APIs Uncensored

0:00 - 02:49 Welcome and the rules that don't matter (why do we say them?)

02:50 - 06:45 John Sheehan's sordid past, including Rest# and how it pays for his parking

06:46 - 09:52 The birth and growth of Runscope

09:53 - 21:40 The birth and growth of API Monitoring (and how Lorinda & Ole were ahead of the curve but John was cooler)

21:41 - 24:00 Ole just has to talk about SOAP and John has a product name he wants to steal

24:00 - 44:30 Topic of the day: John's Starbucks cup, but mostly Webhooks (although John really wanted to talk about hockey)

44:31 - 56:00 Our favorite API news stories (Traffic & Weather, DevOps burn-out, APIstrat, Mashape & Paw, WordPress rewrite, Swift goes open source)

56:00 - 56:50 Ole forgets our email address again ([email protected])

Resources:

http://runscope.com

http://www.infoworld.com/article/3009004/devops/why-devops-is-burning-out-developers.html

http://clarify.io/blog/api-strategy-conference-2015-recap/

http://www.programmableweb.com/news/mashape-hopes-to-simplify-api-development-paw-partnership/2015/06/04

https://github.com/apple/swift

0:00 - 2:02 The usual ... intros and rules that don't matter (wherein Vanessa calls herself a "love refugee")

2:03 - 3:29 Who is Load Impact? What do they do and why?

3:30 - 29:00 Load test approaches and behaviors, API load testing concerns and strategies, general market observations

29:01 - 51:30 Maybe the Topic of the Day... marketing your API and more about load testing tools, strategies, industry, how marketing and load testing go together... just a lot of wandering conversation about API stuff

51:31 - 1:12:11 Our favorite news stories (see links below)

1:12:12 - 1:13:00 Ole remembers our email address!! ([email protected])

Links:

Love Refugees: http://lostinstockholm.com/2009/02/09/the-love-refugee-project/

Load Impact: http://loadimpact.com

FaceBook API issue: http://phys.org/news/2015-01-facebook-outage-affecting-users-worldwide.html#inlRlv

Absolut Vodka API: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpUAaBalq-Y

Nordic APIs: http://nordicapis.com

REST bashing: http://www.draconianoverlord.com/2015/08/11/rest-is-aging-graphql.html

APIMatic: http://apimatic.io

Medisafe & Human API: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/08/18/medisafe-human-api-idUSnPn82GGcz+8c+PRN20150818

0:00 - 3:48 Intro and Rules (with exclusions to the Exclusion Rule)

3:49 - 25:40 All about Jason, how the API process works at Paypal, and musings about API implementation/strategy

25:41 - 42:25 Topic of the day "enterprise APIs" and how to put governance in place effectively

42:26 - 54:15 News of the day

54:16 - end, wrap up

Resources:

Paypal (http://www.paypal.com)

Genius (http://genius.com)

Schema Guru (https://github.com/snowplow/schema-guru)

"White House Sides with Oracle" (http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/05/white-house-sides-with-oracle-tells-supreme-court-apis-are-copyrightable/)

API Workshop with Jason Harmon (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKK2ir0jqCvfB-kzBGka_Lg)

In this episode, we inflict ourselves on Marsh Gardiner to talk about Apigee, Swagger, and how Swagger is like regional cuisine

0:00-3:36 Welcome and Rules

3:37-13:58 Swagger and Apigee, how Swagger got its name, and a bit of praise for WADL (also some references to regional cuisine)

13:59-19:26 What's happening with Apigee and the world of API Management

19:27-28:00 A-127, Swagger tools, and Apigee's involvement with open source

28:01-50:30 Topic of the Day! Swagger governance

50:31-1:06:00 Our favorite news stories(Dropbox, autonomous cars, sdks.io)

References:

http://sdks.io

https://blogs.dropbox.com/developers/2015/04/a-preview-of-the-new-dropbox-api-v2/

http://techcrunch.com/2015/01/18/autonomous-cars-are-closer-than-you-think/

https://github.com/apigee-127/a127-documentation/wiki

http://swagger.io

http://apigee.com

Our guest in this episode is the one and only Mike Amundsen from API Academy.

0:00-4:19 The usual waste of time talking about the rules, the exceptions to the rules, and our never-ending quest for questions

4:20-15:17 API Academy, trends in API and microservices adoption

15:18-23:55 Contemporary culture of software development and new ways of interacting

23:36-38:30 Topic of the day! Hypermedia!

38:31-39:20 The stuff we should have edited out :-)

39:21-52:10 Favorite News Stories (Tinder, Opera, MSFT Azure)

Resources:

API Academy (http://www.apiacademy.co/)

Tinder API hack (http://www.theverge.com/2015/3/25/8277743/tinder-hack-bros-swiping-bros)

Demo Opera (http://abc7news.com/technology/historic-tech-demo-turned-into-an-opera-at-stanford/606725/)

Microsoft Azure and Swagger (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/webdev/archive/2015/03/24/introducing-azure-api-apps.aspx)

In this episode, we hold Laura Heritage hostage and make her talk to us about microservices and scrapbooking... really.

0:00-2:44 Welcome, intros, rules (and a plea for questions!)

2:45-5:49 Why SOA Software is now Akana Inc

5:50-8:29 What's going on these days at Akana

8:30-21:25 What it takes to throw "old dust off your shoulders" and be relevant in a younger changing market (in other words, old people from old technologies pondering meetups)

21:26-25:18 Hackathons... are they just so 2014?

25:19-43:30 Microservices... not just technology, but org, mindset, leadership too

43:31-53:03 Our favorite API news stories and wrap-up

In this episode, we catch up with Tony Tam, CEO of Reverb and creator of swagger.

0:00-2:24 Intros and House Rules (and obligatory complaints about cold snowy Boston)

2:25-6:34 How are things at Reverb and Wordnik? (and a little bit about adopting words)

6:35- 27:30 swagger - how does it compare to the other formats, taglines, benefit of community and contributors, tony shares his secret to success and uses the word "asymptotic" (look that up!), ole enlightens us about how swagger is like the GoPro of description formats

27:31- 33:55 future of swagger and some cool stuff added to swagger 2.0

33:56 - 46:20 Misconceptions about APIs (and maybe some TMI about Lorinda's family)

46:21 - 52:09 API News, where we pick our favorite news stories of the month

52:09 - 53:04 Wrap up

Resources:

swagger - http://swagger.io

swagger.ed - https://github.com/chefArchitect/swagger.ed

Alchemy API - alchemyapi.com

Tesla performance update - http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/car-technology/news/a24885/a-software-update-will-make-the-tesla-model-s-p85d-even-faster/

In this episode, we chat with John Musser, original founder of ProgrammableWeb and currently the CEO/Founder of API Science.

0:00-3:49 Intros and House Rules (3 minutes of rules! WHA-A-AT?)

3:50-8:39 What is John Musser up to now?

8:40-21:42 API Monitoring - current trends, importance, how it's different from web monitoring

21:43- 33:45 Kin Lane's API Subway Map

33:46-53:26 Our favorite news items and trends from the past month - API Security, MoonPig, IoT Congressional Caucus

Resources:

http://apiscience.com

http://subway.map.apievangelist.com/index.html

http://welivesecurity.com/2015/01/06/moonpig-security-hole

http://mashable.com/2015/01/03/internet-of-things-congressional-caucus