JJ Geewax
On web API versioning
A practical approach to understanding backward compatibility, versioning strategy, and how to strike a functional balance.
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APIs
This issue explores all things APIs—from their prehistory to their future, their design and development to their opportunities and impacts.
Jeff Lawson
The supply chain of software
As the software industry has grown and matured, so too has the transformative power of the API economy.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
On the shoulders of APIs
By fostering engagement and turning participants into cocreators, APIs can play a giant-sized role in scaling digital communities.
Tomer Elmalem
How should we build the APIs of tomorrow?
A meditation on embracing physics, improving developer experience, and evolving the status quo.
Darius Kazemi
The land before modern APIs
What the history of the HTTP status code can tell us about the future of API design.
Alvaro Videla
Consider the interface
Empathetic design thinking can reshape the way we build APIs—and the way others build with them.
Brett Willemsen
The Process: Revitalizing API development at PagerDuty
Focusing on simplicity and empowerment proved key.Michelle Bu
Eagerly discerning, discerningly eager
Approaches to crafting delightful, effective APIs that offer developers both convenience and stability.Increment Staff
APIs at scale
Leaders at Adobe, Airbnb, Kong, and PubNub talk API design, documentation, and development.Lucy Kerner
Ask an expert: How should organizations create and maintain threat models of API security risks?
Jennie Choi and Spencer Kiser
Connecting to art
How The Metropolitan Museum of Art used a public API to share 5,000 years of human creativity with audiences beyond its walls.Petteri Kivimäki
An intro to APIs and e-government
The CTO of the Nordic Institute for Interoperability Solutions explores the role of APIs in a global interoperability puzzle.Leemay Nassery
How low (code) can you go?
On low- and no-code solutions and streamlined possibilities for API integrations.Chris Stokel-Walker
Interview: Gail Frederick
The VP of eBay’s mobile and developer ecosystem talks access, innovation, and big technical changes.
