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The Yummly API: A digital kitchen platform

Originally Authored by Guillaume BalasAt Yummly, our vision is to mesh the power of data and technology with the love of food to accommodate an accelerated...

0 replies - 1006 views - 03/27/13 by Steven Willmott in Articles

10 Tips for Designing Your Mobile APIs

It's common for a mobile application to need to communicate with a web/cloud based service. At its simplest this will be just to retrieve data but it could...

1 replies - 4512 views - 03/26/13 by Matt Lacey in Articles

Introducing the Google Cloud Connectors Suite (Part 1/3)

Mark Zuckenberg once said: “How can you connect the world if you leave out China”. Well, I now hereby say: “How can you connect the cloud if you...

0 replies - 1075 views - 03/25/13 by Mariano Gonzalez in Articles

Sports Fans Cheer for the Newly Opened ESPN API - Sports Data Galore!

Originally authored by David EasonRecently ESPN opened up their treasure trove of data to the developer community by releasing an API. It looks great,...

0 replies - 2609 views - 03/25/13 by Ross Mason in Articles

API and SOA Convergence

As the technology discussion pivots to focus on APIs, teams are wondering how API and SOA converge.   Are services simply being re-branded?  Are...

0 replies - 1450 views - 03/21/13 by Chris Haddad in Articles

The API Pipes, From Resource to Last Mile

This post is more rant, and about me working through my thoughts on this subject, which is why its on kinlane.com and not apievangelist.com or apivoice.com....

0 replies - 2325 views - 03/19/13 by Kin Lane in Articles

The Value of APIs for Valuable Data

At the IIS Summit last year, the panelists covered a range of areas of value, but there was also some confusion as to what impacts API openness and...

0 replies - 1691 views - 03/14/13 by Steven Willmott in Articles

Using Facades to Decouple API Integrations

The most important part of building an integration with an API is actually writing the code that will connect with the Web service and invoke its methods. I'll...

1 replies - 5256 views - 03/13/13 by Bruno Pedro in Articles

Mule School: Integration with Social Media: Part II – Facebook

This tutorial is the second in a series of blog posts that explain how to integrate Mule and Social Media. Today’s post will focus on connecting to...

0 replies - 1218 views - 03/07/13 by Tom Stroobants in Articles

From open source to open API with Restlet

From open source to open API with Restlet from JavaZone on Vimeo. The impressive rise of open web APIs disrupts the way we develop on the Web, in a way...

0 replies - 1272 views - 03/07/13 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Surveying 1000 APIs – Think APIs are for Startups Only? Think Again!

As the API Ecosystem grows, at 3scale we often asked where growth is fastest and how to characterize certain trends. While this is challenging to do, sites...

0 replies - 3055 views - 03/04/13 by Steven Willmott in Articles

The LedgerSMB Service Locator for UDF's: How it Works

One of the questions I got from a post last week was how the LedgerSMB service locator works.  In the past I have covered the database design side, but...

0 replies - 1529 views - 03/01/13 by Chris Travers in Articles

Top 10 API Blog Posts Last Year

APIs came more and more to the forefront of tech-thinking in 2012 and there was some great thinking about API trends and the Web more generally. We’ve...

0 replies - 2879 views - 02/28/13 by Steven Willmott in Articles

How to Protect Your APIs with OAuth

Here's an important question in the world of APIs: Presume that you would like to create a remote API (which perhaps exposes some legacy business logic) for...

0 replies - 4522 views - 02/27/13 by Reza Shafii in Articles

5 Things We Learned About APIs At Apistrat

We just had two amazing days at API Strategy and Practice in New York with great conversations! A full review coming up – but on the way home we just...

0 replies - 1671 views - 02/26/13 by Steven Willmott in Articles