118: API Ramblings with Phil Sturgeon
Three Devs and a Maybe
English - February 01, 2017 08:55 - 42.3 MB - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsTechnology Education Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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.
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