Cooking With Your API

Andrew Noonan @noonisms

APIs are HARD …design

…implement …docs

…security …adoption

Hooray Adoption

mission accomplished happy users profit??

Adoption = = Scale

APIs can live and die by their

DOCUMENTATION

Lets Cook Something

ingredients flavors combos

recipes take away

Ingredients

API Reference

GET /streams/track/{label}.json

POST /streams/track/{label}/rules.json

DELETE/streams/track/{label}/rules.json

GET /streams/track/{label}/rules.json

FLAVOR combos

Overviews

Recipes

Demo Apps

SendGrid github.com/scottmotte/sendgrid-java-example Gnip github.com/gnip/search-api-rails-demo