a more developer-centric model. However, the design process has evolved at a slower pace, often resulting in an interface that under-delivers on the initial usability goal. Is there an opportunity to […]

TechTalk: Enterprise Mobility – APIs, Apps, and Mobile Strategy

With employee demands for anywhere access to information and the rise of the mobile device in driving new consumer experiences, it’s more important than ever to have a solid enterprise mobility strategy. We discussed the key elements which are making today’s enterprise mobility programs successful with Layer7 mobile experts SVP and Distinguished Engineer Scott Morrison […]

TechTalk: Avoiding Data Silos Using Linked APIs

Practical problems that software architects on modern product teams face increasingly go far beyond the familiar. Case in point: “Big Data” doesn’t just mean petabytes of data or a data-set that doesn’t fit in a single large RDBMS, anymore. A “distributed system” doesn’t just mean a clever multi-tier architecture or even an AWS deployment happily […]

API360: Do Developers Dream of Electric Sheep?

In this video, shot at the Dallas API360 Summit in February 2015, Ronnie Mitra – Director of API Design at the API Academy – discusses the importance of designing APIs with the real needs of client app developers in mind. If you want your APIs to enable the creation of apps that add true value to your business, you […]