APIs

This page is all about APIs, and the people/companies who work with them, the tools/languages the use, and of course the APIs themselves.  Think of this as a cornucopia of API loveliness.  Get your knapkin on!

I’m doing a little project that uses this information, check it out: Team API Development.

Humanery

Who are the shovers and makers in the world of APIs?

• Adam DuVander is an API dude, editor at Programmable Web
• John Musser, who I saw do a great presentation at Gluecon, is founder of Programmable Web.
• Roy Fielding isn’t an API dude, he’s a REST dude.  If you say your API is RESTful and it isn’t, he’ll smite you.
• Christian Reilly is an API believer, working at a large organization spreading the API marmite.
• Matthew Yeager has got “Chief” in his title, so he’s got to know what he’s talking about when it comes to APIs.
• Apigee are a company who only deal in APIs.
• Brian Mulloy works for Apigee and authored the Facade book.
• Mark O’Neill is a CTO at an API company called Vordel
• George Reese is the Hannibal Lector of APIs, eating those that offend him – see Artifactery for his book link.
• Daniel Jacobson is the Netflix API guy and co-author API Strategy (O’Reilly).
• Greg Brail is the Apigee CTO and co-author API Strategy (O’Reilly).
• Dan Woods is a CTO leader and co-author API Strategy (O’Reilly).
• Derek Willis of New York Times API.
• Shanley Kane needs no introduction, not from me anyway!
• Steve Smith from AccuWeather.
• Kin Lane the API Evangelist
• Jim Webber (co-author REST in Practice)
• Savas Parastatidis (co-author REST in Practice)
• Ian Robinson (co-author REST in Practice)
• Martin Fowler (commentator on Richardson’s Maturity Model for REST)
• Leonard Richardson author of Richardson’s Maturity Model for REST.
• API Craft is a Google Group
• Oisin Hurley is Co-founder converser.io

Artifactery

A ordanance survey map of API things on t’interweb

• OpenID 2 Specification (Final)
• Programmable Web – the API directory
• Apigee’s free webinars and eBook on API Facade – don’t agree with the versioning int he URL though…
• Netflix Blog – just because the guys at that company rock, there’s all sorts of goodness there.
• REpresentational State Transfer on Wikipedia
• Roy Fielding on Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures
• Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State (HATEOS) on Wikipedia
• The REST API Design Handbook by George Reese.
• RFC 2616 HTTP Response Codes on W3.org.
• RFC 6585 Additional HTTP Response Codes on W3.org.
• RFC 2068 HTTP/1.1 Protocol
• RFC 2616 HTTP/1.1 Protocol
• RFC 2396 Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax
• RFC 6570 URI Template
• APIs: A Strategy Guide on O’Reilly by Daniel Jacobson, Greg Brail, Dan Woods.
• Kin Lane’s website The API Evangelist where there’s also a link to his co-authored book, The Business of APIs (which I haven’t read yet, sorry Kin!).
• REST APIs must be hypertext-driven on Roy Fielding’s Blog (2008)
• Waka – A replacement for HTTP (in development) by Roy Fielding (slides)
• Rest in Practice (book)
• Leonard Richardson’s Maturity Model – slides from Justice will take a million intricate moves.
• Richardson’s Maturity Model: Steps towards the glory of REST – Martin Fowler’s blog
• Web Application Description Language (WADL) – the REST version of WSDL, on Wikipedia
• WADL on W3C
• Simple Made Easy - video of Rich Hickey explaining simplicity over easiness
• Simple REST Services with Sinatra – slides from Oisin Hurley on doing simple REST in Ruby
• Constructing REST APIs with Rack, Sinatra and MongoDB – more from Oisin Hurley
• Netflix API Documentation
• Explaining the API revolution to your CEO – Dan Woods on Forbes (props James Kane for pointing this out)
• Foundations for Software Architecture – Perry and Wolf
• An Introduction to Software Architectures – Garlan and Shaw
• Routes on Rails – a screencast to show how routes are handled

Machinery

API frankensteins unite!

• Rack – it’s not what you think!  Useful in API delivery.
• Sinatra - Sinatra is a DSL for quickly creating web applications in Ruby with minimal effort.
• Apigee Console – for interacting with APIs.