If you’re a modern sort of infrastructure engineer, you’re likely interested in APIs.

Structured data, everybody. That’s a big win. RESTful APIs are the most common you’re likely to run into when managing infrastructure, and on today’s show I interview Chris all about RESTful API fundamentals.

Your buzzword bingo list includes automation, abstraction, pagination, idempotent, JSON, YAML, swagger, and versioning. Drink!

We discuss:

* What is a REST and how provides a set of definitions for how APIs can share data

* How APIs work

* How APIs tie into automation

* The anatomy of an API conversation

* Key subjects including authorization, pagination, versioning, and idempotent requests

* Education and training available from Rubrik Build

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Show Links:

Stripe

Swagger – GitHub

Rubrik Build – Rubrik

Roxie at Rubrik: GitHub Repositories for Learning – GitHub

Roxie Workshop Automation (PDF of slides)

Your Hosts:

Ethan Banks

Chris Wahl