THE POWER OF WEB APIS

DIGIBURY

APRIL 2014

HI. I’M PAULI’m a Developer Evangelist at twilio

WHAT IS AN API?

DEMO TIME

curl  -­‐X  POST  http://livedemo.com/start/  !HTTP/1.1 200 OK Content-Type: application/xml Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 19:35:26 GMT !<?xml version="1.0" ?> <Response> <Say>HOOT HOOT</Say> </Response>

THE PROBLEM

• Hardware

• Setup

• Negotiations

• Hiring

• Investment

APIS SET YOU FREE

THE SOLUTION

• Internet connection

• Creativity

PROVIDING SERVICES

PROVIDING DATA

POKEAPI.CO

• Completely open data API

• Nearly 2 million requests

• RESTful standards

THE FUTURE

THE NEW FOUNDATION

• APIs for all the services!

• Web applications spend 90% of their time consuming APIs

• Web applications can be built over night

THANKS@phalt_

!

paul@twilio.com