Shuttering the API was the "Worst Thing We Did."
Jack Dorsey, Twitter, and the API platform lessons to be learned from nearly two decades of strategic pivots. (2006-2024) - ¡APIcryphal! 07
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Case Studies - the ¡APIcryphal!
True(ish) stories from APIs' past to inform and guide APIs' future.
"REST Has Become A Buzzword"
Fielding, REST, and the continuous, even contrarian, act of industry reinterpretation. (2000, 2007, 2017) - ¡APIcryphal! 06
COPE: "No way we could have gotten that done without an API"
How NPR's COPE strategy came to define API-driven flexibility for media companies at the turn of the millennium. (2002-2009) - ¡APIcryphal! 05
BizDev 2.0: "Much, much better this way!"
Caterina Fake's 2006 naming of "BizDev 2.0": an API-enabled approach to partnerships and its relevance today. - ¡APIcryphal! 04
"SOA is dead; long live services."
What Anne Thomas's SOA insight says about today's API Practice? (2009) - ¡APIcryphal! 03
OAuth 2.0 and the "Road to Hell"
Revisiting Eran Hammer's Damning of OAuth After a Decade of Practice (2012) - ¡APIcryphal! 02
"Anyone Who Doesn't Do This Will Be Fired."
Lessons from the Bezos' API Mandate Memo (2002) - ¡APIcryphal! 01