How to optimize your Restlet Framework API server by Thierry Templier, taking advantage of caching, compression, custom converters, template engine configuration, and more.
Venmo halts new developer access to its API. Compared to Facebook’s recent sunsetting of Parse, Venmo’s move was more brutal and not very well communicated, reminding us it’s important to keep in mind that APIs you depend on could vanish unexpectedly, and that you should remember to mitigate such risks. Twilio’s CEO also reacted on Medium with a post on your strategy’s last message to developers.
Kin Lanes shared his small business API strategy research, with a very thorough and structured list of topics covered.
The API Handyman is back! Arnaud Lauret published two tutorial articles on writing OpenAPI specifications: an introduction with part one, and the basics with part two. More to come, in this series, so stay tuned.
This week was running APIDays Australia. Frank Arrigo compiled a list of interesting tweets about the conference and gave a recap of the conference. And I’ve spotted Steven Willmott’s slides on the platform age. I also spotted the slides of Mike Amundsen on the fact the “I” of API stands for Innovation.
On InfoQ, Charles Humble interview John Sheehan on Web API quality.
Akana’s Laura Heritage proposes an API IQ test, with 11 questions on the theme of APIs to test your knowledge in the field!
What is API management by Robert Broeckelmann.
RESTful API best practices and common pitfalls by Spencer Schneidenbach.
SmartBear announces the release of Ready! API TestServer, which is a server application that can receive tests through an API and that will run them.
On InfoQ, Benjamin Young writes about StopLight’s launch if its visual API design tools.
A list of cloud Machine Learning APIs.
Keith Casey published his slide deck from ConFoo about the 12 reasons why you API sucks.
The JSON Assert library, explained by Marcin Grzejszczak.
APIDoc, a cross-language inline documentation for RESTful Web APIs.
A material design template for making your Swagger UI prettier and more modern.
How to build an API with the Lumen micro-framework by Giovanni Casinelli.
Sergio del Amo shows how to secure a Grails 3 API with Spring Security REST.
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