Three Devs and a Maybe

118: API Ramblings with Phil Sturgeon

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In this weeks show we are joined by Phil Sturgeon to discuss all things API development.

We start off by mentioning Phil’s new job at WeWork, Startup life/culture and switching between different development philosophies.
We move on to highlight how he got into API development, the reasons behind writing the book “Build APIs You Won’t Hate” and a future video-series he has in the pipeline.
This leads on to discuss common misconceptions of REST and RPC, API tooling available and the different data-formats present.
Finally, we mention the importance of good error-handling within an API (no 200 responses!) and some of the bad-stories he has heard/encountered on the topic.

Show Links
  • Phil Sturgeon on Twitter
  • PHP Town Hall - Episode 51 - Good Riddance
  • API Busters
  • Build APIs You Won’t Hate
  • API Documentation - Do it First - Phil Sturgeon
  • GraphQL vs REST - Overview - Phil Sturgeon
  • Fractal - Output complex, flexible, AJAX/RESTful data structures
  • rails-api/active_model_serializers
  • PHP vs Ruby - Let’s All Just Get Along
  • philsturgeon/codeigniter-restclient: A RESTful client CodeIgniter library that can auto-detect the format and request its own.
  • Richardson Maturity Model
  • Building a Decent API - Phil Sturgeon
  • JSON Schema
  • JSON-LD - JSON for Linking Data
  • GraphQL
  • google/protobuf: Protocol Buffers - Google’s data interchange format
  • BSON - Binary JSON
  • API Blueprint
  • RAML
  • Swagger
  • apiaryio/dredd: Language-agnostic HTTP API Testing Framework
  • ngrok - secure introspectable tunnels to localhost
  • JSON API — A specification for building APIs in JSON
  • The Hypertext Application Language
  • Runscope API Testing and Monitoring
  • JSON API — Error Handling
  • RFC 7807 - Problem Details for HTTP APIs
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