"Going from Web Page to Web Platform is a big deal."
ProgrammableWeb and the Maturation of API Discovery (2005-2023) - ¡APIcryphal! 09
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¡APIcryphal! Storied Insights
True(ish) stories from APIs' past to inform and guide APIs' future.
Getting Developers to "Gush About How Much They Love the API"
Danielle Morrill, Twilio's API, and The Evolution of Developer First Marketing. (2009-2012) - ¡APIcryphal! 08
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
"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